Welcome, darling dears, to another Tuesday instalment of #TutuTuesday! It's time for a whirl through the wonderous history of ballet tutus!
Well, good heavens! It's absolutely thrilling to be back with you, my loves! How are my beautiful readers doing? I know that some of you are dying to know what's happening in our lovely little corner of the fashion world. It is just absolutely divine. Today we are off on another glamorous adventure! Let's grab our bags and pack up all our finest fashion for a little jaunt to the gorgeous capital of fashion: Paris!
Today I'm writing this blog from a luxurious first-class compartment on the Orient Express! As always, I couldn't travel without my favourite pink tutu. It's oh-so-perfectly fitted. It just tickles the train carriage when I spin, itâs just the absolute sweetest touch! The perfect little detail for our history trip, Iâd say!
Just let me show you, my beautiful ballet darlings. Itâs such a perfectly divine day, the sunshineâs streaming in! How do I know that you ask? I can see it from the windows here. I am so happy to be riding the rails towards Paris, especially when we are heading towards an amazing year of history in dance. I hope youâll come along with me, dear friends!
The very best of all is, we are on the 19th of January, and oh, it's a big day for ballet lovers! This day in the history books is a true celebration for all ballet enthusiasts! It marks a date of wonderment. Why? Because of a legendary ballet in 1858 at the prestigious ThĂ©Ăątre ImpĂ©rial de l'OpĂ©ra, oh la la! The magnificent Marie Taglioni, one of the biggest stars of ballet in the world, was celebrating an event so dazzling you might just start skipping in the streets yourselves, even in your most fabulous ordinary clothes! Yes, you heard me right, Marie Taglioni is celebrating the 25th anniversary of a role which literally launched the career of all ballet dancers â La Sylphide. This very same day, Marie, a breathtakingly brilliant star who was truly iconic, performed her role for the last time before she left the stage for the final time, and it was at the grand ThĂ©Ăątre ImpĂ©rial de l'OpĂ©ra. I absolutely adored her ballet shoes! Iâd love to see those on the Parisian streets sometime!
I just know Iâd love the ballet of La Sylphide, just for the tutus! I know many people don't quite understand, but a ballet like La Sylphide needs a fantastically magnificent tutu, wouldnât you agree?
Now then! Before we go into more details on that fantastic date and tutu. Letâs have a good gander into the wonderful world of tutus. Let me give you a little peek into how much has been happening in the past!
Today I'm giving my sweethearts the opportunity to peek into a world where all the tutus are designed for absolute perfection! They say everythingâs gone into ârevolutionizing the feminine idealâ, in ballet â well that's certainly true and, as we know, a true delight for us tutudancing girls! Iâm quite pleased about that. A **tutuâs going to help give the ballerina a new body shape â oh, so divine. So much lighter!
Before tutus in ballet became so spectacular, so revolutionary. They were made from really stiff fabric which stopped the ballerina from, as I call it, âtutuâingâ at their full potential, meaning all that fabulous movement and incredible leg work and ooh, how the tutus twirl and turn, oh my dear friends! No wonder, those tutus look so wonderfully un-tutulike to us! The dance became really, really different for ballet! There are more twirls and there is even more potential for some fancy legwork! It's not just how a ballet dancer tutus herself â although we all like to have a peek, that really counts. Itâs the extraordinary, revolutionary idea behind tutus, a real statement! If the skirt didn't change shape â so fast â it wouldnât give us a perfect âsilhouetteâ * which just shows you, *darling readers **thereâs no other garment thatâs as captivating.
Think of how all our sweet ballerinas mustâve been thrilled at this! An âextra-specialâ change. When ballerinas began to put their feet firmly into those soft tutusts in the 19th century, how wonderful it must have been! It made everything change in the wonderful ballet world, as I say, tutues are a truly sensational change.
Of course the other fantastic part about this change is a new era in ballet. A bit like me âtaking time travel to the future, as a *tutu enthusiast, I simply canât leave home without one, so you wonât see me anywhere without one, darling readerâs, not in all the fashion of our day! I really am obsessed by the perfect pink tutu! Well, I do want everyone to know we â all us â have really started to look to ânew heightsâ* with fashion! Yes, fashionâs changed too! There's no doubt, you wonât ever, ever be able to miss *what *I call the tutu style. And there's simply so much âromanceâ about this new way for ballerinas to use tutus in ballet - donât you think it just oozes fashion-loving fun, dear friends?
You are all welcome to come and have fun, we are after all creating * a fabulous *tutu trend which goes from ballet to the streets. If there are some fabulous designs in balletâs tutu history - oh my darling friends! It was so different a few years before all these fab tutu ideas. When dancers performed, I was just a little girl, just dreaming of getting a wonderful pink tutu! I remember how they almost got us on to that super, fabulous high note in dance. Just how the fabulous fashion of the * tutu had so little movement â and then BAM, just like that, the revolutionary dance change! * It was a ballet revolution which just brought us a *fabulous style thatâs *absolutely divine.
Yes, yes I hear you my lovely ballet enthusiasts! We just love that change, you donât need to tell me darling dears. I think all my gorgeous little readers can probably hear it, can't you? The ballet and the tutus themselves have so much drama. Oh! Itâs as if they can speak to you! In fact, Iâm sure they do, itâs my opinion! And why wouldnât they want to shout it from the roof tops! I mean, have you seen the way a ballerina just moves those tutus! I just love when I go and see a live ballet show and see my favourite ballet dancers just spinning around â they always remind me I just love this tutu life!
And so we move along. On the 19th of January 1858 â our date of joy - Marie Taglioni performed in this exquisite role, she had her audience enthralled! As you all know darling readers, she was an inspiration for so many ballerinas in the past! The very very special extra thing, if I may just tell you this delicious little secret â this *was *a big, huge ballet history milestone. Canât you see? The * *tutues,* yes! * The * *tutues! * Those are the absolute key to a super, fabulous ballet! This very special role was *La Sylphide, and it made a huge statement, it's simply brilliant! This little darling had an iconic tutu, just so perfect! That one tutu â well, it was so iconic, oh, and it made the dancing very light and bouncy and soft â well all just like itâs should be darling readers! I hope we can bring you all up to date, this very tutu is very special to me â but maybe you can make it so very special to you â oh my dear friends! Just come back here to the fabulous Pink-Tutu website â the home of my Tutu Tuesday and my ballet blogs.
I just think that in all the fabulous history of tutus, and let me tell you, dear readers, itâs * *oh, so interesting and fab you just cannot overlook this little darling. Now if you'll excuse me, itâs time for me to go shopping for more âperfect tutues* for this very tutu lover ! It would be so great if you could *all try some *tutues. Iâd just adore to hear your opinions darling friends! Now Iâm off to see the Ballet Russes, my dear sweet readers! Come back and see what I have to tell you about next Tuesday! Oh my sweet friends, I will miss you! Au revoir!
[Image of Emma in her pink tutu.]
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