Nassels (Nipple Tassels)

This original example was sent to me all the way from Czechoslovakia :

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Another Really Strange One

Space for a third boob (I think this is not meant for performing, I can see a costume malfunction...) and the embellishments are pretty weird

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Stripey

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Targets Again

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Weird Contruction


Just the bra is pretty strange

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Leia Got a Twin!

And apparently these are belly dance costumes...

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Beautiful Costume

Made by staranise from www.orientaldancer.net
The fabric is so pretty and I love the hair ornaments!


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mix 'n match

This is what happens if you put scraps together

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More Weird Etsy Stuff

Of course tagged as 'belly dance'...



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Halloween

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Happy Halloween!


Seriously, this was tagged 'belly dance'.


Anyway, this is our opinion of the above picture as belly dance head dress:


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When designs go wrong

Giant scarab...
The woollen belt is a strange addition to this bra

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From the Vault again

A classic! This one was being sold on EBay as belly dance costume (as if!). People try anything to sell and 'belly dance' seems a label they love to put to their items:


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Nooooo

Nowhere in the description did this costume indicate it was for Halloween, but I think that "SEXY ARABIAN BELLY DANCER COSTUME" is pretty scary!

This costume was found by the amazing costume detective Karnak Claire!


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Post Apocalyptic

 Post Apocalyptic Belly Dance Pirate Wench Peasant Top Skirt Costume Halloween 
 Discovered by Sophia Maria

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Cheap Way to Make a Belly Dance Costume

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For the Belly Dancer with Runny Nose!

You have a terrible cold, but oh no, you've got to perform tonight. This is the perfect solution:





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Belly dance bathing suit cross breed

Return of the weird bathing suit belly dance costume thingy. What's up with the crotch fringe? When do people learn that that is FREAKY?

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Boob-Looker gone Wrong

Costumes like these are not necessairily wrong, there are nice ones around, but what's up with the pattern on the dress?


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Even the manequin is shocked

The bra is maybe not that bad, but the belt is shockingly big

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For Halloween?

Listed as 'belly dance' skull bindi


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Halloween Costumes Maybe?

A dark spooky costume for halloween. It's got eyes and red and green moustacios and an oddly shaped black thing on the tummy....Scarey!

Thanks to anne


The picture is too small, but still the giant fish is recognizable. Thanks to anne


This is being sold as "SEXY Belly Dancer EXOTIC DANCE Halloween Costume", that this is listed as exotic dance costume, is understandable, but sexy? Not really. Belly dance? Nope! And Halloween? I can't see the Halloween-ish thing in this one. But scroll down and see a real belly dance costume for Halloween!

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Walk Like an Egyptian...

Here is so much weirdness going on, I don't know where to start! The layers of square fringe, the fringe overload at the neck, the neck-thingy, the really bad belt and the lame skirt. Oh I forgot, the pharaonic-ness of it....


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Cool Halloween Costume

My friend Anala from bellydanceforums.net made this super cool Halloween costume with wiggly eyes. Imagine how they move with shimmies! There is a story behind this costume, please read :)


"It started something like this: I am sitting at a "Haflaween" a year or so ago, watching performers in their crazy Halloween / bellydance costumes. And something, some piece of music, made me think of putting wiggly eyes on a belt.

Flash forward a year or so, and my brother- and sister -in- law play a joke on my mother- and father- in law while they are out of town. They sneak into the house and put wiggly eyes EVERYWHERE. On the fridge when you open it. On switchplates. On the toilet lid when you lift it. It was hilarious.

And I just *had* to make a costume with them. Had to.

So, step one was figuring out how to attach them. For a while, I had some idea (crazy) about quilting them down under tulle. That wouldn't work -- it would make them hard to see from a distance. So, I thought about some kind of clear plastic, lightweight, but like contact paper that would seal them to the fabric.

You get really strange looks from the clerks at fabric stores describing a problem like that.

But, bless the ladies at Hancock, they have a sense of humor. (Mental note, I owe them a trip with the finished product; I promised after all.)

The clerk there took me to the glue isle and really recommended Fabric Tack. I had Sobo and (something else) already; but, 3 is the charm. So, I took the Fabric Tack home for a glue test.

I had 3 dimensions for success:
1. dries clear
2. ease of application (can I control the squirt?)
3. how well does it hold?

Here are the 3 lined up. The fabric tack was the hands down winner.

Construction . . . and a LOT of fumes . . .were in my future."

You can see many more pictures here on facebook


Anala explained a bit more about the lining, because there is actually a joke in the lining:

"So, The liner fabric has owls on it. Winking owls, to go with the movement on the eyes outside. But, there is another aspect to the joke, if you dig a little. Owls say "hoot" (according to the English rendering), and owls are sometimes called hooters. But, "hooters" also means "boobs" in English slang, and there is a restaurant chain around here called "hooters" with an Owl logo. The restaurant features scantily clad buxom waitresses. So, despite a lifetime of being small busted, I have hooters -- and hooters on my hooters."

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Creatieve with Bra Straps...



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Can Be Saved?


I think it can, remove the tacky feathers and you have a very simple elegant costume:

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Cups with Angry Eyes

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Targets

Costume with targets on the cups and some weird stiff addition to the belt. Oh and wall of fringe!

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Costume with Face

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Can We Save This?

Might be possible to save this one, if the big loop of fringe is removed and the cups turned a bit so it fits an actual human.

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Orange


Nipple tassel design again

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Barfing Monster

The skirt looks so weird, like a monster puking a yellow waterfall:


But the whole costume is odd, the yellow bits look like there is nothing there, from a distance. And the skirt panel is see through so you can see the awful 80's style underwear underneath. As a dancer you want people to focus on your dancing, not on underwear and how weird the costume is


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Falłing Skies Theme?

Has anyone seen Falling Skies? The thing on the mannequin'so back reminds me of those creepy harnesses the kids who have been abducted by aliens



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Retro?

This is so 90's with the epaulettes and the big chunky appliqués. Don't know if 90's are long enough ago to call retro! 

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Opinions?

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Beautiful Costume

Love this one. I would put harem pants or another skirt underneath though, but I just love the paisleys on the skirt and the design of the bra and belt

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Green

Opinions?

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Beautiful Costume

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Beautiful Costume

I might have posted this one before, not sure. Love the colour! 

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Beautiful Coin Costume

Every now and then I post beautiful costumes to balance the blog out a bit. We need examples of good costumes and this is definitely one of them! 

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Not Belly Dance

But wanted to share anyway, sadly the asymmetrical boob-sling idea has also crept up in other dance forms. The idea is actually quite old, the first boob-sling costume I ever saw was posted on Bhuz.com more than 10 years ago, as an example of a not so nice design.

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