tutu
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And as our little girl puts on her tutu for 3-year-old ballet class, she says, “No, momma, I don’t want to go to dance class.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
There is also a costume inspired by crinoline, the stiff or structured petticoat designed to hold out a skirt or tutu, but whimsically reimagined using neoprene.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
"And then," she told The Breakfast Club, "I went to school in a tutu and I started doing music."
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
The hat might have offended some, but otherwise, it’s a silly delight on par with the second season’s pigeon purse and that impractical tutu that defines “Sex and the City.”
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
I could tell my hair was frizzing, and my purple tutu skirt was completely rumpled.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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The choreographer asked her costume designer, Robert Perdziola, to dress her dancers in a variety of looks, with flouncy tutus for the women in her first movement and limp, longer skirts in the others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Blessedly, these ballerinas didn’t learn their skills in prison or the foster system, and their tutus are not fodder for a satanic pyre.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
In Paris, the series shot in the Palais Garnier, including inside the costume studio, where tutus famously hang from the ceiling, as well as Théâtre du Châtelet and Opéra Comique.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
Their bodies were their canvases, which they bedecked in feather boas, tutus, corsets, Victorian petticoats, Edwardian frock coats, wigs, wings, headdresses, ribbons, sequins, rhinestones, satin, face paint and an abundance of glitter.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
The woman scooped an armful of tutus from a bin and dumped them in Penelope’s arms.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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