Can-can dresses are historically worn during the can-can dance. Whilst the actual items of clothing could vary, but the general style of clothing remained the same. The main idea was that the dresses should be full of frills and ruffles, and be multilayered. In one interpretation, for a play that was set in the 1890s, the cancan dresses were "in different colours with lots of ruffles and frills on their petticoats and pantalets...and dark pantyhose or fishnets with ruffled garters". The cancan "outfit" was also adjourned with the following accessories: "[ankle boots], hats, gloves, caped, shawls, wraps, boas, jewelry, [&] feathers".[1] The women commonly wore split knickers in their outfit.[2]In Celebrities' Most Wanted, a dress "not unlike a can-can dancer's dress" was describes as "short and bustled in the front, flowing into a long bustled train of messy black and white fabric in the back"[3] Contemporary versions of the cancan dress have appeared in various media. For example, in the number "Zidler's Rap (The Can-Can)" in the film Moulin Rouge, director Baz Luhrman redesigned the can-can dresses into multi-coloured flower patterns, to make the otherwise boring dresses sexually tantalizing to modern day audiences.[4]