I was just wondering do they make ballroom dance shoes u can wear to a....?

Club??? Im gona strat takin salsa classes, and if I want to go practice at a club.. well u know people drink drinks to the dance floor and spill it everywhere. Do they make some kind of special salsa or ballroom shoes for this, that u can easily clean??? Especially if its not suede on the bottom?? I just wondered. If not then what could I wear???

I was just wondering do they make ballroom dance shoes u can wear to a....?
Spilled drinks ruin the soles of dance shoes. Most ballroom dance shoes have suede soles, and that is a problem. If suede gets wet, it takes a long time to rehabilitate.





I would suggest shoes with the hard leather sole. They won't get damaged like suede soled shoes.





I won't go so far as to suggest character shoes (which are relatively inexpensive but have leather soles), however, if you are going to a club to dance, you want to wear something stylish. If you find that leather soled shoes are too expensive for your budget, have a shoe repair shop glue leather soles onto your existing shoes.
Reply:Hey, I tried searching for you, but it proves to be difficult even for me. Leather sole is unusual for ballroom shoes. I think your best option is to call several dance shoe stores and ask them this question. They deal with shoes for years on the regular basis. Try this store: http://bdsweb.ballroom.com/BDSMall.htm


His website isn't that great but I've been to his store (local to my area). He carries a lot of salsa and tango shoes, along with typical ballroom shoes. Give him a call and ask if he has anything with leather sole. Here is a couple more stores that I've ordered from:


http://www.ballroomconnection.com


Worldtone Music, NY (look them up with search engine)


These people know a lot about different brands of shoes.





Another option is to get the suede soled shoes and accept the fact that they will get soiled. I wear my old ballroom shoes with suede sole to salsa clubs. I treat them like normal shoes, except I don't walk on asphalt and don't step in the mud. The sole doesn't fall apart or anything, it just gets all shiny, doesn't look like suede anymore, and it loses the proper ballroom performance. But since it's my old shoes I'm not going to bring then back to a ballroom studio. To note: I threw away at least 6 pairs of worn out shoes, but none of them had a worn-out sole. It is the upper part that goes first, even after I "mistreated" the suede sole at salsa clubs.
Reply:I had suede soled ballroom shoes get trashed in a club, too.





For bar-dancing, stick to a leather (smooth) sole. Pay attention to balance and security. Whatever shoes you dance in should stay securely on your feet -- ankle straps are key in most ballroom shoes. Look at where the heel is positioned -- ballroom shoes have the heel further forward under the foot for stability, and also have a steel shank (under the arch, again for support and stability).





As an alternative, look for ballroom shoes on eBay or elsewhere used, and make this pair 'just' for club dancing (or reserve your oldest pair). If you can't resist and wear 'good' ballroom shoes to the club, use the wire brush to scrub up the suede later. I've extended the life of my shoes doing this.
Reply:Hey BT--I see you're still looking. I'll tell you what I told my gf when she started getting interested in dancing. You can buy normal shoes with leather soles. You want something with a back, in my opinion, and with an open toe (not just for style but practically because you'll get more blisters dancing in closed-toe shoes). When I went dancing with my gf Friday night, she wore the street shoes we'd found for her--they were very cute and very sexy, and after like an hour, her toes were pretty much on fire! So now, she's looking for a dance shoe....





That said, yes, clubs can ruin the bottom of a suede soled shoe. There are spilled drinks and spilled Lord only knows what on some of those floors. IF you're lucky enough to be on a wood floor. A lot of them are concrete, and they will tear up the soles of your shoes also. What I do when I go to a club is just take an old pair of ballroom shoes, I don't care about the soles anymore.





The truth is, you won't be able to dance in dance shoes and maintain them the way you can ordinary shoes. So if you have that shoe fetish that so many girls have, you just have to resign yourself to messing up your beautiful new dance shoes. To me, the wear and tear on a dance shoe shows how seriously someone takes it--it's a great dancer who has a closet full of ruined shoes!





Once you're in a typical club, you'll find that spilled drinks are the least of your worries. The floor is a minefield, where you may get stepped on (especially by other women in heels, which trust me, really hurts), or an especially fun thing for women dancing in clubs, get hot cigarette ash flicked on your toes (resulting in a typically hilarious impromptu happy dance of your own). So your leather soles will be the least of your worries.





Good luck, then, and may the Force be with you!
Reply:if its a sexy shoe with a heel that you want then look for something that has a strap down the top of the foot. it stabilizes better. in your salsa class, they can point you in the right direction



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