Product Details:
Spiral-Bound: 120 pages
Product Dimensions:
       10.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
Publisher: Ibexa Press © 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0-9678170-0-5
MSRP: $20.00 USD

Costuming from the Hip
By Dawn Devine and Barry Brown

Costuming from the Hip is a comprehensive reference for anyone who works with Middle Eastern dancewear. Dancers, costume makers, designers, and historical re-enactors will like the many illustrations, historical patterns, construction techniques, and hundreds of hints and tips. This 120-page book will take you step-by-step through measuring your body, researching your costume, laying out the patterns, fitting it, and accessorizing your creation.

Detailed topics include:

• Making your measurement chart
• Turkish coats, kaftans, and thobes
• Veils
• Jewelry
• Designing for every body type
• Coin, tassle, and cabaret belts
• Bras and cholis
• Shirts, vests, and blouses
• Men's wear
• Going professional.

An extensive bibliography and a list of mail-order resources is included.

About the Author - Dawn Devine
Dawn Devine is a costume historian and belly dancer living in California's San Francisco Bay Area. She has been dancing for over fifteen years and has been designing historical costumes nearly all her life.
She has degrees in both Art History and Fashion Design.

For more information visit her website: www.davina.us