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Zana · 11-02-2007, 09:36 PM

Fluff for a Friday, the end of a serious week:

I really want one of these, and I don't know why. Do I really want one of these?

I have a chance to buy a very plain galabeya in the Fifi/Aida mode, in a dark pink. It's not inexpensive so I shouldn't get it unless I convince myself that I'll actually dance in it. My vague idea is that I would wear it for a deliberately simple, "folky" set -- I'm hearing Musicians of the Nile in my head, thinking beledi, maybe some cane.

I am generally more of a beads-and-sequins girl, usually perform in a fancy dress, and even my two folkiest costumes are sparkly in their way: the fuchsia sequined caftan on my rudimentary website here and a red assuit dress. I also worry a bit about looking like a sack o' potatoes in anything that's not fitted: I have an hourglass figure, but it's a big hourglass and I fear the non-slinky costumes. But still, I really want one of these!

So my question to you is, do you have one? Do you like it? Do general-public sorts of audiences seem to "get" it or do they suspect you of having shown up in your nightgown? Or did you buy one in a moment of Fifi-inspired weakness and end up actually turning it into a nightgown? Particularly if you're fuller-figured, do you still feel attractive and feminine in it? If I have to think this hard about it, should I take that as a no? And did I mention that I really want one of these?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts, ideas, or reports from the field.

Suzana

11-02-2007, 09:36 PM	#1
Zana Master BHUZzer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,830	Simple galabeyas again -- useful or not? Fluff for a Friday, the end of a serious week: I really want one of these, and I don't know why. Do I really want one of these? I have a chance to buy a very plain galabeya in the Fifi/Aida mode, in a dark pink. It's not inexpensive so I shouldn't get it unless I convince myself that I'll actually dance in it. My vague idea is that I would wear it for a deliberately simple, "folky" set -- I'm hearing Musicians of the Nile in my head, thinking beledi, maybe some cane. I am generally more of a beads-and-sequins girl, usually perform in a fancy dress, and even my two folkiest costumes are sparkly in their way: the fuchsia sequined caftan on my rudimentary website here and a red assuit dress. I also worry a bit about looking like a sack o' potatoes in anything that's not fitted: I have an hourglass figure, but it's a big hourglass and I fear the non-slinky costumes. But still, I really want one of these! So my question to you is, do you have one? Do you like it? Do general-public sorts of audiences seem to "get" it or do they suspect you of having shown up in your nightgown? Or did you buy one in a moment of Fifi-inspired weakness and end up actually turning it into a nightgown? Particularly if you're fuller-figured, do you still feel attractive and feminine in it? If I have to think this hard about it, should I take that as a no? And did I mention that I really want one of these? Thanks in advance for any thoughts, ideas, or reports from the field. Suzana __________________ If no flirtation can be considered harmless, then we might as well stop making wine and music, too. (C.H.)