Do women have to wear white skates in figure skating?

As an elegant sport that inherits the tradition of ballroom dancing in the upper class of Europe, flower skating is particularly different from men and women. The tradition of flower skating is that men wear black skates and women wear white skates, which is as natural for flower skaters as we dress boys in blue and girls in pink. Are there any exceptions? Yes, the only exception I remember is that in the short dance of Rachel Parsons/Michael Parsons, the champion group of the Ice Dance World Youth Championship last season, Rachel broke the previous convention and wore black skates. But in this program, Rachel played a neutral role, so she chose this dress. In the free dance, she changed back to white skates. And her attempt is inseparable from the external condition that this season's short dance selection is a combination of blues+hip hop or swing music.

Aside from external factors such as song selection rules, Rachel will break the traditional gender concept in the flower slip, and I am not surprised to make such a choice. She is a player I admire very much, not only as a flower skater, but also as a brave and socially responsible young man. As I said when I answered Nathan Chen's song selection yesterday, skaters certainly have political correctness, and the most important thing is tolerance for homosexuals, ethnic minorities and immigrants. /kloc-After the American election in 0/6, Rachel, as a promising young athlete, risked offending some viewers and even sponsors, and took to the streets more than once, standing in front of authority, speaking for the weak, speaking for justice, and publicly protesting the hatred and ignorance brought by Trump. She is such an excellent player with courage, social responsibility and sense of justice.