Welcome to the Fluffgirl Burlesque Society

For those of you new to the world of Burlesque:

It was originally a form of art that mocked by imitation, referring to everything from comic sketches to dance routines and usually lampooning the social attitudes of the upper classes.
It was often ridiculous in that it imitated several styles, and
combined imitations of authors and artists with absurd descriptions. In
this, the term was often used interchangeably with "pastiche," "parody," and, at the turn of the 18th century, "mock-heroic."
Possibly due to historical social tensions between the upper classes
and lower classes of society, much of the humor and entertainment
focused on lowbrow and ribald subjects.

In literary criticism,
burlesque is often used as a generic term to describe any imitative
work that derives humor from an incongruous contrast between style and
subject. In this usage, forms of satire such as parody and travesty are types of burlesque (Abrams, 1999). High burlesque
refers to a burlesque imitation where a serious style is applied to
commonplace or comically inappropriate subject matter — as, for
example, in the literary parody and the mock-heroic. Low burlesque applies an irreverent, mocking style to a serious subject; an example is Samuel Butler's Hudibras, which describes the misadventures of a Puritan knight in satiric doggerel verse, using a colloquial idiom.