On the face of it, purchasing ballet shoes should be a straightforward process for a professional dancer. Yet, this simply wasn't so for the likes of Eric Underwood, a black American soloist for The Royal Ballet. Exasperated with the rigamarole of painting peach-tone ballet shoes with makeup for every performance, he joined forces with the respected Australian dance shoe brand Bloch, to create what they describe to be 'the first ever flesh-tone ballet slippers for black skin'. Now, not only…
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