Cutting from a scrapbook created by Gilbert Barker: photograph of
Tamara Karsavina in the title role of Fokine’s The Firebird [L’Oiseau de
feu], 1910.
Karsavina’s costume was designed by Léon Bakst; it presented her in a
tall plumed headdress adorned with long plaits, wearing ‘harem-style’
trousers.  Photo: Bertram Park / src: Royal Ballet School

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Geiko Yachiyo with a Heian Period Hat, 1910′s
Yachiyo dressed for the Ashibe odori (Ashibe public dance), holding a travelling hat from the Heian Period.

Yachiyo (1887-1924) was a famous geiko (geisha) from Osaka, known for her elegance and her lovely personality. People were said to weep with joy at the sight of her dancing. She became a maiko (apprentice geisha) at the age of thirteen and left the profession to marry the artist Suga Tatehiko at the age of twenty-nine. / src: Blue Ruin