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Old 04-14-2007, 07:41 AM   #5
cathyfelgar
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I ordered my first professional level costume from them in January, it arrived in about 8 weeks. Overall, I am very happy and would definitely order from them again. The fit was very good! The guy's name is Kamal Moustafa and the customer service was good. The color lycra I chose was "dark green" on the website, and is much brighter than I was expecting, but I do like it. And the beading was different & much more elaborate and fancy than I was expecting! Plus they gave me two sets of gauntlets (long and short) and the headband--I was only expecting one set. This turned out to be a very good thing because I have decided to alter the dress style from a neck halter strap to attaching the straps to the back of the dress and I will use the extra pair of gaunlets to extend the straps. Reason I am doing this is because when I moved the hooks on the neck strap to make it secure enough to hold up the front of the dress, it pulls on the back of my neck and also, the back of the dress (which is just pure stretchy lycra) sinks down during performance (two performances in this costume so far). But the dress looks great on me and the beadwork and fringe is really great, well worth the cost, better than expected. And from what I understand this level of alteration (while advanced for my skills) is considered not that big a deal by more experienced dancers. My only other small complaint is that the rhinestones have been falling out of their little settings but they are easy enough to replace. And I wasn't expecting any rhinestones in the first place!