- Title: Wearing “Flair” to a Swim Meet
- Informant: Sierra Levene, 19, Female. Sierra grew up in Wyoming and currently attends Dartmouth College where she is a freshman. She just began swimming competitively on the Dartmouth College Club swim team this year. When interviewed, Sierra discussed various aspects of swimming that were difficult to understand when she first joined the swim team.
- Material: Clothing, Customary: Tradition
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States
- Social / Cultural Context: The team wears “flair” to their swim meets, which is crazy/ unique clothing. They do this at club meet competitions, like when they competed at Harvard this past year.
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- “The meet I went to we had a cheer, and also we all wore flair and no one else did. So like the entire meet, our section area or whatever, everyone was wearing flair”
- Informant’s comments: Sierra thought that wearing flair was something unique their team did and really set them apart from other teams.
- Collector’s comments: Although not common among all types of competitive swimming, this is one piece of folklore we found that was very unique within club swimming.
- Tags/Keywords: Flair, Material
Wearing “Flair”
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