{"id":1728,"date":"2012-01-20T14:03:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2012-05-11T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T23:04:45","slug":"top-10-reasons-to-make-a-new-belly-dance-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/top-10-reasons-to-make-a-new-belly-dance-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Reasons to Make A New Belly Dance Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1729\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1729\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/top-10-reasons-to-make-a-new-belly-dance-costume\/assiut-adrianabra-bw-small\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small.jpg?fit=288%2C406&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"288,406\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Adriana wearing custom bra by Dawn Devine &amp;#8211; Visit her website to find out more about this lovely professional dancer and instructor. http:\/\/www.adrianabellydance.com\/&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small.jpg?fit=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small.jpg?fit=288%2C406&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1729   \" title=\"Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small.jpg?resize=288%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Adriana - Bay Area Belly Dancer wearing Assiut Bra - \" width=\"288\" height=\"406\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adriana wearing custom bra by Dawn Devine - Visit her website to find out more about this lovely professional dancer and instructor. http:\/\/www.adrianabellydance.com\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Top 10 Reasons to Make a New Costume<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>10 &#8211; You have been taking classes for a year and your teacher said those magic words &#8216;Recital.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>9 &#8211; Your best dance buddy got a beautiful new costume and she wants to do a duet.<\/p>\n<p>8 &#8211; You finally have enough cash to afford a lovely piece of assuit or other equally expensive and drop-dead gorgeous fabric.<\/p>\n<p>7 &#8211; You&#8217;ve lost\/gained 30 lbs and have earned a whole new wardrobe to go with your fabulous new figure!<\/p>\n<p>6 &#8211; You just took a Gypsy-esqe workshop and now need a new full skirt to dance with.<\/p>\n<p>5 &#8211; This season&#8217;s &#8216;In&#8217; color isn&#8217;t IN your wardrobe &#8211; yet.<\/p>\n<p>4 &#8211; There&#8217;s a show coming up and EVERYONE has seen every costume you own.<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; You couldn&#8217;t resist that shimmy belt, and now you need a whole ensemble to go with it!<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; You just saw someone else wearing that Exclusive, Custom, Designer original you bought at the last festival.<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Because you CAN!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks goes out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrianabellydance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adriana<\/a> who is one of the featured models in my upcoming book about assiut\/assiut costuming. \u00a0Visit her website for more details about her performances and classes throughout the greater San Francisco\/Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/top-10-reasons-to-make-a-new-belly-dance-costume\/\"><img width=\"106\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small.jpg?fit=106%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Adriana - Bay Area Belly Dancer wearing Assiut Bra -\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-attachment-id=\"1729\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/top-10-reasons-to-make-a-new-belly-dance-costume\/assiut-adrianabra-bw-small\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small.jpg?fit=288%2C406&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"288,406\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Adriana wearing custom bra by Dawn Devine &amp;#8211; Visit her website to find out more about this lovely professional dancer and instructor. http:\/\/www.adrianabellydance.com\/&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small.jpg?fit=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small.jpg?fit=288%2C406&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><p>Top 10 Reasons to Make a New Costume 10 &#8211; You have been taking classes for a year and your teacher said those magic words &#8216;Recital.&#8217; 9 &#8211; Your best dance buddy got a beautiful new costume and she wants to do a duet. 8 &#8211; You finally have enough cash to afford a lovely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[45,8,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assiut-assuit","category-belly-dance","category-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Assiut-AdrianaBra-BW-Small.jpg?fit=288%2C406&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-rS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","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=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}