"Wardrobe Malfunctions"? What's your story?

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Brea

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Hi,

I was just curious what your worst wardrobe malfunction has been? Mine wasn't for bellydance but this is the worst for me:

The first year I was in the Saloon Girl Contest I danced a can-can and sang 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend'. I was wearing a strapless dress that I did not test before the show, and discovered very quickly why you ALWAYS test your costumes!!! It was a crowd of paniolo (cowboys, real live ones) in Waimea, Hawai'i. I wasn't wearing a bra or anything underneath and the dress fell down...I realized right away and pulled it back up, finished the dance all right...and came in last place. I don't know if they thought it was intentional or something, but I was redfaced the entire night.

I fear wardrobe malfunctions when bellydancing now! :D

-Brea
 
Mya

Mya

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earlier this year i performed with some members of my troupe for World Cup Cricket. It was a huge game...sri lanka vs pakistan or something like that - the oval was sold out 25,000 spectators. i was wearing the costume in the pic below and wings.
the area we performed in was the track around the field and we had to pass all of the media to get on and off so we literally danced our ways on and off the stage. My instructor pinned my belt with a safety pin but alas not tightly enough
So there i was 3/4 shimmying my way off the track and directly in front of all the media personnel (local and international photographers and live camera) my belt slips off my hips halfway down my thighs!
i couldn't move so i stopped and shimmied it down to my ankles, stepped one leg out of it, swung it around the other ankle,opened my wings wide and dramatically disposed of it with a kick with a flourish (psshhh..who needs a belt *nose in the air*).
i never saw so many camera flashes in my life and thought to myself "great just what the world needs to see, a bellydancer shedding clothes =( "
my boyfriend later told me that he saw it on tv and it was a kodak moment. My belt was later returned to me by one of the spectators who came down from the seating area to retrieve it and take pictures with us.

i now pin my belt with 3 pins.
 
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Shanazel

Shanazel

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Yeah, but what a great way of dealing with disaster.

My worst costume disaster was a skirt that was too long- I stepped on it and fell flat on my bottom. I spun around on my bottom to get my feet under me, undulated to a stand, and danced away, being sure to give the offending skirt a tug upwards- better be seen adjusting the costume than falling on it again.

I stepped on a veil during a class demo one time- big bada boom and go sprawling sideways. No one believed I was demonstrating a dramatic floor descent :(.
 
Yshka

Yshka

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Aww, poor Shanazel... I believe you, your dramatic floor descents are the best:D

I never really had anything bad happen to me, except for something really funny in one of our troupe performances. I was dancing with two other girls, I was in the middle. At some point during a turn the sequins attached to the bottom of my skirt got caught up in the ones of the dancer to my left. Exactly at that moment we got to a part of the choreography with turns and jumpy movements, followed by walking away from eachother.
We noticed the tangled skirts, smiled and danced the entire thing attached to eachother, quite afraid of pulling the other's skirt down.
We pulled it off quite nicely after all, and at some point the other dancer managed to get us untangled somehow safely.

My last costume malfunction happened to me two weeks ago. The bra hook on my new costume snapped and came off. Thank god it happened on my way out of the dressing room and there was just enough time to change into something else..:shok::lol:
 
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flutter

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as a newbie i had a costume from the 60's that had one hook in the front center of the bra. one big rib drop and lift and it was open! one quick 1/2 turn and i hooked it back on and did nothing with my chest the rest of the show.
I have tto go but I could not let this fun thread end.
Flutter
 
Azeeza

Azeeza

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Oh Lord:

I was working on a costume all night and I didn't check the waist band and when I performed the next afternoon, the skirt started sliding down!

Not wanting to flash the crowd, I elegantly kept pulling my skirt up in the back!

During break time, I pinned my skirt so tightly around my hips that it wasn't going anywhere!

Azeeza
 
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Brea

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Oh I had forgotten this!! I was dancing in a new costume, one that had a crown. I had never danced with anything on my head before and I didn't pin it in. I have really curly, fine hair and during a backbend the crown slipped off. I thought it would be OK because, well, the crown falls on the floor, whatever, right? Oh no. It got stuck in my hair and I had to try to pull it out gracefully even though my hair was velcroed onto it.

In fact, to make it even more exciting, there is photographic evidence...makes me wonder what the photographers were thinking, but for your amusement, here it is:

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No crowns, ever again. *red faced*

-Brea
 
Mya

Mya

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flutter said:
as a newbie i had a costume from the 60's that had one hook in the front center of the bra. one big rib drop and lift and it was open!
Flutter
Click to expand...

i have one such recurring nightmare.


Brea i know all about headpiece mishaps...i have one of those coin headdresses, i don't know how to pin it so it has a tendency to slip as well....usually it falls off once i wear my hair straight, though i know it's a tragedy waiting to happen with my natural curls.
So sorry yours got caught on film...forever.. :shok:
i think i have a new recurring nightmare theme.
 
Shanazel

Shanazel

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Well, bless your heart for a sense of humor, Brea! Talk about your crowning achievement. I never dance with anything on my head, including canes, candlabra, swords, hats, crowns, or small dogs. My hair is so smooth and slippery that I can barely keep it in a braid without spraying it into submission.
 
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Brea

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Awww thank you. I am very proud of my backbends.

I didn't think to photoshop it...I always wanted to use the photo because I thought it was a great example of my backbend. Stupid crown. Never again!

Also, never again a pink costume. I never liked pink.

-Brea
 
gisela

gisela

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Ehh I hope you don't mind me taking the liberty. I am sitting with photoshop supposed to make a poster for me and my class's exam exhibition and I desperately try to find something else to do, hehe:redface:

So I removed your crown, here you go:
 
gisela

gisela

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you're welcome. Glad to help. The pic has a great background for editing in photoshop, quite smooth and simple.

(I still have to finish my poster....:()
 
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Brea

New member
I wanted to add an almost-malfunction! The dancers I was with told me that I should never trust costumes I don't sew myself. The beautiful new costume I bought...EVERYTHING busted on it, every strap of the bra! Even the back clasp. Luckily all this happened prior to the show and one of the other dancers pinned me into it. After the show I saw that the final bra strap had also busted, the right-hand front one. Wouldn't THAT have been an interesting introduction of Brea to Minneapolis! :redface:
 
Lydia

Lydia

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Shanazel mentioned above about some ,,props what not to use on her head,, i just remember a dancer that use to come always a few time a year to Dubai and than we got together in the afternoon and catch up gossip enz.....The thing what this dancer had was this a lovebird and she would hide it in her bra and then it would popout during the show...and kiss her owner and then would slide down from her bra to brafringe and to her belt fringe...this dancer always had looooong fringe like 20 inch or so...and this bird would hold on to the end of the fringe with her little leggies when( shadia that was her name)was spinning so it was realy a funny thing to see like a cartoon caracter realy hilarius and made everybody go in stiches laughing,i think also because in the middle east people are not so much used to pets specialy that time like 15 years ago....so everybody would refer to her not by her name but the ,,dancer with the birdy,, i wonder if anybody knows this dancer? she was from michigan and the name of the birdy was ,,precious,, she also stay,d 1 month at my home and believe me precious was a little spoiled and was just free to do what she wanted so after that month i hade birdypoop like about everywhere in the home...she got special food and was ofcourse handraised so a realy nice cuty thing ,and realy funny when she was going to work with ,,mom,, ......Lydia
 
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