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c0902 Turquoise Waist Strap Fancy Costume     $260   CLEARANCE $220

5 in stock, see below for sizes and availability.

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Made in Egypt. Beautiful turquoise stretch fabric with turquoise metallic overlay (tiny close random dots). Incredible amount of beadwork and detail for this price point. Beadwork mostly glass beads (iridescent and plain turquoise seed beads, long smooth silver bugles). Accents of cool clear blue acrylic beads with inner white round bead. Many crystal accents (probably acrylic, very nice). Four 5/8" rounds surrounded by large rhinestones in hip beadwork, five on bra with additional scrolls of large rhinestones. Some sequins in tiny flat gold, turquoise and gold holograhic. Slight differences in design placement, but all go together.

Halter bra, farily deeply cupped. Not all exactly the same, but most tend to have wide, deep cleavage; you may need to put a couple of stitches in at bottom of V to bring cups together some. Connection to skirt is permanent. Top part is actually two separate pieces of fabric coming down from each cup to the ring (I liked the effect of folding back the inner edges so that it made the pieces narrower and you could see they were separate). I believe the ring is actually plastic.

Skirt is fitted in hips with a slight flare, slit over left leg. Fringe accents in hip beadwork. NOTE: per "age/condition," below: the very first thing you should do is glue or tie these fringe bunches on the inside, they do come out!

Accessories: Matching beaded gauntlets, headband.

Sizing: Scroll down below photos.

Age/Condition: New. BUT WHY SO CHEAP????? This costume, in both overall design and beadwork (including the amount of work, the beautiful design, quality of the beads and crystals and quality of the beadwork) I would expect to be selling for at least $100 more. They were made in bulk, for one thing. And honestly, there are some small things that come from workers going fast, that you wouldn't see in a $350 costume... although wait, I take that back, you'd be suprised at the garbage you see on some expensive costumes (YOU never see it because I fix it :)! ). IF I HAVE TIME I will take care of most of this, which is what I usually do on all costumes. However, because I am keeping the price to YOU low, I'm making very little on these and I need to keep my invested time down.

Primarily I'm referring to one thing: a lot of the beadwork threads on the inside are not tied off, they are just stitched through a few times and then a looooong piece of thread left. This is actually pretty standard practice, but I usually tie them off or glue them off at least on stress points of the costume, that generally means where it's most likely to be stretched (hips, waist) or roughed up (hems, edges). Actually, where the fabric is not pulled much, it's probably ok to leave as long as beading isn't actually loose on the outside, and on these everything is generally nice and tight. You'll have to take care of this (and it's actually good practice to do so on all your costumes!). This likely will be most evident on the skirt top and hem edging, which get a lot of handling wear, and so is more likely to pull loose. So check over carefully and tie off or glue loose ends. If there is major bead loss I'll take care of it.

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Sizes - c0902 Turquoise Waist Strap Fancy Costume 
Smallest to largest, more or less. All measurements in inches. See below for asterisked notes.
  Bra Should Fit Range Including Max Underbust Skirt Top* Skirt Hip* Skirt Length** Stomach Strap Length*** Vertical, Stomach Connection****
1
SOLD		 32 C, 34 B/C, Narrow 36 A+/B 34.5 22-33 27-35 35 34 8-10
2 32 C, 34 B/C,  36 A+/B 34 24-35 28-36 36 33 7.5-9.5
3 wide-ish 32 C, 34 B/C+, 36 A+/B+ 34.5 24-35 28-36 35.5 34 8-10
4 wide-ish 32 C, 34 B/C+,
36 A+/B/narrow small C		 34 24-35 28-36 36 34 7.5-9.5
5
SOLD		 34 B+/C/small D, 36 B/C+ 35 24-35 29-37 36 34 7.5-9.5
6 wide 34 B+/C/small D, 36 B+/C+ 36 24-35 30-38 36 34 8-10
7 wide 34 B+/C/small D, 36 B+/C+ 36 24-35 30-38 36 34 8-10
8
SOLD		 wide 34 DD, 36 B+/C+ 33 24-38 35-42 36.5 33 8-10
9
SOLD		 36 C+/D, 38 B/C 34 26-36 30-40 36 34 8-10
10
SOLD		 36 C+/D, 38 B/C 34.5 26-36 32-41 36 33 8-10
*  Fabric relaxed - stretches to fit approximately. Skirt Tops: a lot of elastic, you can loosen as needed, but I think this max is about it for the fabric
** Skirt length: just the skirt, doesn't include any stomach strap.
*** Stomach strap length: total around including ring.
**** Vertical Stomach Connection: height of everything from skirt top to bra bottom, relaxed - stretched. The stretch max would be pretty tightly stretched.
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