So glad you enjoyed the music! I'm sorry, I just realized why it might be difficult to understand. You live in in a place where everyone travels by car. Roads in downtown Tokyo are crazy. Narrow, crowded and very hard to find parking. Most people travel by train. I guess groups could rent a bus, but because this is a Tokyo festival, all sIngers live in Tokyo. It is cheaper and more reliable to use public transportation.
Otherwise the formal wear - our dresses anyway, are long flowing evening gowns that would be very difficult to wear even driving a car. It would be like driving with a wedding dress on. We travelled a short distance by taxi and it was quite enough.
Most singers here will usually take the clothing to the concert hall and dress there. I thought that was pretty standard worldwide. I guess none of the other groups thought of getting dressed at another location close by like we did.
Some womens groups wore nice blouses and skirts, like one would wear to church. We did similar things before making our dresses. Not too formal for train travel.
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Date: 2022-08-01 03:41 am (UTC)I'm sorry, I just realized why it might be difficult to understand. You live in in a place where everyone travels by car. Roads in downtown Tokyo are crazy. Narrow, crowded and very hard to find parking. Most people travel by train. I guess groups could rent a bus, but because this is a Tokyo festival, all sIngers live in Tokyo. It is cheaper and more reliable to use public transportation.
Otherwise the formal wear - our dresses anyway, are long flowing evening gowns that would be very difficult to wear even driving a car. It would be like driving with a wedding dress on. We travelled a short distance by taxi and it was quite enough.
Most singers here will usually take the clothing to the concert hall and dress there. I thought that was pretty standard worldwide. I guess none of the other groups thought of getting dressed at another location close by like we did.
Some womens groups wore nice blouses and skirts, like one would wear to church. We did similar things before making our dresses. Not too formal for train travel.