the one costume or item you will never part with?

jesennia · 06-27-2007, 08:21 PM

what are you going to your grave with (figuratively speaking:)

do you have a music collection you adore?
a costume that is priceless?
photos ?

naiyahayal · 06-27-2007, 08:32 PM

"one"???? we only get to take one with us???????????? What if we are asked to do more than one set in the hereafter -- at least there won't be any shortage of Isis wings ............

Lauren_ · 06-28-2007, 01:12 AM

I'm hideously unsentimental. I'll sell anything to get my hands on another costume!

Certain footage of Dina (LA show, AWS) and Mona that I looooooove -- but those are on VHS, so I'll need to replace them someday with DVD copies. Still I'll always have them!

One old song I'll probably never stop dancing to, even though you'd all laugh at me if you knew what it was *cough Emad Sayyah cough*

I don't *think* I'll ever part with my Merkaba or my fire veil half-circles.

Everything else is in rotation.

koneko · 06-28-2007, 01:26 AM

My double veils (akai's of course) That really about it. I get attached to some thing when I first get it then it just becomes mundane (only a bder could say something with 8000 sequins is mundane

)

Is it to corny to say the experience of dancing/the dance community...
I'd give away all my sparklies to keep the memories.

ozma · 06-28-2007, 01:42 AM

Can I go to the grave with somoene else's costume?

tattood1 · 06-28-2007, 01:54 AM

my melos. my blk irad bedlah. dina at monte carlo. wrap me up in an akai. then burn me on a pyre & throw hubby on top, bbwwaa. tina

TanyaLV · 06-28-2007, 02:39 AM

Too funnY!

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Originally Posted by ozma

Can I go to the grave with somoene else's costume?

TanyaLV · 06-28-2007, 02:40 AM

I have one Bella that sits in a special drawer and is like my favorite one for sure! I take it out and look at it and put it back and only wear for very special occassions!

artemisia_danst · 06-28-2007, 05:23 AM

i dont think any. i LOVE them, and there is certainly some i would really never sell, but i dont think i'm THAT emotionally attached to any. if my house burned down i'd be mourning the money loss of those costumes, but they are not that irreplacable. i can go to the costume designers and get a new one made.

there's very few things that are irreplacable in life. (for me: a little note/ a scribble really, that my grandfather wrote to me when i was six, from his hospital bed, several pieces of jewelry related to my grandmother (who has died a few years ago) for example a ring i have that my godmother had made for me and that has my granny's last words ingraved in them, and maybe some old pictures, mostly of loved ones that are no longer there and where my own memory of how they looked is fading, those would really hurt if i lost them).

ok, sorry to get so serious ;-)

zumarrad · 06-28-2007, 05:37 AM

I love them all. ALL! My DNA is quite literally in all but one of my bedleh, dudes, what with the skin cells and occasional hair stitched in by mistake and spittle from when I've moistened the thread to get it through the needle, or held a needle or pins in my mouth... you don't think I'm putting that on the market, do you?

I have a couple of items that were my teacher's that are particularly precious, most especially her studio veil, which she gave me when she moved away and I started teaching more seriously. It is a lovely veil and has been used by Hadia as well *swoon* (once, in a workshop).

stardancer · 06-28-2007, 08:47 AM

I'm not sure that I will never part with this costume...sometimes s*it happens and you need the money or whatever. However, I can't see me giving this one up any time in the forseeable future. (Of course it looks way nicer on the beautious Sandra)

steffib · 06-28-2007, 08:59 AM

I have a belt I have been putting together for years, collecting pieces one by one. It's unique, it's mine, it fits like a glove, it would be very expensive to replace - I don't think I will ever part with that belt. And, I'm quite fond of my banjara collection - I have a few unique cholis that fit me perfectly (after many hours of painstakingly reworking them). These won't go anywhere, either.

aazura · 06-28-2007, 09:02 AM

I'm probably just a sentimental lush but I would have to say my first costume that I made myself. I'll keep forever, even though I never wear it anymore.

danielabellydance · 06-28-2007, 09:06 AM

I will never sell my turquoise Topkapi, because my fiance proposed to me in it!! (if you don't know the story, he popped the question after our drum solo in my student showcase).

kina · 06-28-2007, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by stardancer

I'm not sure that I will never part with this costume...sometimes s*it happens and you need the money or whatever. However, I can't see me giving this one up any time in the forseeable future. (Of course it looks way nicer on the beautious Sandra)

I still miss that one

but wait till you see my new black and pink! duet, duet!

My silver great loop, my gold fortune and fame/neckelman's hybrid, my leopard print lrose skirt, but the one that would kill me to lose would be the one and only costume I made for myself. Still the most comfortable costume I own.

06-28-2007, 09:34 AM

My silver great loop, my gold great loop and my copper great loop

aazura · 06-28-2007, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by danielabellydance

I will never sell my turquoise Topkapi, because my fiance proposed to me in it!! (if you don't know the story, he popped the question after our drum solo in my student showcase).

Great story and great pics Daniela! But like I said, I'm a sentimental lush!

tamrahennatx · 06-28-2007, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by stardancer

I'm not sure that I will never part with this costume...sometimes s*it happens and you need the money or whatever. However, I can't see me giving this one up any time in the forseeable future. (Of course it looks way nicer on the beautious Sandra)

I was drooling over this on her site yesterday. When you do get around to selling some of your lovelies, I want in!

tamrahennatx · 06-28-2007, 10:27 AM

Two costumes that I made myself I'll never ever sell. Both have a retro feel, and both are irreplaceable.

06-28-2007, 10:35 AM

I love the copper! You made them yourself! I am envious of your sewing talent.

I can barely sew a new hook on without a major disaster and cursing session!
LOVE the retro feel of that copper one....
bee-utiful!!!

tamrahennatx · 06-28-2007, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by *maria*

I love the copper! You made them yourself! I am envious of your sewing talent.

I can barely sew a new hook on without a major disaster and cursing session!
LOVE the retro feel of that copper one....
bee-utiful!!!

Thank you! The decorations are pieces of old jewelry and vintage-look Victorian-style Christmas ornaments I took apart to make the appliques.

Look closely, and you might be able to make out the metal tassels on the bra. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Since that project, I haven't completed anything else from scratch, although I have one stunning costume completed except for the beadwork, but I've been to busy or lazy to finish it. *hangs head in shame*

BTW, when I first started belly dancing, I didn't know how to sew. And yet, not six months after I started taking classes, there I was, making my first costume. Here's a pic of my very first. I wish I still had it, for nostalgia's sake.