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Originally Posted by Eshta
I've been trying to write up a review of the festival but it keeps ending up garbled! I will get there eventually though!
I don't know what the norm is there, but I noticed a lot of 'traditional' styles: what my friend refers to as "christmas trees" and I assume these are designed with the foreign dancer in mind. Usually a 2 piece bra & heavily embroidered skirt, I'm sure you know the ones I mean.
Caroline, I befriended Fariz & Dalia of Oriental Moon of Cairo, who were asking if I knew you! They had a superb collection of costumes, I fell in love with a different one by the day, and bought one for me and one for Nafiseh for her wedding present (2 more weeks, yikes!) and am sure I will be a regular customer of theirs in the future! I bought a costume with shorts underneath with a heavy lace skirt over the top embroidered with silk flowers & big jewelstones, I'm not describing it very well but I feel like a princess in it!
There were also a lot of more moderny more 'minimalist' designers too - Aida Nour's collection was there, and a lot of copies by other designers in similar styles. There was a lot of diamante & a lot of reflective "liquid metal" material too.
Personally, I'm thrilled to see that the mini-skirt look appears to have gone back out of fashion!
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I know the costume you are talking about and they are gorgous! I have bought quite alot from them over the past six months. They have some really beautiful designs.
Aida Nours costumes are usually of a similar type and so are Raqias, I was curious as I know they work like carzy on the festival stuff (sometimes at the expenmse of their regular orders) to compete for something new and different.
The stuff from the local bazaars tend to be designs based on what they think the dancers want and the 'foreign' market.
Fady will be at Raqs Britannia in Blackpool for their first visit to the UK.