Thread: Your definition of a saidi costume...

Next project will be a juicy raks Assaya. So again the costuming question needs to be brought up, in time for I have done costume slavery every free minute the last month and I don't want this to happen again...

Navel covered, that understood, I don't want to wear the folkloric look unless, hum. The reason being I am tall and not fragile looking and these dresses might make me look physically stronger than I am. I have a nice hourglass shape but not really fine shoulders, like I avoid wearing leather jackets although I'd die to have a nice one... I care to highlight my waist in order to look elegant, that's why I'm not too much into a saidi dress. Also I might want to use the costume yet for other stuff than just this saidi.

Saidi is cheeky, fun, temperamental and I want to dance it like this but also preserving femeninity and grace. I love the Mona al Said clip and the Camelia one now!

So, is navel covered enough, even if the dress reaches only as high as a waistband and only in the center? Separed from the bra?

I love juicy colours. I just did a red costume, so, even though my idea of saidi and red goes very well together. Royal blue doesn't suit me and I don't see it for saidi so I'm thinking intense purple, possibly with colourful beading.

Please, do you have pictures, ideas, videoclips and experience of what flatters a figure, what not?

This should flatter

This is what I wear for assaya

Something like this is not possible? I mean maybe I prefer to have my legs a little bit more covered than Camelia, but the idea of a half-dress appeals to me.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIuLEN3Rqgs&feature=]YouTube - Camelia egyptian bellydancer - Gran Hyatt boat Cairo - saiidi[/ame]

Originally Posted by laura 2

This is what I wear for assaya

that looks beautiful on u!

Nouria -

Y0u could easily wear a beledy dress like the one in the video. It's not particularly "saidii" or folkloric, but the truth is many dancers do assaya in bedlah, so a beledy dress wouldn't be out of place.

Here is one of hte two I wear:



I have another which someone on the swap board had it's twin for sale, I'll see if I can find a photo. . .

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ETA: here is the twin of my other "saidii" dress: http://www.bhuz.com/forum/bellydance...s-sparkle.html It is fun, cheeky but defiantly more stage than folkloric.

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Hm, pretty dress, Tahira! It's very elegant. (the yellow one)
I am honestly not a fan of the: your girls looking out of the window-balady-dress look. If Balady dress it has to stay over half the boobs IMO.

I want rather sth. more like a cabaret costume like Camelia is wearing, only the navel maybe covered and if I feel like I can have a headscarf for my hair isn't that long so I have sth. swinging around me when I turn.

It sounds as though you have answered your own question. If you want to make it a little more folkloric feeling, you might consider adding an arm drape such as are seen here at LRose designs:

L. Rose Designs - Online Catalog

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I sort of always know what I want more or less but I'm not sure, since many dancers seem to say: assaya there has to be more dress. So how much more and I was wondering was I unaware of some rules.

Yes a half dress (dress in the front, two piece in the back) would be nice or bedleh but with elements that join belt and bra so I'm looking for examples of this sort. I don't want it very sophisticated, for the fresh, cocky, playful attitude in a saidi, so some girlyish thing about it would be nice.

The truth is that there are no hard and fast rules with this. Many dancers choose to wear a dress for Assaya, whether a Galabaya with a hip scarf or any type of glamorized saidii dress like the examples above, depends on the dancer and their intentions. Some even do Ghawazee coats with harem pants. Once again, no right or wrong.

Heck, I have even seen dancers wearing very minimalist Eman Zaki costumes break out a cane!

Have fun with it!

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Originally Posted by laura 2

This is what I wear for assaya

I like stripes. I was thinking black and white, broader stripes, pyjama look coined by Fifi Abdo, but then again, that's real baladi. Plus, when the dress fit's tight the leaner you are, the better. You look very nice in you're dress, I've seen it before, the colours are cute but I wasn't thinking dress like with sleeves, shoulders covered and so.