[TediThomas]

Then again... For a performance I did at a restaurant some time back I had decided to wear a dance dress for one of my sets instead of bedlah. During the middle of that set I overhead a woman comment to her friend (yep, in the middle of the performance and loud enough to be heard over the music *and* finger cymbals) something along the lines of: she could put on a dress and be a bellydancer (since I was wearing a "dress" and was not showing vast expanses of flesh as she had expected to see). Not my usual reaction from the gp/an audience member, so costuming can have a huge impact upon people's reactions to the dance (and I guess I can add that this could go either way).