Dita von Teese has lovely concepts, and scrumptious costumes, but she always leaves me wanting more. I suppose that's the point, of course, but...I mean...in an interview, she was once asked whether she had been influenced by vintage strippers. She said that she was influenced by still pin-up images of the 1940s and '50s, but that the moving pictures of the time struck her as amateurish. The influence is clear in her performances, as she gracefully moves through a series of poses. Still as someone who loves dancing (both watching and, in my own, amateurish way, doing), I can't help but feel teased by the toe shoes that she uses for a first-rate sashay, but no actual dancing. And not necessarily teased in a good way.
Of course, I suppose I might as well cry over a butter cookie that it's not a tequila sunrise. Sure, it's not, but it's a damned good cookie, and that counts for something.
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