| 词汇 | leotards |
| 词源 | leotards. We owe this word to 19th-century French aerialist Jules Léotard, who claimed in his Mémoires to have invented the outfit still worn by circus performers. Originally the cos- tume was a one-piece elastic garment, snug-fitting and low at the neck and sleeveless. Leotard, born to the circus—when he was a baby, his aerialist parents would hang him upside down from a trapeze bar to stop his crying—intended his costume for men, not women. “Do you want to be adored by the ladies?” he exhorts his male readers in his Mémoires. “[Then] put on a more natural arb, which does not hide your best features!” Léo- tard, billed as “The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze,” died of smallpox in 1870 when only 28. |
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