Why the girl with the orange tights?

Mainly because I own a rather big collection of leggings and tights, and the ones I have been seen with mostly at bullfights are my orange tights.

I remember one time, last year, on the 6th of March of 2011, where I wore my orange tights. It was the first real day of Spring time, and we decided to go to Rodilhan to see a Festival Taurin with Marc Serrano, Marco Leal and Cayetano Ortiz. It’s a really small arena in Rodilhan, and I think we must’ve been about 200/250 people there.

It was a little rally for the “La Clé” organisation, for charity. This organisation does things for heavily sick children, and one of their godfathers is Marc Serrano, and he had promised to do something in order to raise some money for the charity.

We went there, and didn’t expect much. It was a normal little Festival, in a small crowd. It was nice.
They fought against Novillos, which are 3 year old bulls, and who are not as heavy as the normal Toros Bravos they use in your regular bullfight (those bulls have to be at least 4 years old in order to fight).
Marc Serrano cut one ear of his Patrick Laugier bull, and, for Marco Leal, things got different.
Things weren’t supposed to be magnificent, it was just supposed to be this cosy nice festival, the first one, to kick off the season. Marco Leal was granted the Grace of the Bull - the Indulto. That happens on rare occasions, where the bull shows courage, nobility and strength during the fight. It means, that he didn’t kill the bull, and that it walked out of the bullring alive. And, with the honours, because when a bull receives the Indulto, it becomes a semental, which is one of the reproduction males of the ganaderia - the breeding farm they came from.

Now, you probably wonder what the Orange has to do with this nice and little story. The President of the Fight has 5 handkerchiefs he can use to communicate with during the fight - white, green, blue, orange and red. The color of the handkerchief which signifies the Indulto is the Orange one. So, I thought it was a sign that I was wearing the Orange tights and that this bull was saved by its strength.

Cayetano Ortiz cut the 2 ears from his bull.

But, since that day, I’ve always been smiling whenever I pulled my orange tights on. Because they have a certain meaning, that came true on that special day, one year ago.

That’s why I chose to call this blog The Girl With the Orange Tights.