Junior Bellydance Costuming

     I have two kids, and because they wanted to be a part of my shows, I made them costumes.  The first costume I bought for my daughter was from a bellydance swap meet when she was really little.  She wore it a lot, to many of my shows.  When I used to perform for one of the classes I took, my kids and the instructor's daughter would dance together in the "pre-show," which was really cute.  The next thing I did was sew a vest for my son so he wouldn't feel left out.  Eventually, my daughter grew out of the pink pants outfit so I had to make her a new costume. In the interim, she wore a princess outfit.

     I finished a pair of purple harem pants and matching vest for her, adding some hot pink fringe and making a "belt," which was attached to the pants. I added some flowers to embellish it.  I also made a pair of plain blue harem pants for my son.  They ended up wearing them to my first class shows which I produced from teaching my own classes.  I used scraps of fabric leftover from stuff I had in my fabric stash.

     These outfits were good for a year or so, and then I had to make new ones as they outgrew these.
I was gifted some beautiful "sari" fabric (I was told it was a sari but it looked like fabric to me) from my mother in law.  I used two different patterns to create a top and skirt for my daughter.  I used two different patterns since I wanted the top from Simplicity 3626 but she wanted a skirt, so I had to use Simplicity 0633 for the bottom. My daughter danced on the stage at the local festivals where I was dancing in her cute costumes!