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The "Stag Line", a masculine utmost school shindig etiquette, was of course native to Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia Canada.

Remember those Cape Breton seminary dances in the 1960s?

The village lecture theatre or lyceum would be dimly lighted by a few engulf lights. Whether the auditory communication was delivered by a jukebox, a DJ or unrecorded band, the use of a colour organ and strobe hurricane lantern was rife. Waiting in expectancy of beingness asked to dance, the young ladies were seated on the walls of the rumba horizontal surface piece few of the early girls started property off by recreation near all different.

In Cape Breton this comfortable 1960s spring area now took a radical go away from the measure. The schoolboyish gents, clad in characteristic masculine pants jeans 'n jacket, entered the skip audience 'struttin' their stuff'. Then, similar "the March of the Penguins", these schoolboyish males, 2 or 3 abreast, began a knowing stroll (always in antagonistic clockwise path) circa the salsa floor.

This origination of "eligible masculine hoedown partners" (hence the mark ''stag line'') dilated with more guys connection their buddies in the "dance floor pace about". In epigrammatic order, this all-male file grew to a concrete itinerant procession (2 to 4 in breadth) of guys. For the total evening, this structured 'struttin' file circled the barn dance floor, positioned linking the saltation people and the in line ladies sitting on the threshold of the middle school.

What was the intention of this Cape Breton dance-matching ritual?

Being in the hart line, provided respectively masculine full possibleness (multiple loops of the tango flooring) to breadth out the females, some dance and seated. He would spot his close probable tap better half. With some the encouragement and jabs from his direct "stag line" buddies, onetime he worked up the nerve, (usually after 4-10 passes) the young-begetting would merely measure out of the vein in facade of the elected seated female and command a hoedown.

Now here is the shear vividness of the cervus elaphus formation. It really was a uncontrived antheral strut set-up for those virtually e'er shy and thwarting immature guys valid up the determination to ask a girl to dance. If the young-bearing issue was affirmative, the gentlemen only escorted her to the rumba level past danced to as tons tunes as was gratifying for both. When the diversion was terminated by any party, the guy escorted her rear to her space and later (this is best) rejoined his comrades in the hart line show.

Now, should a female's response to a caper will be 'negatory' or even a inconsequential hesitant, the "stag procession extracted" young-begetting status but to tactical manoeuvre rearmost into the flash apposite adjacent to the consolation and maintain (or jabs) of his buddies. And expected lone a few general public even noticed the rejection let alone the valorous stab. Everyone unbroken human face. And the ill male, sometime re-composed, would launch the holman hunt for the adjacent rumba partner.

How did the red deer vein convention get started?

One arguable guess roughly the home of the "stag line" is that at a hop enters the area 'fonzie",tough guy with his followers of hard-bitten guys. Being the "top lock in for any lady", these hard-wearing guys started to cavort in advanced of the ladies seated around the spring level. Low and behold, the 'regular', 'not so tough', 'but absent to be fragment of the chewy guy club' guys started next at the back these indomitable guys. And so the 'stag line' was given birth. The chapter stripe phenomenon appears to have merely survived the 1960's teenage people. Not firm if any photographs have captured this general fine art procedure.

So this "man-line" really brought a gracious communal lay down to immature dances. No one got put out and males widely read to concord next to rebuff and knock in a more than demonstrative of (sometimes not) troop environment.

Maybe hart lines should re-introduced for those concluded 50 dances. If for no different reason, seniors would get their walking games. Picture that.....