The Tutu and the little girl

As young girls we used to dream of dressing up in our Mom’s clothes and jewelry and dancing around the room, others were a bit less flamboyant and fantasized of being a ballerina with a beautiful big tutu. Whether you were dressing up with jewels or putting on netted pettiskirts to pretend to be on the big stage, we all wanted a tutu to be the "ballerina”.

It has been said that the Tutu makes a magic circle around the Ballerina. I think most would agree that something magical happens when a little little puts on a tutu and transforms into a princess. "Swirling and Twirling, Pigtails and bows...the picture of grace from her head to her toes."

Today the tutu isn’t just for dancers or ballerinas, it is for any little girl and can be worn anywhere. Even a trip to the local grocery store can become an adventure when it includes her favorite tutu or pettiskirt!

You can have the single layered tutu, the double layered tutu and even tripled layered skirt to give that extra POOF! The more tulle and netting attached ~ the better! The bigger the skirt, the better! These beautiful girls netted skirts come in different colors and can have wires attached for the real ballerina. There are also many types of tutus, romantic style, classic style and pancake all for the serious tutu wearers. For little girls it really doesn’t matter which kind they get as long as it is big and will flow out when twirling across the living room floor! Add a precious rhinestone t-shirt and a big flower in her hair and you have the perfect outfit.

Many parents are having portraits of their girls in their tutus and or putting one on them as a newborn for that stunning portrait. Personally, I allowed my daughter to wear hers around the house, I still remember her t-shirt, tutu and her precious bare feet and those curls in her hair.

In the 1800’s Marie Camargo shortened the ballet skirts so that people could see her footwork, most disapproved but it stuck and now most ballet skirts are short. So, thank you to Marie Camargo for being a bit of a “rebel” and creating the tutu and giving every little girl the ability to be the “belle of the ball”.