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She and Peter had chatted one night on B deck about the Russian dancers and Leon Bakst's designs. She had lectured Peter on the amazing beauty of strangely combined colours, mixtures which would not have been tolerated before the "Russian craze."
Some of the costumes looked as though they owed their inspiration to Bakst's designs for the Russian ballet or perhaps Bakst obtained his ideas in Djokjakarta; others were strongly reminiscent of Louis XIV's era, of the courts of the great Indian princes, of the Ziegfeld Follies. The procession was led by four peasant women bearing trays of vegetables and fruits, symbols of fecundity, I assumed.
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