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Begging for leggings: looks to get you moving.


When fashion meets function, the result is leggings leg·ging  
n.
1. A leg covering usually extending from the ankle to the knee and often made of material such as leather or canvas, worn especially by soldiers and workers.

2. leggings
a.
! You can wear them to any type of dance class or right on the street. Meredith Dincolo of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago This article or section is written like an .
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 lives in hers. "They're durable," says Meredith. "They're thicker than tights and don't require a lot of special care." Leggings offer a tighter fit than jazz pants so they're useful when you don't want fabric in your way. "Sometimes we wear practice skirts and I have leggings on underneath," says Meredith. "If I were wearing jazz pants I might step on them." Try layering your favorite pieces over them. Scrunched up legwarmers with leggings will keep you warm in a cold studio. Need to make a bold statement? Pair a simple leotard with hot pink or zebra-striped ones. Throw a baggy sweotshirt over some and you're ready for the street. There are a variety of styles available: Stirrup stirrup, foot support for the rider of a horse in mounting and while riding. It is a ring with a horizontal bar to receive the foot and is attached by a strap to the saddle. , capri length, ankle length--whatever you want! Here are our favorites (with their suggested retail prices). Your legs won't be able to resist them.

Bal Togs #808; $27 baltog.com

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Bloch #P2513; $55 blochworld.com

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Capezio #9478; $21 capeziostore.com

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Leos Dancewear dance·wear  
n.
Clothing such as leotards and warmup suits that are worn for dance practice and exercising.
 #15-19; $22.50 leosdancewear.com

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Stars Dancewear #0355MZ; $27 starsdancewear.net

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Ellswear $49 ellswear.com

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Liberts #8174; $21.95 liberts.com

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Pumpers Dancewear #501ST; $31 pumpers.com

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Body Wrappers In data mining and treatment learning, wrappers were used by Ron Kohavi and George John. Their idea was to wrap their treatments learners in a preprocessor that would search to make subsets from the current set of attributes.  #321; $27 bodywrappers.com

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Danskin #9100; $24 danskin.com

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Natalie #N8274; $18.75 discountdance.com

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Eurotard #0009; $24 eurotard.com

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Carushka Bodywear #007601DEN;$28 carushka.com

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Star Styled #DW7091; $32 starstyled.com

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Mondor #1700; $36 mondor.com

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Pumpers Dancewear #501ST; $36 pumpers.com

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Photographed by Erin Baiano

Modeled by Stephanie Lebedies,

Meredith Wilson, and Ashley Johnson Ashley Suzanne Johnson (born August 9, 1983) is an American actress.

Johnson was born in Camarillo, California, daughter of Nancy (Spruiell), a writer, and Clifford Johnson, a ship's captain.
 of the Joffrey Ballet Joffrey Ballet, one of the major American dance companies. It was founded in New York City in 1954 by the dancer-choreographer Robert Joffrey. From 1956 to 1964 it made yearly tours of the United States.  School
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Author:Hanlon, Khara
Publication:Dance Magazine
Date:Feb 1, 2007
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