Costuming Middle Eastern Dance

Advice and information on costuming.

• Costumes - Covers various styles, including tribal. Advice and instructions for making headpieces, tops, skirts and pants, and belts, including tips such as secure beading, ways to tie belts, and layering.
  
• Farfesha: Belly Dance Articles - Includes advice on tailoring a bought costume, making tassels, wrapping turbans, costume care, costume prices, zil elastic, collecting your dowry, and making a tribal skirt.
  
• Shira: Costume Corner - Help and advice for a beginners, practice outfit, the classic look, and costuming a troupe. Book reviews, tips and tricks, and galleries including fabulous fuller figures, historical garb and making your own.
  
• Dawn Devine Brown - Author, costumier, dancer and historian. Books, links to articles, a quarterly e-zine on costuming and details of classes in Milpitas. Includes a glossary of belly dance and cultural terms.
  
• Hair Extensions - Guide with a gallery of Gothic punk creations and advice on materials and shops. UK based.
  
• Kyria's Closet - Gothic and bellydance clothes. Descriptions and patterns, articles, links, tips, and Kyria's biography. [English/Dutch]
  
• The Costume Goddess - Sells bellydance costume how-to book. Also includes costume and bellydance art galleries, tips and caricatures.
  
  

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