100 Years of Wild, Memorable Rockettes Costumes

If you watched this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, perhaps you caught the performance by the famous Radio City Rockettes, clad in gold minidresses with festive red, blue and green swoops evoking old-fashioned electric Christmas lights. The dresses glittered, they fluttered, they flashed, and they gleamed as the dancers spun and kicked across Herald Square. And behind the scenes, designer Emilio Sosa remembers, the design approval process involved a degree of seriousness and ceremony more often seen in electing a pope.