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What do you do when one of the most famous tutus in the world needs a glow up? Just ask The Met’s Glenn Petersen, Conservator at The Costume Institute who worked to update the real cloth tutu on Degas’ beloved sculpture “The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer.” Fun Fact: Degas’s original sculpture was made of many unorthodox materials, including tinted beeswax, a human-hair wig, a cotton bodice, linen ballet slippers, and tarlatan tutu. Curators at The Met have replaced the fabric skirt at least th

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