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You all really don't know the origin of the "Dollar Dance" ?????? Please check with your Sociology or Cultural Anthropology departments to confirm what follows. This is NOT meant to be an inappropriate comment but rather an historically accurate comment. It has to do with a very ancient Middle Eastern custom that spread to Eastern Europe and some other areas. Centuries ago, when the bride came from a not so wealthy family she could not marry until she had a dowery to bring to the marriage. The dowery was raised by her participation in the "Oldest Profession" and the Dollar Dance, or Apron Dance, or Basket Dance where money is given to the bride in exchange for the privelege of "dancing" with her is a sanitized symbolic reference to that long ago custom of raising her dowery.
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