Wednesday, June 05, 2013

2009 Calendar #97 (From Buckles)


French aerialist Jules Leotard inventor of the leotard, 1860s.

2 comments:

JACKIE said...

I had heard it before, but it is interesting to have it repeated as for many years I just thought it was some costume shop in Manhattan.

Roger Smith said...

In an intense speech to Tomas Gomez, as Bouglione, in TRAPEZE, Burt Lancaster reminds the owner that, "Leotard invented the trapeze, on this circus, a hundred years ago." The writers had Burt fairly close on the trapeze invention, and Leotard's tights took his name from the beginning.