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Skirting the Issues and Pants for the Dance
By Dawn Devine
Skirting the Issues and Pants for the Dance
are now two great books in one! These combined volumes of Dawns' Belly
Dance Costume Essentials series into a single edition,
Skirting the Issues & Pants for the Dance. Designed for
dancers, designers and costume makers, this book offers
hundreds of ideas, tips and hints for crafting original,
beautiful and well-constructed belly dance attire.
This book is lavishly illustrated with instructions for
how to take your body measurements and draft your own
custom fit patterns.
Skirting the Issues focuses on the wide variety of
popular and easy to sew skirt styles for belly dancing
costumes. The first half of this book presents dozens of
skirt designs; including straight skirts, full skirts,
circular skirts, tiered skirts, skirt toppers and loads
of variations. It includes an invaluable circle-skirt
calculation chart for making a skirt with a perfectly
fitted hip line.
Pants for the Dance addresses the exciting design
possibilities for one of the most ubiquitous yet unsung
garments in the dancer’s wardrobe, pants! Go beyond the
basic harem style and explore the variety of options for
creating pants for male and female dancers alike.
The book includes directions for making harem pants,
gusseted pants, draped pants, and dozens of details such
as fitted yokes, cuffs and applied surface designs.
From taking your measurements to drafting the patterns,
from construction to final embellishment, Skirting the
Issues and Pants for the Dance is an invaluable resource
for belly dance costume designers. This book is jam-packed
with design concepts, detailed directions and helpful
hints for bringing your costuming ideas to life. Even if
you are not a belly dancer, the basic designs featured
throughout this book are great for adapting into casual,
comfortable ethnic inspired street wear.
Item Code: BK-009
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