Cancan dress
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Can-can dresses are historically worn during the can-can
dance.
The clothing worn during cancan dances could vary a bit, but the general style of clothing is the same. The main idea is that the dresses should be full of frills and ruffles, and be multilayered.
In the production notes for the play LOST IN TUMBLEROCK or, They Took the Wrong Road..., the costumes for "The French Cancan Dancers" is thus: "They wear colorful cancan dresses in different colourswith lots of ruffles and frills on their petticoats and pantalets, ankle boots and dark pantyhose or fishnets with ruffled garters. They should have a variety of individual accessories : hats, gloves, caped, shawls, , wraps, boas, jewelry, feathers". The play was set in the 1890s.
In Celebrities' Most Wanted, a dress "not unlike a can-can dancer's dress" was describes as "short and bustled in the front, flowing into a long bustled train of messy black and white fabric in the back"
The women wore split knickers.
For the number "Zidler's Rap (The Can-Can)" in the film Moulin Rouge, direstor Baz Luhrman redesigned the can-can dresses into multi-coloured flower patterns, to make the otherwise boring dresses sexually tantalising to modern day audiences.
Can-can
The can-can is a high-energy and physically demanding music hall dance, traditionally performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings...
dance.
The clothing worn during cancan dances could vary a bit, but the general style of clothing is the same. The main idea is that the dresses should be full of frills and ruffles, and be multilayered.
In the production notes for the play LOST IN TUMBLEROCK or, They Took the Wrong Road..., the costumes for "The French Cancan Dancers" is thus: "They wear colorful cancan dresses in different colourswith lots of ruffles and frills on their petticoats and pantalets, ankle boots and dark pantyhose or fishnets with ruffled garters. They should have a variety of individual accessories : hats, gloves, caped, shawls, , wraps, boas, jewelry, feathers". The play was set in the 1890s.
In Celebrities' Most Wanted, a dress "not unlike a can-can dancer's dress" was describes as "short and bustled in the front, flowing into a long bustled train of messy black and white fabric in the back"
The women wore split knickers.
For the number "Zidler's Rap (The Can-Can)" in the film Moulin Rouge, direstor Baz Luhrman redesigned the can-can dresses into multi-coloured flower patterns, to make the otherwise boring dresses sexually tantalising to modern day audiences.