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A preview in the Observer 29 June 1913 noted that the costumes were ‘remarkably unconventional’ and the Daily Telegraph described Karsavina’s as ‘weird.’ Her make-up was pale ‘startling in its pallor by contrast with her mop of raven hair’, blue shadowed eyes and vermilion lips. She wore false eyelashes which she had the wig master make up for her. Indeed, in conversation with Nesta MacDonald she claimed to have invented false eyelashes. At her entrance she wore a robe with an immense train decorated with black and gold which covered the stairs as she descended slowly. On her head was high wig and headdress decorated with pearls and flowers. Once she had descended the stairs, she shed the robe into the arms of the attendants and was seen in this elaborate all-in-one closely fitted garment in brown, gold, orange and white. With black shoulder straps the costume is appliquéd with a variety of decorations and finishes with a sort of asymmetrical culottes. The white bodice was surrounded with frills leaving her breasts almost bare, with the ballerina’s nipples decorated with orange stars. It was a risqué costume for the stage in 1913 and its erotic nature further enhanced by having a rose painted on her bare thigh for each performance by designer or Baron Dmitri de Gunsberg. This extraordinary costume became iconic . It inspired Paul Poiret’s ‘Salome’ evening dress as reproduced in Gazette du Bon Ton 1914/3and featured in a cartoon by Ernest Shepard for bathing dress in Punch 27 August 1913 p.197.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Elaborate all-in-one closely fitted garment in brown, gold, orange and white. It is unconventionally constructed with an unusual combination of fabrics With black shoulder straps the costume is appliquéd with a variety of decorations and finishes with a sort of asymmetrical culottes. The left leg has a longer orange section ending in white muslin flowers. 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