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.”