Thought Provoking Belly Dance Costumes: the good, the bad and the hideous
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Aniseteph
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Genius!
Ah, the bouillabaisse troupe - the more realistically sea-themed and mermaidy you get, the more it looks like you just got fished up in a net.
Appliques are tricky... I liked them on the purple and blue one a few posts back, although IMO the short skirt did it no favours. I think it's that they need a bit of extra embellishment or using on something a bit more fancy to not look like a shortcut.
Daimona
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Oh my, the bouillabaisse troupe have gone tribal... tribouillabaissebaltastic....
Amulya
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Yep much better without, but th boob appliqué is still weird and the one on the hip isn't that nice either. It needs more of that same colour incorporated to work
Darshiva
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That red one is great.... for burlesque.
Roshanna
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The black & white one just looks messy. Like a white costume got splattered in mud by a passing truck.
I actually think the teal 'bermuda triangle' one is really pretty, but I'm not sure I'd have the fortitude to wear it :shok:
Amulya
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Here is a pretty ocean themed costume for a change, only thing I would change is the straps and the massive gap between the bra cups, because it looks too naked for belly dance.
http://pin.it/41plBC5
this is a pretty dragon themed one:
http://pin.it/AwcHdoi
http://pin.it/41plBC5
this is a pretty dragon themed one:
http://pin.it/AwcHdoi
Shanazel
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That's not just half a bumcheek- it's the whole bumface. 
I agree with you about the two dark blue areas on the blue costume needing to be balanced by use of the color elsewhere. I'm not a big fan of different colored boobs anyway thought I can see how the effect might be useful for someone who has different sized boobs and wants to make them look closer to the same size without a ton of padding.
I like the color and basic design of the deep teal Bermuda Triangle but the overexposure aspects definitely need some rethinking.
I agree with you about the two dark blue areas on the blue costume needing to be balanced by use of the color elsewhere. I'm not a big fan of different colored boobs anyway thought I can see how the effect might be useful for someone who has different sized boobs and wants to make them look closer to the same size without a ton of padding.
I like the color and basic design of the deep teal Bermuda Triangle but the overexposure aspects definitely need some rethinking.
Daimona
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This one would be amazing in something like black and silver. Only posted it because I don't like the colours, but the lines are interesting and would work really well in other colours I think.
Love the elegant black lines in this one, at least from this angle. Would lov to see it from other angles as well.
Love the elegant black lines in this one, at least from this angle. Would lov to see it from other angles as well.
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Aniseteph
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The gold one looks a bit perturbed. The blue tribalish one; what is that motif in the middle? an eye? a sporran?.... then zoom in for a close up and all I see now is Bender from Futurama. It's got his teeth. And the green one with gold fringe looks appropriately apologetic and sad.
Those tiered flouncy skirts with the wire edges look like a fire hazard. There was a big to-do over here around Halloween because of nasty cheap costumes being dangerously flammable, and I expect some the cheap Chinese skirts are exactly the same stuff.
But I quite liked the yellow one with black lines Amulya posted (only it's got one of those silly flip up hems which are really starting to irritate me).
Those tiered flouncy skirts with the wire edges look like a fire hazard. There was a big to-do over here around Halloween because of nasty cheap costumes being dangerously flammable, and I expect some the cheap Chinese skirts are exactly the same stuff.
But I quite liked the yellow one with black lines Amulya posted (only it's got one of those silly flip up hems which are really starting to irritate me).