i have a beautifull red bella costume. custom made, red and gold, that always has had some bad karma for me.
- i had to refuse the first one bella made (wrong colour, wrong size, etc). i was especially unhappy they could not find a chiffon that matched the velvet
- it took 9 months to finally get the costume. (with a matching skirt though!)
- it was part of an argument with my ex-company.
but it's beautifull, so i let go of the funny feelings and used it a little bit. red is the only colour me and two other dancers have bella's from the same style in, so it gets used the rare time (two three times per year) we need to match. me and aurea got new matching bella's (in red) but that doenst match with the red one our third dance friend has, so i had to keep this one.
but now saterday, the skirt got ripped!!!!
we are rehearsing for an artsy fartsy show with pragha khan, the scene we are in involves a big red sofa on wheels that the actress is sitting on; and that needs to move across the stage quite a bit. we dance a mix of belly dance and contemporary. when rehearsing i told the director: there is no way we can do that in our belly dance costumes. he was all "oh, you dancers, dont you know by now, we make the choreography first, that's the most important and then comes the costuming", me: "well, that's all good and well but a wide skirt has very different ways you can move with it that a narrow one or trousers, and what we are making now will not work with our traditional bellydance costumes" (and that's what they wanted us to wear).
so, saterday, we rehearse in costume, and the sofa runs over the skirt of my red bella (beautifull deep red; expensive chiffon, much nicer than bella's usual chiffon). result: one giant rip!!!
i was/am very upset.
so
- now we dont have costumes for the show. and it's friday. we will probably end up wearing black jazz pants with a belt on top. we will no longer look like they want us to look like and we dont even have matching trousers.
- i dont know what to do with this costume now.
i paid 700E for it originally. i could sell the bra and belt, sleeves and head band? not sure what to ask for it. it's in mint condition, well, except for the skirt now! and then i get a new red bella...
or i get a new skirt for it and keep it.
ok, no real questions really, just wanted to vent/share my little story.
it's funny, they are just clothes/costume items really, but i get so attached to them, i almost started crying when it ripped.
You're so smart.
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