Thought Provoking Belly Dance Costumes Part I

[Shanazel]

I found this while I was looking for soft sculpture arms for Amulya on the peacock thread. Perhaps we need a subsection of UBDC for ugly belly dance poses. This person posted this picture of herself on her website, so I suppose she is happy with it. I'd blur out the face, but I can't unless Moon will teach me how (Moon is my computer guru ).

 

[Suhad]

It has nothing to do with the wonderful, rich and elegant costumes of the Nagwa Fouad and Fifi Abdo time, or the even older ones from Taheya Karioka, Samia Gamal, Naima Akef (which we know unfortunately only in black and white. Imagine those costume dreams in colour!)

Yeah, I know Ted Turner got a lot of heat for colorizing some of the classics of American cinema, but he did a huge amount of research in order to get the colors on the costuming correct...imagine if someone had cared enough to do that for the Egyptian classics. I STILL want to make replicas of some of Samia Gamal's costumes, even if I don't know the colors, because they are so incredibly elegant.

Oh, and Shanazel, is that Fatheim? (maybe I spelled it wrong)

 

[Moon]

Well, at least that woman seems to wear her old-people's-white-hair with pride, Shanazel.
The only way in which I could blur the face was copying the image to photoshop, blur it in there, save the file on my pc () and post it here as a link. If you don't have photoshop you can also just put something over the face with Paint or so.

Amulya, last time I posted in this thread I missed the entire page on which you posted some of the most horrible costumes ever. And thanks for the hat! It still makes me laugh :lol:

 

[Shanazel]

Oh, and Shanazel, is that Fatheim? (maybe I spelled it wrong)

No, I believe she calls herself Pepper Alexandria. She puts herself forth as a belly dancer, but the costume, attitude, and appellation call stripping to mind (maybe because a friend of mine used to be an exotic dancer under the name Chili Pepper).

I'll try the face painting, Moon. Thanks.

 

[Suheir]

No, I believe she calls herself Pepper Alexandria. She puts herself forth as a belly dancer, but the costume, attitude, and appellation call stripping to mind (maybe because a friend of mine used to be an exotic dancer under the name Chili Pepper).

I'll try the face painting, Moon. Thanks.

That photo looks as though it's from a girly pin-up calendar.

 

[Amulya]

Onion net costume:

 

[Shanazel]

I particularly like the "modesty flower" strategically placed on the front.

 

[Ranya]

Oh dear...Shanazel....got me rolling on the floor for about 15min for the modesty flower :-D ...you truly are my humor role model! GO girl!

 

[catwomyn]

The woman pictured above is actually a San francisco area teacher who's quite good.

 

[Shanazel]

Oh dear...Shanazel....got me rolling on the floor for about 15min for the modesty flower :-D ...you truly are my humor role model! GO girl!

That is one of the nicest things anyone has said to me. Thank you, Ranya.

What style does Pepper Alexandria teach, Catwomyn?

 

[catwomyn]

She teaches turkish style and ghawazee dance and puts on the Carnival of Stars Festival with Latifa. She's also involved with comics - as in comic books and I think the picture may be intended as a comic-book style image.

Carnival of Stars TM OFFICIAL WEBSITE Ghawazee.com A Holiday Dance Festival. Belly Dance and Comicbook Convention!

 

[Shanazel]

Well, that's interesting. Thanks for the site and the information.

The following is from an advertisers site: I think of it as the yellow peril.

Same site: go straight from your gig to sweet dreams in these belly dance jammies

Different site: Shop Like an Egyptian

 

[Amulya]

:shok: that yellow thing! And the black with nude cossie, just yuk

 

[Ranya]

Honestly, the green dress doesn't seem that horrible to me....

 

[Zurah]

Nor to me, though I wouldn't wear it myself because of the color - I need no help making my skin look even more indoorsy-green, thank you It's not great, but somebody with a darker skin tone might be able to pull it off nicely...

 

[Moon]

I would like the green dress without those big hearts.
Those bellydance jammies... riiight, coins are well known to be very comfortable to lay on in bed.

And what do you think of this?

 

[miriam]

I still can't get over how the yellow costume has the boobs pointing in 2 different directions.

 

[Aniseteph]

Moon, that one looks like it's been knitted out of those metallic scourer things you can get to clean out saucepans. :lol:

Apologies if these are anyone's treasured creations, but they are both just so wrong IMO.
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[gisela]

oh no!!! that's mine!


Haha just kidding.
The blue one looks like some sesamestreet/muppet show-( or something from the fraggles -are they called that in english?) animal with closed eyes and heavy eyelids with giant eyelashes.

 

[Aniseteph]

OMG Gisela - I'm imagining it opening its eyes, now that is the stuff of nightmares.

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