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Originally Posted by steffib
The FCBD choli is based on the Indian garment. Carolena Nericcio has done her homework and studied the roots and construction of ethnic garments. I recommend Vol. 2 from the FCBD video series, where she talks about this.
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This. The only thing that gets revealed in that choli is the back, which is quite sexy in its way, but generally unless you are VERY busty and/or wearing a bra underneath, it flattens and hides the breasts, and the addition of the sleeves also makes it look more modest IMO. If you add giant opaque pants and a big skirt and a turban, the ONLY bits of body that are exposed by FCBD costuming are the torso below the bustline and the back. No long girly hair, no cleavage, no leg. Facial tattoos. It's not conventionally "sexy" though it is quite beautiful.
However there is a sleeveless choli that a lot of tribal dancers seem to like to wear now, and quite a lot of the ones round here wear saucy contrasting lingerie bras under them in such a way as to show through, while others just wear a coin bra. Loose hair and flowers add to a more conventional feminine presentation. I do think some of the developments in tribal costuming here reflect temperature - Australian and NZ dancers don't like being swaddled in eleventy layers of fabric in the middle of summer - though I always got the impression that SF, being in California, would be, you know, hot anyway.