Mavs dancers’ skimpy uniforms draw international attention

We don't get all the hubbub.

Vernon Bryant

Dallas Mavericks dancers perform in one of their new looks this season.

DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks dance team has new set of uniforms this year, and — surprise! — they do not leave much to the imagination.

What is surprising, to me at least, is that the skimpiness of these outfits is drawing a lot of attention. They’ve been talked about on Yahoo!, the Huffington Post, and other U.S. sites. On what must have been a spectacularly slow news day in Los Angeles, the dancers’ new get-ups made a local news broadcast. (Video below). They’ve even made headlines across the pond. A writer for London’s Daily Mail, Louise Boyle, wonders if the new outfits “could raise some eyebrows.”

To which I say: Well, duh. That’s pretty much the whole point, right? I mean, yes, of course, they are very skimpy. But aren’t they all? Do you really see a lot of difference between this and this? I do not. Let’s all just calm down.

RobertB, anonymous:

At the game I went to on Monday (with tickets I won in a Karaoke contest), I found the dancers to be desperately in need of a sandwich platter. They had the protruding ribs of a band of Ethiopian refugees, and the permanent smiles of a toy chest full of Barbie dolls. Not a sexy combination for me... but à chacun son goût, YMMV.

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