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DETAILS OF DECORATION 61 ANCIENT ASSYRIAN COSTUME Plate XIII.—A facsimile drawing, from an enameltile, is one of the many representations of the KingAssur-nasir-pal, ninth century B.C. The description ofhis dress will be better understood by referring toFigs. 34, 35, and 36.
A common bedlah costume. The bedlah is a dance costume and attire normally worn by women. The word bedlah is Arabic for "suit". In the world of belly dance and raqs sharqi the term bedlah refers simply to the costume that a dancer wears. Most commonly it is used to refer to the matched set of bra and belt that cabaret dancers use, but ...
A PRIESTESS 33 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSTUME The fourth division of Egyptian costume is shown inthe examples on Plate X. and pp. 33, 34, and 35.These are the draped or shawl type of costume.They have many resemblances to the draping of thewell-known Indian sari of modern times. Comparethese with illustration of sari (p. 39).
Egyptian men often wear a galabiya, and may wear a taqiya, sometimes with a turban. A sidari may be worn under the galabiya. [25] Egyptian men do not typically wear jewelry in the modern day, though they may wear prayer beads. The modern galabiya has a low scooped neckline with a slit in the bottom. Sometimes this slit has buttons to close it.
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The modern Egyptian belly dance style and the modern belly dance costumes of the 19th century were featured by the Awalim. [31] For example, many of the dancers in Badia's Casinos went on to appear in Egyptian films and had a great influence on the development of the Egyptian style and became famous, like Samia Gamal and Taheyya Kariokka , both ...
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ancient egyptian costume plate ii. Plate II., which dates 1700 b.c. also first century B.C.,is an exact copy of an Egyptian drawing of a womanwearing a species of tunic with braces (plan. Fig. 1).The striped decoration upon this tunic is suggestedby the lines of another type of Egyptian dress—namely,the drawn-up skirt.