There are a range of items commonly worn by dancers and known as dancewear. The types of dancing covered by the term dancewear include ballet, urban dance, and tap dancing. Dancewear items are also worn by other types of performer, such as acrobats, circus performers and some rock musicians. Certain types of dancewear have also become popular as fashion items with the general public.

It seems that barely a day goes by without a new club, bar or restaurant opening in central London. A friend of mine who gets invited to lots of these events because of his job as a reviewer told me that he could easily attend up to 10 events a night if he wanted to, such is the deluge of invites and press releases that arrive on his desk on a daily basis. The fierce competition for valuable press coverage and publicity means that the people who organize these events have to constantly come up with new and innovative ways to make their venue stand out from the crowd. Often this equates to ever more lavish supplies of free food and drink, but my friend reckons that the thing that critics such as him always remember is good entertainment. In fact, he attended an event recently where the quality of the entrees paled into insignificance next to the impression caused by the dancers and their dance wear.