organising
my old photos, I found this photo ... me with the famous BellyDance
costume designer Madam Abla on my first visit to Egypt. I have 5
BellyDance dresses from her, and each cost me more than 1000€. Nowadays
you do not find that expensive dresses, just because they do them in a
low class production. Her dresses were amazing with all high quality
costumes, and I say were because the pass the way in 2007. I am sure God
has her on Heven 
Yvette Smith that's
true costumes now are made so cheaply in China...when I buy my flamenco
dresses I get them from Spain they are so beautiful...lately I been
making my own belly dancing costumes...
Amora Shams yes,
but also in Egypt most of the bellydance dresses you can find are low
quality nowadays. I know the places in Cairo where to buy the good
quality ones. I take my BBDC students there if they can afford them. The
last student I had teaching in Cairo, was a spanish private student, at
the beginning she only wanted to buy one dress, so I took her to the best
costume designer, because when you buy just one, you better waste your
money in a dress that will last you all your dance career and that has
to be so amazing that everyone watching you will say "wow", so i took
her to my favorite designer who is family of madam Abla, and my student
end up buying 8 of her costumes because they were all gorgeous, she
loved them all, and I managed to get them for lowest fee the designer
accepted. Normally a teacher gets commission from students, but not me. I
ask always the designers and shop owners to give to my students the
fees they want to get (without my commission) so this is how they get
low fees for their dresses. I am a known teacher in Cairo, and I am a
respected teacher towards the costume designers and shop owners because I
don't get commissions from my students, and everyone else does.
