Thread: Post a list of the content of your current costumes closet

I consider that I am obssessed by costumes and I think I am not alone on Bhuz. I am curious to know what is the current content of your costumes closet.
Pics of some of my costumes are in my profile album.

Pharaonix of Egypt
Navy blue Pharaonics - Eclipse (Celestial Shimmer)
Red Pharaonics - Shalimar (Flirty Flair)
Red Pharaonics - Butterfly (Butterfly fantasy)
Emerald Green - classical rings (Spiralling Jewels)
White and turquoise Pharaonics Arabesque skirt
Black and red Pharaonics Arabesque skirt
Gold Pharaonics Arabesque skirt
Orange Pharaonics Arabesque skirt
Black Pharaonics Privé (Heart's desire)
Purple/Burgundy Pharaonics All that Sparkle (Romantic Interlude)
Brown Pharaonics Rabee Noor (Empress)
Royal blue Pharaonics Flowers delight
Orange and gold Pharaonics Andalusian vision
Black Pharaonics Great loop
Red Pharaonics Great loop
Turquoise Pharaonics Great loop
Lilac Pharaonics Great Loop
Gold Pharaonics Great loop

Egyptian Designers
Lime green Mme Nusa
Chocolate/Turquoise Hanan

BELLA
Orange dots Bella
Purple/Blue/Fuschia Bella
Yellow Bella
Red and gold Bella (bedlah)
Dark purple Bella skirt
Purple and gold Bella
Orange and Brown Bella
Orange Bella
Gold Bella

Vintage
Vintage Kitty costume

SIM/LEGEND
Multicolor orange Legend
Lime green Sim
Turquoise Sim

Waiting for Red Empress bedlah, Purple and yellow Hanan...


Will post later some pics of all my cossies

This is off the top of my head:

Green Fiesta Set
Yellow Sim
Blue Samia Gamal set from Dahlal
Gold/Cream 2 piece set
Black Gold Topkapi
Little Egypt beledi dress
Red Joharah
Gold Dahlal bra/belt set
Lilac Silver set
3 beledi dresses, black, red, pink
Skirts

Edna

I'm sure I've forgotten something....

Wow Almeebelly, I want your closet!! ;-)

I've actually been pretty good, just sold 2 costumes so here's what I currently have:

• Turquoise Pharaonics Egyptian Empress
• Lime/Turquoise Pharaonics Ring of Desire
• Forest Green Pharaonics Eclipse
• Gold Decadence/Straps Pharaonics Bra & Belt with a lot of chiffon & satin skirts
• Burgundy/Gold Hoda Elegant Allure
• Ice Blue Hoda Tidal Beauty
• Green Stripe Baladi Dress
• "Gypsy" style stuff: two 25-yd skirts, several tie tops, scarves, etc.

Expecting soon:
• Teal & Turquoise Baladi Dress w/Bra set (being made by local costumer)
• Purple & Fuschia Dahab set (from trade)

For sale:
• Dark Pink Bra & Belt set

:-)

After 30 years of belly dancing, I have such a huge collection that it would probably take me all day to count it all! Off the top of my head, without looking inside my closet, I remember having:

2 Bella bra/belt/skirt sets
1 Pharaonics sparkly dress, 2 Pharaonics bra/belt/skirt sets
2 or 3 Pharaonics bra/belt sets without skirts
2 Mahmoud (al-Wikala) bra/belt sets
3 Mahmoud (al-Wikala) sparkly dresses (need to list 2 on swap meet someday)
2 Gulseren (Turkish) bra/belt/skirt sets
1 Sim Moda Evi dress and 2 Sim Moda Evi bra/belt/skirt sets
1 Eman Zaki sparkly dress
6 Hanan Mahmoud sparkly dresses (I really need to sell one of those)
4 Costless Imports bra/belt sets (2 coin, 2 sparkly)
1 Universal Imports (Anna Kulbashian) bra/belt set
2 assuit folkloric dresses
5 Persian lace circle skirts
2 swirl skirts I made myself
Several chiffon circle skirts I made myself
Several pairs of harem pants I made myself
3 or 4 "Flying Skirts" multi-tiered skirts
2 L Rose designs multi-tiered skirts (Lora no longer makes these)
Several L Rose designs skirts and dresses
1 Mahmoud Salama gallabiya
1 Mahmoud Salama sparkly dress
Several Khaleegy thobes
1 D'fina for Schikhatt
Several Syrian, Palestinian, and Sinai thobes
1 authentic Afghani nomad dress + 1 that I made myself
1 melaya leff dress + a melaya
1 paillette dress
Several cover-ups
Lots of pants from Melodia and Geisha Moth

...and I'm sure many more items that I'm not remembering just now

It's funny you posted this - I just did an inventory myself. :-) And since I know I love seeing everyone else's pictures, I figured I'd share mine.

For bra and skirt costumes:

Purple Velvet Shushanna (Work in Progress)


Silver Shushanna


Turquoise Velvet Eman Zaki with gold beading (recently bought through Bhuz)


Black Hanan with silver beading and irredescent green & blue sequins


Red and gold Hanan bra and dress costume (will probably sell, too big, no pictures yet)

For bedlahs:

Silver Shushanna (same bra as the costume above, but with a matching belt)


Brown and gold Topkapi (first costume, has seen better days. I'm in the middle.)


Sage green and copper Hanan


Black velvet and silver and green Hanan


Burgundy velvet and gold Shushanna


Navy brocade Geisha Moth set with black scalloped lace



I've got my next costume project already in the design phase. I found this really cool velvet with a swirly smokey pattern to it and a shiny snakeskin finish - which I'm thinking this would work for:

OH my, what fun.
Hmmmmmm.

Wine velvet with gold Abla.
Turquoise velvet with gold Joharah.
Vintage black velvet Topkapi bedlah with gold trim, coins, big red stones.
Vintage copper with black & gold Turkish bedlah.
Turkish sequin bedlah with turquoise holo sequins, cobalt blue accent color.
Gold sparkle fabric Hanan Saidi dress.
Royal blue stretchy sleeveless beladi dress totally loaded all over with gold dangles, w/ matching dangled-covered guantlets.
Emerald green sequin with black iris fringe Egyptian fringe monster bedlah.
Raspberry red stretch velvet evening gown, form-fitting and straight with side slits, that I've used for classic Egyptian type performance.

Plus a bunch of different skirts, harem pants, Turkish vests, & bolero vests, to put together with the bedlah sets for different looks.
And 3 body stockings: Nude with silver sequins, nude with gold glitter, black with gold shimmer.

I'm very happy with this collection. I feel like I have something really nice for any kind of look or style I might want to do.

Rosette

I am happy to see that I am not alone!!!!

Below link to some pics with the content of my closet (some pics are body pics with me and some of the pics are those taken by previous owner or from the store or designer).

http://s741.photobucket.com/albums/x...loset_Content/

Enjoy!

Oh dear..what a hard question!

Wow, I'm so behind, I need more costumes

Originally Posted by gisela

Wow, I'm so behind, I need more costumes

LOL!

Hi!

I'm pretty sure, we've already had a thread like that...

But here it goes:

1 Bella, mint
2 Bella, yellow-turquoise with silver accents
3 Bella, light green
4 Sim Moda, salmon with gold accents
5 Hanan, red with gold accents (dress)
6 Bella, watercolours with silver accents
7 Bella, royalblue with gold accents
8 Amira el Kattan, pink with gold and silver accents (dress)
9 Bella, bordeaux with gold accents
10 Amira el Kattan, lightpurple with silver accents (dress)
11 Amira el Kattan, trouser-set, very bright salmon with gold accents
12 Amira el Kattan, turquoise with silver accents
13 Sim Moda, blue with gold accents
14 Bella, white with gold accents
15 Bella, orange-purple-red with silver accents
16 Bella, light grey with silver accents
17 Bella, apple green with silver accents
18 Bella, emerald with gold accents
19 Bella, royal blue with silver accents
20 Bella, purple with gold accents
21 Bella, red and blue with gold accents
22 Bella, red with silver accents
23 egyptian dress, turquoise with silver accents
24 Bella, olive with gold accents
25 Bella, peacock-coloured with silver and gold accents
26 Bella, very bright pink with silver accents
27 Pharaonics, soft pink
28 Pharaonics, blue
29 Bella, black with silver
30 egyptian, salmony-pinkish with silver accents
31 Madame Abla, green with gold accents

And then, I have two Thobe nashal, blue with gold accents and black with gold accents, a persian costume, an afghan costume, several indian sarees and salwar kameez, caftans...

Quite a collection, I think....
Pics of most costumes are on my homepage (the German gallery contains the newest pics).

Love, Sahira.

TanyaLV, I definitely want to sneak a peek into your closet! Especially if you get tired of any of them and want to sell. I think now that I've lost weight I might be able to fit into some of them. ;-)

I don't dance a lot, so I don't have too many costumes. Maybe some of you will take pity on my and donate some to me...
2 Costless Costumes- one coin, mirror, and bells, the other only coins.
At least a dozen circle skirts.
Bright Blue Pharaonics
Gold Pharaonics
Purple Pharaonics Dress
Turquoise Bella
Green Aida Nour
Black and green Eman
Pink Bella
Red Bella
Turquoise Bella
3 or 4 Beledi dresses
2 beaded dresses
Myriad of odds and ends.

I look like a pauper compared to you ladies! But I still don't need that many. I like to look at them though!

As of now I have
2 Eman bra/skirt sets (olive leopard & 80's rocker tiger stripe)
1 Teal Hoda Zaki
2 Bellas- Royal Blue & Silver bedlah, Orange Multicolor project bra/belt (its in process so won't be out in rotation for a while)
1 Purple & Silver vintage bedlah
2 Monika designs - violet leopard bra/skirt & green bra/skirt that is en route.
1 Sahar Basic - lilac
2 Tribal coin Bedlahs that I've made.
1 Self made red & black Gothic fusion
Misc skirts & pants to rotate with the Bra & Belt sets.

Um, I can try. . .

Gold Pharaonics Seawave
Black Pharaonics Pyramid
White Pharaonics Bedlah (no idea the name)

Blue Aziza
Turquoise lace Mdm Abla Choli style w.trumpet skirt
Turquoise Vintage bedlah with matching skirt
Teal Vintage Aziza S'iad bedlah
black and gold Vintage Pirates booty bedlah
Green and pearl Vintage Bedlah (There is a theme here)

Black velvet Egyptian dress
Gold Beledy dress
Orange Beledy dress (bought from Mahira)
Pink dress with massive cut outs
blue Paillet dress
*Purple Velvet dress w/trumpet skirt
*Pink Shimmy Magic Stretch Dress

Brown joharah from Nasila
3 coin costumes One costless, on vintage, one MEM
Red Vintage Aziza
Red Vintage Turkish
Silver high end Turkish

Blue and gold student Bedlahs, both self mades by someone else. Neither fit, but both are good examples of what can be done with little money and ingenuity.

Silver Egyptian basic which is currently been partially denuded and will eventually become a silver and pearl costume.

And a variety of skirts and other accessories.

That may be it but for some odd reason I think there may be more. But I can't remember what.

{{{HUGS}}}

Originally Posted by TanyaLV

Oh dear..what a hard question!

Ok, you have a few days to make an inventory

I feel like such a costume pauper now!

A navy blue and silver Bella (like the one on one of Sandra's DVDs)
A silver Great Loop with several skirts, trumpet, chiffon, etc.
An awesome cream and camel bra and belt (handmade yet just as well made as the Bella I think) with matching crushed velvet pants (I think I bought it from Sabua)
Baladi dress on order
A few Lrose pieces and ren-fest items (big skirts, coinage, etc)
Royal blue thobe

That's it! I need MORE - much much MORE! haha

wow. I was warned this was an expensive dance to get involved with. I hope some of ya'll have your closets insured!!! Especially all those Bellas!

My closet consists of three lovely costumes not made by me:
Madam Abla Royal Purple and Silver
Gold with Rhinestone Stars Egyptian
Lavender and Silver Turkish

All the others are made by me!

Snake Goddess Burgundy and Gold
Samia Gamal-ish Black and Silver
Samia Gamal-ish Baby Blue
Art Deco Pink and Black
Asymmetrical Blue and Black
Moons and Stars Silver and Graphite
Tribaret Black and Red
Tribaret Peacock and Gold Coin
Turkish Black and Silver
Turkish Lime and Turquoise
Turkish Vintage-style Red and Purple

I love these threads - they tell me I'm not alone in my costume addiction!

1. Gold Bella bedlah
2. Red/gold Bella
3. Maroon/purple/burnt orange Bella
4. Green/gold Bella
5. Leopard print Bella
6. Teal Bella bra with self made belt
7. Red/gold Venus
8. Copper great loop
9. Teal great loop
10. Wine Empress/Noor
11. Black/Silver/Purple Regalia
12. Black/Gold Andalusian (doesn't fit - selling it)
13. Eman Zaki Gardenia
14. Purple Sim
15. Black/silver/teal Hanan
16. Self made black/silver vintage bedlah
17. Red basic Pharaonics bedlah (selling)

3 or 4 saiidi/baladi dresses
6 Arabesque skirts - black, copper, gold, eggplant, wine, kelly green
Various other circle/trumpet skirts, sundry pants etc...

On the way: purple peacock from Dahab, orange Andalusian.

Addicted? Moi???

Incredible closets, guys!

So I guess I'll try to remember all my cossies...

1. Burgundy/gold Eman one piece dress
2. Black/gold Noussa bra and skirt
3. Silver Egyptian one piece dress
4. White/gold/silver egyptian one piece dress (In the process of adding lots of black and a bit of green to this one)
5. Red/gold/silver Yasser one piece dress
6. Blue/silver dress (troupe costume, made by us, don't particularly like it but it's there)
7. Turqoise/silver top and skirt. (Bought on Bhuz and in process of remaking it to fit)
8. 2 Black and gold galabeyas.

Okay there may be some i missed these I know by memory
my costume closet has also pirate, Halloween Sci-fi and Ren fair garb(both my husband & I) So I won't include them.
1 blue Egyptian Jewel beledi dress I got from belly Dance Store in MD(my newest costume only 2 weeks old)
1 Red Melaya dress with melaya
1 oil slick turkish set
1 lavender madame alba
1 purple pharonics
1 black/silver Joharah saidi dress
1 Turquoise Hanan
1 black/silver vintage fringe monster
1 purple/silver beledi dress
1 red vintage set (got to totally re work it)
various skirts, harems and veils to mix and match with costumes
2 cover ups
2 gypsy Alia Michele costumes(no longer made)
3 Dhyanis Goddess Boutique top and belt sets
variety of hip scarves, 3 pairs of wings, 2 trays, 3 pr of zills, 2 canes
my practice wear and dance shoes

Great collection Girls!!!!

TanyaLv, I confirm you can take several days to invotory them!!!!

Originally Posted by ANA_bellydancer

Ok, you have a few days to make an inventory

Hi Valeskah,

this post confirm your good taste!! (I mean Arabesque skirts !!!!!)
I am putting an option on the gold one!!!! hi hi!!!!

Originally Posted by valeskah

I love these threads - they tell me I'm not alone in my costume addiction!

1. Gold Bella bedlah
2. Red/gold Bella
3. Maroon/purple/burnt orange Bella
4. Green/gold Bella
5. Leopard print Bella
6. Teal Bella bra with self made belt
7. Red/gold Venus
8. Copper great loop
9. Teal great loop
10. Wine Empress/Noor
11. Black/Silver/Purple Regalia
12. Black/Gold Andalusian (doesn't fit - selling it)
13. Eman Zaki Gardenia
14. Purple Sim
15. Black/silver/teal Hanan
16. Self made black/silver vintage bedlah
17. Red basic Pharaonics bedlah (selling)

3 or 4 saiidi/baladi dresses
6 Arabesque skirts - black, copper, gold, eggplant, wine, kelly green
Various other circle/trumpet skirts, sundry pants etc...

On the way: purple peacock from Dahab, orange Andalusian.

Addicted? Moi???

Hi Sahira,
I am sure this kind of thread still exist but on Bhuz, closets content is moving really fast!


Bella addicted?

Originally Posted by Sahira_Tu_Farach

Hi!

I'm pretty sure, we've already had a thread like that...

But here it goes:

1 Bella, mint
2 Bella, yellow-turquoise with silver accents
3 Bella, light green
4 Sim Moda, salmon with gold accents
5 Hanan, red with gold accents (dress)
6 Bella, watercolours with silver accents
7 Bella, royalblue with gold accents
8 Amira el Kattan, pink with gold and silver accents (dress)
9 Bella, bordeaux with gold accents
10 Amira el Kattan, lightpurple with silver accents (dress)
11 Amira el Kattan, trouser-set, very bright salmon with gold accents
12 Amira el Kattan, turquoise with silver accents
13 Sim Moda, blue with gold accents
14 Bella, white with gold accents
15 Bella, orange-purple-red with silver accents
16 Bella, light grey with silver accents
17 Bella, apple green with silver accents
18 Bella, emerald with gold accents
19 Bella, royal blue with silver accents
20 Bella, purple with gold accents
21 Bella, red and blue with gold accents
22 Bella, red with silver accents
23 egyptian dress, turquoise with silver accents
24 Bella, olive with gold accents
25 Bella, peacock-coloured with silver and gold accents
26 Bella, very bright pink with silver accents
27 Pharaonics, soft pink
28 Pharaonics, blue
29 Bella, black with silver
30 egyptian, salmony-pinkish with silver accents
31 Madame Abla, green with gold accents

And then, I have two Thobe nashal, blue with gold accents and black with gold accents, a persian costume, an afghan costume, several indian sarees and salwar kameez, caftans...

Quite a collection, I think....
Pics of most costumes are on my homepage (the German gallery contains the newest pics).

Love, Sahira.

Originally Posted by jamielynn

wow. I was warned this was an expensive dance to get involved with. I hope some of ya'll have your closets insured!!! Especially all those Bellas!

My closet consists of three lovely costumes not made by me:
Madam Abla Royal Purple and Silver
Gold with Rhinestone Stars Egyptian
Lavender and Silver Turkish

All the others are made by me!

Snake Goddess Burgundy and Gold
Samia Gamal-ish Black and Silver
Samia Gamal-ish Baby Blue
Art Deco Pink and Black
Asymmetrical Blue and Black
Moons and Stars Silver and Graphite
Tribaret Black and Red
Tribaret Peacock and Gold Coin
Turkish Black and Silver
Turkish Lime and Turquoise
Turkish Vintage-style Red and Purple

Girl after my own heart!

Originally Posted by AlmeeBelly

Hi Valeskah,

this post confirm your good taste!! (I mean Arabesque skirts !!!!!)
I am putting an option on the gold one!!!! hi hi!!!!

Heh! Sure thing. I won't be getting rid of it anytime soon - it looks great with my gold bedlah and another colour skirt underneath :)

Ok, so I really dont need even one, but this is what I have now:

* Red "raqia" style bra and skirt
* Orange, pink and purple Pharaonix Butterfly (for sale)
* Orange multicolor Dahab
* pink and lavender Dahab
* Copper/brown/gold Hanan Bedlah w. lycra skirt (for sale)
* White tribal bra and skirt

Gold, copper, light blue, hot pink, orange, fuschia, yellow chiffon skirts
And I have 2 "ebay" bras, one hot pink, and one turquise.

*Incomming: Purple with teal accents Bella

There is about 20 costumes on my wishlist, highest up is a coin Pharaonix bedlah, a new Pharaonix Egyptian Beauty, Pharaonix Bejeweled, Pharaonix Venus/Maat, a Hoda, a gold bedlah, Melodias, pink, teal and blue bedlah bases...

I want to "see" Lulus closet! And Tanyas! And Monika Maheen!

I will add Katlyn's closet!

Originally Posted by EliAnn

I want to "see" Lulus closet! And Tanyas! And Monika Maheen!

This is great, comparing to some closet, i still can buy new costumes without feeling guilty!

Here's what i have:

two piece costumes

Purple and silver Nusa
Purple Joharah
Silver Eman
Dark blue Eman
Pink groovy costume
white and gold bedlah
leopard costume with some lila
burgundy costume
golden / brow costume

dresses
pink galabeya
dark red dress

Hi Sahira, I am sure this kind of thread still exist but on Bhuz, closets content is moving really fast!

Well yeah, but I personally do not sell so many of my beloved costumes. That's why my closet hasn't really "changed" - just sort of "grown"... *hahaha*

Bella addicted?

Yes - definitely!

I guess, we dancers are some sort of the following starsign: magpie, ascendent hamster...