Kick-ass panel skirts

I'm actually a huge fan of the panel skirt-as-overlay look for all forms of raqs.  I think it does wonders for adding, among other things, "depth", if you will, to a costume.  By layering on top, it breaks up a lower half of the body that can be otherwise rather monochromatic, esp. in comparison to the complex bras that dancers tend to wear.  Panel skirt overlays tend to avoid that, brining a well-coordinated* OOMPH! to the costume that does most dancers, of all shapes and sizes, quite some good.

This style differs from the "leggy panel skirt" design that we dancers see often in various forms of so-called "Nightclub"-focused bedlah.  That style may look good on a certain type of women, yet it can be, as an "mainstream acceptable" fashion for dancers, confined to that narrow class of narrow-assed women.  The dancer in me sees little room for that style in a troupe of the kind of variety and power I like to see on stage.







*  Hopefully well-coordinated, I should say!