How to Make Belly Dancing Costumes

As we know, the belly dancing costumes are expensive, most of the people can not afford it, so many of them turn to making the bell dance costumes by themselves. This costume includes two major parts: a top and a skirt.

A charming belly dancing top can be very attractive to display your personal charm, we can find that trim a tight-fitting top is best for showing your arms and tummy,We will made a brief introduction for the making of belly dance’s top.

1. We can remove the straps and sides that is from the bra in order to get a firm cup, the size of cup is larger than your normally wear.
2. Applying 2 coats of satin fabric cover cups, but we must leave the 1st coat dry overnight before applying the second coat, because it can added shape and strength before you start adding decorations. Then hand sew decorative fabric over each bra cup and center section.
3. We can choose any belly dancing fabric which printed in Mid-Eastern pattern.
4. Prepare a chain-link belt wrapped around the midriff, we can measure the length between the cup and the center of back body ,and measure the width the width around to center back.
5. Decorate your bra by sewing beads, sequins to the cups, straps and back on bra,hung the necklaces, earrings or strands of beads on the midriff.
6. Sewn on the bra with the hook to the back straps.

belly dancing skirt

Make the Belly Dancing Skirt
1. Select the best belly dancing fabric, I think the polyester chiffon is the best choose, it have different colors, it is difficult to wrinkle when you wash it. Another fabric is the silk chiffon , it will have a good effect when accompanied with the large silk veil. If you like tribal style, you can select the old black cotton sheeting.
2. Cut and fold the panels, you can measure the side of hips in order to calculate how much belly dancing fabric you need, you can also cut the panels in the store. Then fold each panel in half.
3. Sew your belly dancing panels all together in a row, there will have any different at the bottom..
4. Hang the skirt on a clamping slack hanger ,let it grow longer for a week or two, because the weight of skirt belly dancing panels fabric will stretch the bias, the last put on the skirt and uncut the bottom fabric of belly dancing.