she's a real go back to nineteen forty's
glam performing the arts of her lesson
from paris to la peas and feathers over
pasties and feathers are always so fun
join us now the beautiful real life for
us for us for less these feathers e now
you are also now I did a paid
spokesperson for Cointreau which is
perfect because you did you do the Marty
it's an iconic French brand very
sophisticated and so it's a been a real
pleasure to be their spokesperson how
did you get into burlesque I worked in a
lingerie store when I was in high school
as a teenager and I became really
interested in what kind of lingerie
women wore throughout history and I
discovered this fascination with 40s and
50s lingerie and it sort of led me to
looking at pinup pictures and I
discovered that most of the pinups of
the 40's were actually burlesque dancers
because those are kind of women it would
pose for those those kinds of magazines
and so they would promote themselves by
you know posing in lingerie and promote
their their burlesque shows so you went
the other way with it you went in from
the looking at those pictures - but I
just became really enthralled with
everything the glamour of that era and I
I was amazed to find that there were
these icons of striptease and they
performed in burlesque shows and I was
very intrigued by the idea of a time
when striptease was something elegant
and that you had great stars like Gypsy
Rose Lee and Sally Rand and I'm just I
love the idea of making something too
risque sophisticated what do you think
now because usually when you heard the
word striptease now it's a little more
of a negative connotation to it club
I've always liked the word you know
Gypsy Rose Lee who is the greatest
stripper of all time she likes the word
stripper and she was you know famous in
Paris you know but she made films she
hosted TV shows and she there
ever mind standing for standing up for
the strippers of the world you know it's
not a bad word how do you feel about
full TV you don't strip all the way down
and you strip down to the classic the
way that burlesque was performed in
America in the 1930s and 40s which was
pasties and g-strings a little bit here
a little bit there
how long does it take you to get ready
this morning I had a spectacular timing
I woke up and I was ready in 47 minutes
and I just thought I wrote that down and
decided that was an all-time record
unbelievable this is the beginning day a
good two hours it takes me a lot but you
mentioned interested in this in high
school which you have a high school
picture of you look at you there with
your blonde hair so cute Heather Renee
sweet right there oh my gosh look at
that
how old are you there seventeen
seventeen so let's take a look at some
of these things here what is it ray
well this is a project that I made with
Cointreau and it comes with martini
glasses and everything you need to make
that it makes a fabulous cocktail but
basically I wanted it to be something
that you could use as a jewel box and
keep your secrets in there this little
secret compartment here in the back
whatever you want to keep secret but I
put some things in here like my
stationery for writing love letters from
my jewelry perfume powder compacts a
picture of Sally Rand who at the famous
fan dancer from the 1930s who performed
buck naked with just a pair of ostrich
feather fans at the 1939 World's Fair
and so I brought some feather fans today
you must have one little ode to Sally
Rand I love this little makeup compact
with the US Navy on them yes that was
something that you could buy if you were
a soldier you could send this back to
your sweetheart in the 40s during the
war
see you in high school when you became
intern this what did your friends think
about this it's definitely a little
unusual well you know I worked in a
lingerie store and I just you know I
dress differently than a lot of other
girls whatever bet I had a best friend
who liked to dress in vintage too so we
kind of stuck together and you know I
wasn't performing striptease in high
school I turned 18 before I was before
you did that yes
no kids husband has been on the road for
a little while he just came home if she
wanted to put on a little program
tonight would you suggest she do this
can we learn a little feather dancing
here sure okay well do we need to tell
her first I'm a very bad bad dancers
maybe you start there are three sets of
feathers there's three sets of feathers
Billy get your Fanny up I'm gonna give
you the blue ones since this is your
right hand okay and this is your left we
have some music thank you okay
I don't think there's a room for three
of us you guys okay don't forget you're
naked okay we're naked gonna startle you
want to start by covering yourself
having a little mysterious I usually
start by opening up one yeah
and covering myself with that one okay
we're gonna open
it's actually hard yeah you can think
you've got a feather on your feather
mustache the trick was is it well but
you want to you want to you know kind of
cover yourself with the fans and so just
your buddy
I love the mole on your cheek either
because anything that's a tattoo right
it is yes it's not a real mole I love it
it is now so one thing you'd probably do
is you would you know take both fans in
one hand okay and then you would take
your bra underneath those fans I mean
this is a true art for my face okay
we're still covering and then one of my
favorite reveals is does the impossible
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