Raising Future Adults

"Jump, Jive an' Wail" is a 1956 jazz swing song by Louis Prima. The above video is for the cover of the song from the 1998 album The Dirty Boogie by The Brian Setzer Orchestra. I'm not that musical and not that knowledgeable about dance styles. The dance style is most likely swing dancing, which dates to the era of the original song, and the outfits in the video look 1950s-inspired, though likely updated rather than authentic or reproduction . I have managed to find one old black-and-white photo (out of many) of a female swing dancer in shorts, but most seem to have worn dresses that went below the knee. Swing dancing could be fairly athletic, though I'm guessing this video version is more athletic than was generally true for "average" people having a night on the town. I am very fond of the video because it's like a nutshell version of some aspect of my childhood. It makes me somewhat nostalgic for when I was a little girl ...