Mermaid Bras Could Have More Uses

These past two weeks I have been working on my belly-dance choreographies, college apps (bleh) and best of all, some sweet belly-costumes... half sewn, half hot-glued. But since they aren't yet finished I will have to post two other great belly-dance costume substitutes. JoEllen Elam or Lillyxandra is an amazing costume designer, who sometimes lets us in on her secrets on her blog at fireflypath.com. The pictures below link to her instructions on making sweet sweet under the sea belly-dance bras that could easily be modified.

This green bra would only need a small shell tassel or some beads strung in half-circles in the middle to transform it into a dance costume. If you follow the links on the pictures you can see how JoEllen had covered the bra with lace, appliques and silk. Now imagine this in pink, red, orange, purple, anything... it would still look divine and not even necessarily mermaid like. 

 This next one would be a little harder to modify, but a little easier to make. If you use more ruffles all through out, or add a ton of small flower appliques evenly through out the middle however you can transform it into a perfect belly dance bra as well. This one might even look better with some fringe strung across the bottom!

If you look close, you will notice that the edges on the fabric didn't even need to be sewn in, they were just burned in an intricate, random pattern!

 One last reminder for those two awesome tutorials that I hope you dancers checked out. These would require halter straps for safety if you wish to dance in them, and the straps have to be covered!