Sunday August 30, 2009 10:50 pm
Dita Von Teese’s Flashing Fear
Dancer Dita Von Teese has to pay close attention to the items she wears during her burlesque performances. Otherwise, more flesh may be exposed than planned. To guarantee her crystal-decorated breast accessories don’t slip out of place, she turns to adhesives. “I use serious waterproof glue, because I’m in a martini glass. Crystals are heavy and there’s a lot going on,” Dita explained.
The 36-year-old’s favorite routine has her pouring water over her near-naked body from a foam olive while sitting in a giant martini glass. “I’ve got a shower of water going down from the olive, so I’ve got to have something serious. I can’t afford to lose a nipple tassel during my show,” she described.
Dita - whose ex-husband is goth rocker Marilyn Manson - first decided on her chosen career as a teenager. “My obsession with underwear is how I ended up becoming a burlesque performer and a pin-up model,” she recalled. “I worked in a lingerie store when I was a teenager. I wanted to know the history of lingerie, so I started looking at 30’s and 40’s lingerie and that’s how I discovered the pin-ups from that era. I wanted to be photographed like a pin-up.”
Von Teese proves that it’s possible to combine work with something you enjoy. “I started working in a strip club at the same time as working in the lingerie store, and I thought this was like another opportunity for me to wear my lingerie, and have fun playing dress-up.”
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