Costume Finished!
I hope to get better photos at the show on Sunday but here we go!
RomaFest is this Sunday. I am having some strong imposter syndrome feelings but I know I love to dance.
I didn’t have time to make something from scratch nor the money to buy anything that would be of the same quality as my handmade skirts.
And when I make skirts I generally make GIANT HUGE SKIRTS.
So I took an existing skirt I'd bought used and changed it up instead. I also made it a narrower skirt, more like my favorite teacher Reyhan Tuzsuz would wear.
I think I invested about 20$ in trim for this project, which is cheap.Final skirt and general outfit (sans accessories):
I'd also literally made the vest top from pieced together fabric scraps from a too-small pair of fancy dance pants someone gave me for the fabric. I did that in 2017 here.
I've decided to give a body stocking a try. Not out of feeling insecure about my tummy but because Turkish Roma women who dance often do NOT show their stomachs and feel like that's a better choice for me to make when participating in a festival about Roma music and dance.If you're wondering about Roma/Romani people and wonder why my dance costumes look like what you'd describe as "g*psy" costuming, here's a fine start to why I don't use that word and you probably shouldn't either
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