c0770 Rich Brown Lycra, Gold/Silver/Multi/Crystal Professional Belly Dance Costume     $395

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Like most of the costumes on this site, this was a one-of-a-kind piece hand crafted by an Egyptian artisan. THIS COSTUME CAN NOT BE ORDERED. Will there be more? Individual artisans will occasionally repeat designs, but never exactly and rarely in the same color. It's impossible to say if or when these will show up or in what size or color. YOU CAN'T ORDER THIS COSTUME. Thank you.

Made in Egypt. THERE IS A LOT MORE COLOR in this costume than appears in these pictures. Much of what looks like some kind of dark fill is a beautiful flat iridescent sequin that goes between red and peacock green. This is truly a lovely and intense costume, very high quality, made of a heavy weight lycra that itself is a lovely rich color that "brown" seems too plain to describe.

Elaborate beadwork uses many kinds of glass beads, mainly in golds: seed beads, twisted bugles, large sead beads. Some fills are in brown seed beads. Quite a bit of strung rhinestones throughout bra and all hip beadwork. Iridescent sequins mentioned above, plus silver and gold holographic sequins. Nice quality red acrylic accent crystals give a real "pop", clear acrylic stones used as well. Rich fringe (copious on both skirt hip area and bra) made up of pairs of strands of elaborate beadwork (twisted bugles, standard bugles, metallics, large glass seed beads in gold and ambers) tipped with large round semi-precious-stone-look beads. These aren't just brown, they are variegated and have a crystalline look to them, not as dark as they appear in the photos.

Fit-to-flare skirt has center slit. Not too high, but easy to stitch together the top couple of inches if you like. Short back zipper. Cutouts on sides backed with nude mesh. Slit edges and hem trimmed with looping gold seed bead and iridescent sequin edging. Quite a bit of beadwork around entire bottom of skirt. Most clears hem by at least two inches, but in a couple of places parts of it do dip down to within about an inch of the hem.

Bra has halter strap, decorative shirred band across bottom of cups with zig-zag of real glass rhinestones. Rest of bra is completely covered with beadwork.

Accessories: Matching Elaborately Beaded Gauntlets

Sizing: Medium-Large

Bra: Should fit range including 34DD, 36C/D, 38B/C.
Skirt Top: Fabric relaxed = 30", stretches to 38".Has no elastic, however this lycra is fairly heavy gauge and top is pretty heavy duty. Will fit several inches smaller with elastic added. Nonetheless, it's advisable to add elastic as the fabric will not hold its memory forever. See easy tip here.
Skirt Hips: Fabric relaxed = 34", stretches to 42"
Skirt length: 37"

Age/Condition: New.

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