Join the "I Hate Harem Pants" Club

[lizajuk]

[quote=Melita;5724] My mother/daughter class is in pastel satin. Sad I know but I let that class chose costume by vote and that is what they decided on...oh well, the little girls will look adorable in it.


I guarantee the little girls will....as for anyone over 30...tee hee

[Samira_dncr]

This is a tiny pet peeve...and certainly might offend many folks out there.

I really don't like veils used for dancing unless they are silk. I don't know if this is as much a HATE veils thing or more of a LOVE silk thing. But regardless...I don't ever love watching veil work if it isn't silk. (perhaps with the exception of Isis wings...which is altogether different).

And I do also hate harem pants, glitter dot, hermes sandals, 80s headbands, hair gardens...and all the other grotesque & cheap trailer-trash types of costumes.

I think it would be really funny for someone with outstanding photoshop skills to put together all the horrible offending costume pieces into one image. hahahahaha!!!

--Samira
www.bellydanceintensive.com

[kiyaana]

Originally Posted by tattood1

*sniff* i like glitter dot. tina

But have you actually sewn something with glitter dot? One cannot truly understand glitter dot unless one has sat at his/her machine and cursed every ten stitches or so as the needle gums up and the thread breaks, even though the "proper" needle (according to the internet and the ladies at the store) is being used and rubbing alcohol is at the ready for wiping off the needle. The experience is truly heinous.

[tattood1]

actually i sew by hand. i've made most of my cossies. reference my avatar. tina

[kiyaana]

Originally Posted by tattood1

actually i sew by hand. i've made most of my cossies. reference my avatar. tina

Ah, hand-sewing must be the key to enjoying the sparkle of glitter dot!

[mish_mish]

Originally Posted by Nisima

my husband took and instant dislike to them and calls them "Jesus Shoes" -
--Nisima

HAHAHAHAH! Your husband is IN the club!

[mish_mish]

Originally Posted by Asra*

Mish Mish, AKA Miss Double Apricot!

Apricot Squared

[*Shira*]

I dislike sewing with glitter dot for the same reasons others have mentioned, but I do think it looks great on stage.

I'd rather wear Hermes sandals than injure my feet. If you don't like it, don't look at my feet.

I'm not a big fan of harem pants, but I think they're okay for troupes who are on a limited budget, and I think they're okay if the skirt is too skimpy to stand on its own. I've never liked the big balloony clown pants that tribal dancers wear under their full skirts, I prefer a narrower cut.

[artemisia_danst]

they sell 'em though

Originally Posted by mish_mish

Those go with a muu-muu, not a Bella.

Originally Posted by mish_mish

Faster Glitterdot, Kil! Kill!

Four pairs of harem pants, Lurex, Tissue Lame, Sheer & Glitterdot, embark on a worldwide FATTENING rampage!

FASTER, Glitterdot! Kill Kill
has GOT to be a new bhuz-ism. I have been laughing hysterically for a half an hour now, waking up my husband, dog, kids, and freaking my cat out....
too too funny.

I too hate glitterdot.

I am also sitting here looking at a stack of tacky home made harem pants from the 70's in those boxes of bellydance stuff I inherited. They are EVIL!
I don't want to sell them and foist them onto an unsuspecting public, I may just keep them boxed up and out of reach.....

[mish_mish]

Zumarrad's "Sisterhood of the Fattening Pants" did the same thing to me. My husband was looking at me in wonder as I sat on the couch in hysterics in front of my laptop!

I guess I've watched one too many Russ Meyer films.

[kenya]

Balloon sleeves. Also, the cropped bra covers with the balloon sleeves. There is something very 80s about that look.
Any type of harems, hermes sandals, glass/plastic lamp fringe (sorry, it screams homemade), wall of fringe on bras. I like very minimal fringe and more creative design.

[mish_mish]

Oh, balloon sleeves.

Bleh.

balloon sleeves are disastrous - bellydance or no, one tends to look like
"I Pagliacci" (the opera - the Italian clown)

[artemisia_danst]

guilty of putting my first attempt at a student troupe in harem pants. well, bella calls these "tulips". it was the only garment they could all agree on/afford. i got one hanging around here to sell if anyone wants one. somehow they looked ok in it i think, i totally hate it on myself.

[tigerb]

Glitterdot. OK. Bad to sew with. Bad bad bad. Uncomfortable to wear -- certainly. Smells like petrochemicals -- totally.

However. For a very simple garment in a non-fluorescent color, it can work. I did a Cleopatra outfit (not a dance costume) with the shift in white glitterdot with iridescent dots, and it looked great.

Would I cover a troupe with it? Nope! And my sewing machine would probably rise up in rebellion!

"Glitterdot isn't evil, what people use it for is evil"

[mish_mish]

But Glitterdot IS man made. (Or is it woman made?) So we only have ourselves to blame.

[ozma]

Originally Posted by mish_mish

But Glitterdot IS man made. (Or is it woman made?) So we only have ourselves to blame.

(Affecting a Sci-Fi voice of doom)
"When will we learn, just because Science can make it, doesn't mean that we humans SHOULD make it! That way only leads to madness, Glitter dot MADNESS I tell you!!!"

ps. Tissue lame is made of people...

[mish_mish]

Tissue Lame is...PEOPLE!?

[indigostars]

Originally Posted by artemisia_danst

guilty of putting my first attempt at a student troupe in harem pants. well, bella calls these "tulips". it was the only garment they could all agree on/afford. i got one hanging around here to sell if anyone wants one. somehow they looked ok in it i think, i totally hate it on myself.

I think those pants are adorable. They solve the skirt and pants dilemma for me. Where did you get them?

[artemisia_danst]

they are from bella. they call them "tulips", come in several colours. i think they were like somewhere between 70 and 90E