Thread: Ultra Bad-Ass Vintage Costumes

Dancer/stripper in SpicedJellyBeans' post: hair VOLUME. WANT.

btw, I don't think everyone hates us...

Omg these pictures are frikken awesome!! Thanks for posting.

I looooooove this thread!

Shems, how do you find those treasures! .w.:..g.:

BTW, would you believe that I have a pair of similar vintage sequined shoes from the 60s! ..l;,..l;,

Can't dance in those, but I promise myself that when I get a professional photoshot, I'm going to wear them for and "old school look" pic! He, he, he!

Qamar

you know...everywhere. Rhea, Piper and Melina are featured in the last three...I love the one with the pregnant Rhea. And the woman with the sequined shoes is from Zorba's restaurant website, they had a few other historical photos, but this one and the one above it were the only ones that really showed the costume. I only posted the first one for her hairstyle...the costume...meh

pretend vintage photo, but lovely vintage style costumes:

I don't think I posted these already...

not exactly on theme,but check out them flowers:

Originally Posted by shems

The ciggy is a nice touch - LOL

lol I can't imagine someone performing with a smoke in their mouth nowadays..

I thought so too. This was a still taken during the filming of a movie, so she's playing a character.

larger version of one I posted earlier:











newer made, but vintage style details

Tunisia 1975

I wish these weren't so tiny, I love these photos and suzy's sense of style:

Ah, I love bugle beads...

I bet you my instructor could do the cigarette in her mouth thing. lmao!

And I love the belly body stocking covers with the Tribal dancers, those are awesome. I must make! I must make!

I love all the skirts with the border along the hem! I just can't seem to find any like that anymore.

Originally Posted by ceydahazine

I love all the skirts with the border along the hem! I just can't seem to find any like that anymore.

Ceyvadhazine, back then most american dancers made their own costumes. Sometimes they used Indian Sari material, which had beautiful borders, often golden. In addition, many edged their sheer skirts with satin blanket trim, or so I've read.

Satin blanket trim is still around, and comes in a world of colors. I'm just sayin'....

Originally Posted by bdaddiction

Ha! Interesting...

Aw, I shouldn't have said that. It's just that our military has a reputation for turning women into sex objects wherever they go. Of course, there are women and men like that everywhere and perhaps we're just being blamed for it.

(No offense to anyone here who strips as well. it's just that often times women who would rather not end up doing this or much worse to survive.)

Originally Posted by shems

pretend vintage photo, but lovely vintage style costumes:

Wow! If this photo showed only the woman on the left (our left), I might have thought this really was a vintage photo.

Marta Schill, I believe.

BTW, funny story. Back in the 8o's I ordered this album and it arrived with no record inside!!

I bought David Carroll Orchestra album, with the belly dancer on the cover and there was no album inside that either (if you buy albums from junk stores, always make sure the records in the sleeve). That was a beautiful costume, with a fish scale pattern.

The second photo is of American dancer Cia Beverly Cirel. I believe the first photo is her as well:






This is also supposed to be her, but I can't see the resemblence. This woman is much more exotic looking to me. Turkish, I'd say:


John Vartan's website, where I found her name:

John Vartan - Insturments

Originally Posted by Qamar60

Woooohooo! She's got a little something of Nathalie Wood's beauty! :tongue:

Qamar

Natalie Wood was far and away the movie star I most wanted to be when I was a little girl. (Little did I know of her tragic life, though.)

Originally Posted by spicedjellybeans

I have always loved and coveted this costume.

It's a good album, too! Got a lovely cover of Ahyazein.

Originally Posted by tamrahennatx

I have always loved and coveted this costume.

Me, too. You might not believe it, but back then (80's) I picked albums for the covers and the costumes in them, since I didn't really know most of the music, except for George Abdo.

Originally Posted by rakgirl

here she is

BTW, does anyone know what the belly danceresque sci-fi fantasy costumes are called. It's an Italian sounding word. I tried to find it through Google but came up blank. It's driving me nuts because I know it.,m::

Originally Posted by spicedjellybeans

BTW, does anyone know what the belly danceresque sci-fi fantasy costumes are called. It's an Italian sounding word. I tried to find it through Google but came up blank. It's driving me nuts because I know it.,m::

Now I'm intrigued...what do you mean exactly?