tutu

"And then," she told The Breakfast Club, "I went to school in a tutu and I started doing music."

The tutu — it’s a tulle skirt, actually – was Field’s way of presenting an alternative to sweatpants.

Then you go in, and there’s a lot of other little kids, and you’re all wearing tutus — that’s how they get you.

She was in the John Lewis store in Brent Cross, west London with her children to find a leotard, tutu and tights for her three-year-old daughter Emily, who was about to start ballet lessons.

Ruble’s newfound affinity for ballet is part of a wider trend of adults who, after donning tights and tutus in their youth, are now returning to ballet studios in adulthood.