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Originally Posted by Souzan
Dahlal could do great service and gain some loyal customers by stocking attractive plus size dresses and designs that flatter larger body types. Some of the hourglass shaped Pharoanics or some figure skimming rather than figure hugging numbers would appeal to many larger dancers. Plus some larger cups in bras. Costumes for plus sized dancers can't just be the same costume made larger.
Souzan
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I've always thought exactly the same thing. I can barely find costumes that fit around my ribcage, never mind helping my daughter or students who have much fuller figures than mine!
But when I went with Andrea on her buying trip to Cairo, I learned that a 'plus size' costume to the designers & manufacturers there is maybe a 36C! 95% of the costumes available are about a 34B.
So don't be too hard on Dahlal & the others, it's not like Cairo is full of figure-flattering plus-size costumes that they're refusing to stock. Andrea and I deliberately asked for larger costumes, over and over, everywhere we went, and we just got blank looks.
I suspect it's because in Cairo, while everyone may dance to some degree or another, only the pros are wearing costumes?