Before them, the tutus that could be seen in ballets were like those represented in Degas's paintings or shorter and more rigid, but for Karinska and the choreographer Balanchine the tutu had to float freely and enhance the ballerina's grace without hindering their movements so they created the "Powder Puff".
The naked look they called it and was born to stay for a long time and turned crazy everybody for good although it raised the fury of the most conservatives sectors of the society that accused the strapless dress to be indecent, a garment from Hell.
In 1911, the Qing Dynasty fell and Shanghai became what was called "the great Athens of China." The 1920s came and women broke free, cut their hair, broke the tradition of foot wrapping and adapted the male one-piece changpao for themselves, the cheongsam, and although it was the students who were driving this trend, they were the women of the upper class who made it fashionable.
The shoe history is such a bizarre and extense one, the shoe elevation has been symbol of status since ancient times and heels have been desired objects for ones and a sinful items related to witchcraft for others...
But ... why white?
Queen Victoria of England transgressed in many things and, although she was not the only one, she was who made the white wedding dress fashionable in the West.
