The Costume Goddess Tells All
Book 1: Flattering Costume for Bellydancers
ALL YOU SHOULD KNOW before designing or choosing a bellydance costume!

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Description
Spiral-bound, 68 pages, with 120 illustrations and photos, plus blank figures for sketching designs.

Who can use this book?
Anyone who wants to know more about costuming herself for bellydance attractively and professionally. Especially useful for beginning dancers!

Review of Book #1 "The Art of Middle Eastern Dance"

Above: Part One - What is a Bellydance Costume?

• Bellydance Costume Styles
  Nine costume styles, descriptions of the various pieces, and how to combine them. Includes beladi, cabaret, "gypsy", and Tribal. Suggestions for creative variations.
• Good taste in costume
  Delicate concerns about appropriate theatrical attire without appearing garish, risque', or tacky.
• Do and Don't
  How to enhance favorite features and disguise less-than-perfect features; illustrations and detailed advice for all figure types, including large, short, pear-shaped, short-waisted or large-busted figures; Types of belly covers, drapes and other camouflage.
• Color combinations
  Colors to flatter the complexion, and how to combine them attractively into various costume color schemes.
• Fabric choices
  Types of costume fabric available; which ones work best for costume pieces and why.
• Decoration
  The many choices of ornament;design principles; methods for designing attractive, original costumes, without overbeading or overdesigning.
• Costumes that suck
  Parade of ugly and icky! Don't let this happen to you.