  Isospin one vector mesons (in particular the $\rho$) are usually described as
massive Yang-Mills particles in the chiral Lagrangian. We investigate some
aspects of an alternative approach in the soliton sector. It is found that the
soliton is stable in very much the same way as with the $\omega$-meson and that
spontaneous parity violating classical solutions do not exist. The formulation
in terms of antisymmetric tensors is shown to be canonically related to a
vector field description provided the Skyrme term is added to the latter.
