Ballet costumes

Alicias Raymonda variation tutu. For the bodice I used a vintage fantasy brocade and satin and I decorated it Karinska style with large rhinestones. I discovered that it is better to use large ones because they are seen best from a far.
Cute short powder puff tutu with invisible hoop. The short tutu is best to show off the legs but look ridiculous on someone with too long or those ugly hyperextensive legs.
Nowadays tutus are too long and too flat for my liking. Recently found out that tutus are made longer than normal to compensate the distorted body proportions of dancers that lots of ballet schools and coreographers like so much now.