When I went to my first milonga, wearing jeans and dance sneakers, I felt a bit out of place… At the same time, as a beginner, I spent most of it admiring other tangueras: they had amazing shoes (I immediately decided my dance sneakers would no longer accompany me to a second milonga) and wore clothes that really complemented their moves.
From then on, whenever I saw an item in a store that resembled me of a tango move, I could not resist to buy it. Unfortunately (or not! ;), sometime after, that was no longer enough for me so, as soon as I started to sew, my very first pieces were tango ones.