1986 Skate America Exhibition (to 99 Luft Balloons!)
1986 Skate America Long Program
1987 Nationals (no video?) (source: The Oregonian)
1989 Skate America exhibition to the Dirty Dancing song, I’ve Had The Time of My Life. She won Skate America that year wearing her 1986 dress, and skating to the Batman soundtrack.
1990 NHK Trophy , long program
1990 NHK Trophy, short program.
GIRL. This is my favorite dress so far. It is rainbows.
She also wore it in a 1991 commercial for the Olympics on CBS.
1990 U.S. Nationals, long program.
1990 U.S. Nationals, short program ( I think this is slightly different from her 1989 dress?)
To me, this is THE Tonya Harding dress. It’s the one she wore when she did her Triple Axel. She beat Kristi Yamaguchi at her peak!
1991 Skate America short program I also think this is around the time she debuted the gold blades.
Also, her practicing in this amazing outfit:
1992 Pro-Am Figure Skating Challenge, short program
Yup, this was around the time her stupid husband made her tack Gillooly onto her last name. I feel like, if Tonya didn’t get involved with Jeff, things would’ve been different. Her skating began to suffer after she married him.
1992 Pro-Am Figure Skating Challenge, long program.
1993 Skate America, excuse me SUDAFED Skate America, short program.
1993 Sudafed Skate America, exhibition.
I believe she wore this in the long program too. This was the infamous dress that broke in a middle of a performance.
Her Jurassic Park performance, probably her most well known dress as well.
So, this lady in a town near me designed a dress for Tonya and sent it to her shortly before the 1994 Olympics, free of charge:
Local bridal designer Cindy Winn had long awaited Wednesday’s Nancy Kerrigan vs. Tonya Harding skating matchup – but for different reasons than most of the television viewing audience.
Winn, who lives in Smithfield, was hoping Harding would wear the outfit she had custom-made for her. Winn rushed to finish the outfit in 48 hours because a producer from the TV show “American Journal” told her Harding wanted to wear the outfit for Wednesday’s technical program.
Instead, the skater wore the same red sequined costume she did at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit – where Kerrigan was attacked.
Winn was disappointed to hear Harding chose not to wear her dress, which Winn values at $6,600, on Wednesday night.
“I hope this means she’ll wear it on Friday for the long program,” Winn said. “I know Tonya received the dress and she liked it.”
Sally Bracks, assignment editor for “Inside Edition” and “American Journal,” said Wednesday that Harding received Winn’s outfit late Tuesday night.
“She thinks the dress is very nice, but we don’t know if she’s going to wear it,” Bracks said.
Winn’s outfit was picked up by a courier service at 1:30 p.m. on Monday and was flown out of Norfolk International Airport to New York’s LaGuardia Airport and then on to Norway.
Winn, after watching an “American Journal” segment contrasting Kerrigan’s and Harding’s skating outfits, made an offer to the skater on Friday to make her a skating outfit free of charge.
Winn was able to reach Harding in Norway on Friday with the help of “Inside Edition” and “American Journal,” two tabloid TV shows owned by KingWorld Productions. The skater told “American Journal” that she wanted Winn to make her a white costume with “a touch of gold.”
Winn spoke with Harding on Saturday and said the skater seemed touched by her offer.
“She was really gracious and thankful,” Winn said after talking to the skater. “She sounded very genuine.” 1
If memory serves me correct, the dress was white? Very poufy. There’s no photo of it online, and I couldn’t find the American Journal interview.
As we know, Tonya didn’t wear the outfit, she wore her red dress from 1993 for the short program, and this burgundy number for the long program at the Olympics where her skate lace broke:
Obviously, this was the last time she skated in a competition.
in 1999, Tonya tried to get into the pro field, and skated in one pro competition.
As far as I know, that’s the last time she skated.
1. Finnegan, Tara, “Area Designer’s Blue That Tonya Wore Red,” Daily Press, FEbruary 24, 1994. http://articles.dailypress.com/1994-02-24/news/9402240055_1_wednesday-s-technical-program-tonya-harding-long-program
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