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strange way of holding hands when dancing


I've seen that in other early movies. There was apparently a fashion of the man holding the woman's hand from the end rather than side by side. I wonder when that started, and why.

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I'm thinking it was maybe considered less intimate. They held them basically in the same positioning that they would if shaking hands in greeting, whereas holding them together palm to palm might be considered too close for propriety.


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