What Were They Thinking?

10:58 PM | Posted by Amulya

In art, one of the principles of design is directional force. Directional force is what causes the viewer’s eyes to move around. This costume designer really utilized directional force not only with the crotch-topus, the slit right up the middle, but by including lots of little arrows pointing toward “a very naughty bit indeed!”



Thanks to Klaire

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9:47 PM | Posted by Amulya

Listed as 'stunning' costume. It some sort of is, I'm perplexed about the weird middle bit:

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11:05 PM | Posted by Amulya

Never, ever try to combine some kind of corset lingerie bra thing with a belly dance costume, it just doesn't work

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10:51 PM | Posted by Amulya

I have seen this bra before on EBay, but then it was still a complete costume (argh I can still see the picture in my mind!) with tacky face veil. I must have that picture saved on my old computer, so be patient, I'll find it one day. Not sure what happened to the rest of the costume, but do we really care?

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6:47 PM | Posted by Amulya

Attack of the gigantic fringe! But the epaulettes and the nipple accents are bad too. The whole thing is just too chunky in design. I do think that the colors could work, this kind of blue and brown can match if the background is brown and there are a few blue adornments.

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10:38 PM | Posted by Amulya

For the bellydancing dog:

Even veils can go wrong, this one has some strange appendixes at the bottom:

Bonus for today: this bra has strange seems right over the middle, and of course fringe overload

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10:34 PM | Posted by Amulya

This is definitely made by someone who knows how to make a costume and do beading, but the strange bra with targets on them and the stripes that make you dizzy... This costume would not even work for a belly dancer, how would it accentuate the movements?

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10:30 PM | Posted by Amulya

OK, costumes like these are not my style, so I can't judge them, maybe some like them, but that arm thingy!

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10:21 PM | Posted by Amulya

Very creative solution:

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10:34 PM | Posted by Amulya

This is just scary, it nearly needs censuring!

This is just scaaaaary!

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10:14 PM | Posted by Amulya

What did the designer think when he stratigically placed the butterfly on the bum crack? Please no more designs like this!!!

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9:51 PM | Posted by Amulya

Lets say you got a hip scarf, mardi gras beads, some cheap glittery fabric and some appliques. Well this is what you do: (personally I find it a crime if someone cuts up a hipscarf and this must have been the beading of a decent one!)

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10:03 PM | Posted by Amulya

Flowery cstume where one flower on the belt seems to puke....

No it is not nice when lingerie bra straps are still openly visible and when the belt has lining sticking out. I don't even say anything about the design

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9:39 PM | Posted by Amulya

A white costume that looks like it has been made of plastic, a bra that could have been very nice but never got finished (lingerie bra straps still visible), and some kind of whitch belly dance costume?

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9:32 PM | Posted by Amulya

Oh really?

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9:44 PM | Posted by Amulya

No serious, I think there are people who actually do combine stuff like this!

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10:50 AM | Posted by Amulya

Opinions are varying about this one: some love it, some hate it. I'd rather see two sleeves or no sleeves in this case and a skirt instead of pants.

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8:36 PM | Posted by Amulya

This comes from http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/ a site that's pretty similar to this one, but instead of belly dance costumes, the theme is cakes!




Original text below the picture: "Let's take a moment to really absorb the full impact of this wedding "cake". Drink it all in: the stacked strawberries, the bananas, the unfortunately positioned apricots ON the bananas, the rockin' plaid suit in the background..." http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/07/freud-would-have-field-day.html

The text accompanying this picture was:

"Obviously someone needed to rein in this woman during the wedding planning. What kind of ego does it require to commission a life-sized replica of yourself in cake? But what really baffles me is this: the details are exact right down to the hair clip, so what the heck is UP with that tacky red rick-rack down the skirt of the cake? "Sure, we hand-painted a matching bodice-design, copied the make-up and hairstyle, and have identical veils - but then we thought this giant rick-rack would add just the right extra touch!" ?!?Obviously Bridezilla shares my opinion: she's eying that red trim with murder in her eyes. "
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/08/play-it-again-wrecks.html

We have a belly dance version of a cake (yes it's even wearing a Ugly Belly Dance Costume!):

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8:53 PM | Posted by Amulya

For sale on EBay:

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