I HIGHLY recommend Geisha Moth not only for her amazing range of items, quality, and style, but she's also devoted to her customers AND pretty much the hardest working women in the bellydance business. Her tribe has more posts and activity than I can keep up with. You absolutely NOT be ignored and overlooked.

tribes.tribe.net/geishamoth

may i just mention flying skirts?
www.flyingskirts.com/catalog...oi.shtml
www.flyingskirts.com/catalog...ab.shtml
www.flyingskirts.com/catalog...lx.shtml
ive been wearing gwen's stuff for years and the quality cant be beat. the pants are beautiful, comfy, billowy, beautifully made and gwen is always great to work with.

AAAANNNDDDD......
you should check out my friend joy's things as well:
tribes.tribe.net/gypsyredtribalthreads
www.etsy.com/shop/GypsyRedTribalThread
she takes custom orders and can pretty much make anything your heart desires. such a talented lady!

yeah i wear mine all the time too! that's probably how mine ripped, but as you say, it was easy to mend... i can't even tell where the tear was actually. :)

"There is no right body type and there is no perfect size. All women deserve to look foxy in their clothes."

*pumps fist* -- Right on.

such pretty stuff
arwensapparel.com/product/b...ypsy_skirt
i love the color of this skirt

Arwen is a wonderful person. Get that 2nd job, her stuff is worth it.

I don't think anyone is really getting upset over being called a 'larger' size, but that we're just baffled at what is being considered to be a larger size...there are beautiful and fabulous dancers of all sizes and it's not fair for us tiny women to be the only ones able to have the beautiful, fabulous clothes to go along with it...I don't believe that there is a 'normal' size...maybe there is an 'average' size, but even that is pretty open for interpretation.

That being said, it's really no easier to be on the small end of the spectrum, either...even tiny women have different body shapes and the main one I have always had to endure is my height...I'm 5'2" and I can never get anything that's not waaaay too long! Sure, you can hem some things with no problem and I was even able to just cut off a couple pairs of flares that I got, since the fabric doesn't ravel and most are made to look lettuce edged, anyhow...but when it comes to the multi-yard skirts, I'm pretty much out of luck...I end up having to roll the waistline so much that I look like I've got a swimmy float around my waist! Yes, those can be corrected, too...but I'm not enough of a seamstress to do it myself and unless I do get one custom made (which as a single mother, I generally can't afford), I either end up tripping over them or looking like a little girl trying to wear her mother's clothes!

Sooo, I can sympathise with having a problem finding clothes that fit...whether they're too long or too short, not big enough or small enough in the chest/shoulders/waist/butt...whatever...there's always something and I think all of us reserve the right to bitch about it!

i wasn't really upset with what she said, it was the way she said it that bothered me... and the fact that she made such a statement at all.

rather than saying, "oh we are out of most of our stock right now"...?

anyway, i'm over it... i'm glad to NOT be a melodia designs costumer.

Not to be mercenary, but I have a pair of size LX flare pants up now, which should fit a 20-22, in black lycra, and a set in velveteen snakeskin print. And I can take custom orders for even larger pants.
I have some wine velveteen glitter dot fabric I'd love to make into something amazing, but I don't want to cut it unless it has a good home to go to. That with some sheer black layered ruffles at the hip would be incredible.

Clearly in this case you're paying for the name. I'm sure they started as all handmade but as demand grew things changed.

I don't know anything about Melodia's profit margin or costs so I try not to criticize too much, since I get the 'your prices are too high" complaint myself sometimes yet I know I'm often *under*pricing my stuff. In this case, however, if the quality has indeed gone down while prices stay the same/go up then I guess we just vote with our wallets and go elsewhere.