{"id":10963,"date":"2026-08-04T19:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=10963"},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:07:29","slug":"rewriting-costuming-from-the-hip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2026\/08\/rewriting-costuming-from-the-hip\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting &#8220;Costuming From the Hip&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iFn-3DV5VNU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>I&#8217;m rewriting &#8220;Costuming From the Hip!&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>I know this is old news for many folk. I&#8217;ve been working on this project over the past year and there have been posts that have referenced this ongoing project.<\/p>\n<p>One of the subscribers to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/bellydance-mini-magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Belly Dance Mini-Magazine&#8221;<\/a> asked for more behind the scenes info about this project.\u00a0 I thought this would make a great video series so this is episode number one.<\/p>\n<p>And voila!\u00a0 This is the first episode in this series and if you click through to YouTube to watch, be sure to like and subscribe to my YouTube channel!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thank you for joining me on this adventure!<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Dawn ~ Davina<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Summer 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/1794763205\/costuming-from-the-hip-diy-belly-dance?ls=r&amp;sr_prefetch=1&amp;pf_from=shop_home&amp;ref=items-pagination-9&amp;dd=1&amp;content_source=22dd60d199d6ded31a0964a525a8f71f%253ALT317d95b6fa1c20c81b6f255659f7e20918951fd3&amp;logging_key=22dd60d199d6ded31a0964a525a8f71f%3ALT317d95b6fa1c20c81b6f255659f7e20918951fd3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10967\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2026\/08\/rewriting-costuming-from-the-hip\/screenshot-2026-08-04-at-6-59-52-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-6.59.52-PM.png?fit=692%2C517&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"692,517\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot 2026-08-04 at 6.59.52\u202fPM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-6.59.52-PM.png?fit=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-6.59.52-PM.png?fit=580%2C433&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10967\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-6.59.52-PM.png?resize=580%2C433&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-6.59.52-PM.png?w=692&amp;ssl=1 692w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-6.59.52-PM.png?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-6.59.52-PM.png?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2026\/08\/rewriting-costuming-from-the-hip\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>I&#8217;m rewriting &#8220;Costuming From the Hip!&#8221; I know this is old news for many folk. I&#8217;ve been working on this project over the past year and there have been posts that have referenced this ongoing project. One of the subscribers to the &#8220;Belly Dance Mini-Magazine&#8221; asked for more behind the scenes info about this project.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-2QP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10969,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions\/10969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}