This category contains all items that are Hand Held and Accessorize an outfit or costume that do not fit into other specific categories. Examples are Burlesque items such as Fans and Boas, Other items like for performers, dancers and costume accessories as well as high fashion, including parasols, zills (belly dancing) and more.
- Feathers used in the creation of any products we source are naturally moulted and legally obtained. We do NOT support sources that obtain feathers from any other method. Items of this nature will never be available in m2mCollections. As they are naturally moulted, depending on the type of bird species the feathers come from, there may be times where long waitiing periods are experienced while waiting for the next moulting season. Also once these feathers are collected, they are then carefully inspected and chosen only when meet the highest level of quality.
- If a product states it is able to be ordered yet shows out of stock, please ask us how long before new stock arrives, as these items DO move quickly. We can hold backorder items for you if you contact us in time. We do reserve a nominal amount to offer in our store, so backordering is also limited by this.
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Feather Fan Burlesque Showgirl Accessory Pink
Burlesque, Showgirl or Flapper Hand Held Fan Pink Hand Made Individually with the utmost care and precision by artist Truly Fallen Black Fan with Pink Feathers and Black Feather Edging. THESE SELL OUT FAST! This item may be possible to be order but not guaranteed Description and Images courtesy of the Artist Estylissimo. Copyright status belongs to the artist, including the design.  $18.70
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Feather Fan Burlesque Showgirl Costume Accessory Red
Burlesque, Showgirl or Flapper Hand Held Fan Red Hand Made Individually with the utmost care and precision by artist Truly Fallen Black Fan with Red Feathers and Black Feather Edging. THESE SELL OUT FAST! This item may be possible to be order but not guaranteed Description and Images courtesy of the Artist Estylissimo. Copyright status belongs to the artist, including the design. $18.70
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Feather Fan Burlesque Showgirl Costume Accessory White and Peacock
Burlesque, Showgirl or Flapper Hand Held Fan White and Peacock Feathers Hand Made Individually with the utmost care and precision by artist Truly Fallen White Fan with White Feathers and Natural Peacock Feather Edging. THESE SELL OUT FAST! This item may be possible to be order but not guaranteed Description and Images courtesy of the Artist Estylissimo. Copyright status belongs to the artist, including the design. $18.70
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Feather Boa Burlesque Showgirl Costume Accessory Proffesional Grade
Burlesque, Showgirl or Flapper Feather Boa Professional Performers’ Quality Hand Made Individually with the utmost care and precision by artist Victoria Velvet White and Black Feather Boa. Long, Thick and Luxurious! Heavy weight white tipped in black extra fluffy and delicious theater quality Boa. This item may be possible to be order but not guaranteed Description and Images courtesy of the Artist Victoria Velvet. Copyright status belongs to the artist, including the design. $22.70
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Zills Belly Dance Finger Cymbols Brass Proffesionally Tuned
Studio Inta’s Bellyz specializes in Belly Dance Costumes and Accessories These finger cymbals/zills are made with fine quality brass and come with elastic to custom fit! This item is professionally tuned with sweet sound. They come in a small elegant carry bag decorated to match. Description and Images courtesy of the Artist Inta’s Bellyz. Copyright status belongs to the artist, including the design. $35.00
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Parasol Gothic Mourning Hand Beaded and Lace
Hand made with care by Studio Artist LizmPetro This umbrella in covered in fine blace lace. The spines area adorned with black braided trim and the edge is lined with velvet trim. A 3" beaded trim drips from the edging. The umbrella measure 20" long and 24" wide. All embelishments are hand sewn on.  Description and Images courtesy of the Artist Studio Lizmpetro. Copyright status belongs to the artist, including the design. $95.00
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What Wiki Says About Zills, Parasols, Feather Boas....
Zills, also zils or finger cymbals, (from Turkish zil, "cymbals") are tiny metallic cymbals used in belly dancing and similar performances. They are called sājāt (صاجات) in Arabic. They are similar to Tibetan tingsha bells.
A set of zills consists of four cymbals, two for each hand. Modern zills come in a range of sizes, the most common having a diameter of about 5 cm (2 in). Different sizes and shapes of zills will produce sounds that differ in volume, tone and resonance. For instance, a dancer performing with an orchestra will use a larger zill with more volume, whereas a cabaret dancer will use a zill with a more delicate sound. American Tribal dancers typically use a much larger zill with a more mellow tone.
Makers of zills commonly use brass rather than the bronze used for larger cymbals, but they may also employ many other alloys. They may plate some zills in order to give a silvery colour or a brighter surface. Performance zills vary in appearance and may be shiny, dull, plain or engraved.
Modern dancers use elastic to secure the zills, one to the thumb and one to the middle finger of each hand. Professional zills have two slots to allow the threading of the elastic through the zill, whereas cheaper versions (including tourist versions) have only one hole.
Zills can be played in several ways, to produce either ringing tones or a harsh "clack" sound.
Zills belong to the standard instruments used in Ottoman military bands and also occasionally appear as part of Western orchestral or other musical performances. In these cases musicians usually just call them finger cymbals and use them to obtain a ringing sound with "Middle Eastern" associations. Percussionists playing finger cymbals sometimes use a less complicated technique than the traditional one used by dancers. The musician holds one cymbal in each hand by gripping the strap between the thumb and the index finger, and plays them by striking the rims together. They use this technique for occasional flourishes in the music rather than for complex rhythms and sounds.
There are many many rhythms in belly dancing music that can be spelled out in finger cymbal playing:[3]
- triplets (left/right/left/pause – “giddyup, giddyup, giddyup”)
- quads (L/R/L/R/no pause)
- beledi (dum/dum/tek-a-tek/dum-tek-a-tek)
- chiftatelli (dum/dum/tek-a-tek/dum/dum/dum – “John went to the sea; caught. three. fish.”)
- ayub (dum/a-tek-tek – “buy more shoes, and…buy more shoes, and . . .,”)
- bolero (dum/tek-a-tek-tek/dum/dum/dum/dum – “I want to be a belly dancer”)
Parasols Vs Umbrellas
An umbrella or parasol (also called a brolly, rainshade, sunshade, gamp or bumbershoot) is a canopy designed to protect against rain or sunlight. The term parasol usually refers to an item designed to protect from the sun; umbrella refers to a device more suited to protect from rain.
Umbrella is another synonym for the term parasol, which was first used as a protection against the scorching heat of the sun, "para" meaning stop or shield and "sol" meaning sun. The word "umbrella" has evolved from the Latin "umbella" (an "umbel" is a flat-topped rounded flower) or "umbra," meaning "shaded."
In Britain, umbrellas are sometimes called "gamps" after the character Mrs. Gamp in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit, because she was known for often carrying an umbrella.
In Randle Cotgrave's "Dictionary of the French and English Tongues" (1614), the French Ombrelle is translated
"An umbrello; a (fashion of) round and broad fanne, wherewith the Indians (and from them our great ones) preserve themselves from the heat of a scorching sunne; and hence any little shadow, fanne, or thing, wherewith women hide their faces fro the sunne."
Feather Boas
Feather boas have been documented for use as an adornment since at least 1820, but they might have been worn as early as the 17th century. Feather boas have fallen in and out of fashion many times over the years. Feather boas have had the reputation of being elegant as well as being considered campy or vulgar apparel.
Some historic eras where feather boas were in style or trendy include: the late Victorian era and Edwardian era (between 1890 and 1915), the 1920s, the 1970s during the glam rock and Disco music eras, the late 1990s, and into the early 21st century.
Entertainers have long used feather boas as part of their act. A few feather boa wearers include: dancer Isadora Duncan; singer Shirley Bassey; actor/comedian Mae West; wrestlers Jesse Ventura, Marc Bolan of the glam rock band, T.Rex, Superstar Billy Graham, and Hulk Hogan; singers Scott Weiland, Celia Cruz, Cher, and Elton John; and numerous other opera and cabaret singers. Singer and comic book writer Gerard Way has been known to wear a boa while performing.
Social clubs such as the Red Hat Society, or those who are involved with historic re-enactment societies wear boas at meetings while they are often worn as a costume accessory for parties around holiday seasons such as Halloween or Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Feather boas are worn for erotic seduction purposes, and are at times considered fetish wear. A nude performer may use a boa to cover herself while teasing her audience.
Types of Boa Constructon
Ostrich — Thousands of long thin feather strands woven into ply are used to construct these very fluffy boas. These form the larger, Las Vegas showgirl type boas, as when they are coloured and woven into many ply, they can look very dramatic even at a distance.
Turkey — Many larger flat turkey feathers form these heavier boas which might weigh 120–180 grams (4.2–6.3 oz) and reach 30 centimetres (12 in) in diameter.
Marabou — The fine down from marabou is used to form these very thin, and very fluffy boas.
Chandelle — Smaller feathers or "flats" from the turkey are used to create these lighter boas with smaller diameters.
It is important to note that ALL boa and other traditonal burlesque feather items will shed. In fact, the more they shed, the higher the quality, as this proves they are indeed made from true high quality feathers! Attend any performance where the use of Boas, Feather Fans, Corsets trimmed with Feathers and the like are employed, and after the show you will see an abundance of feathers shed all over the stage. Shedding is an expected and natural part of any quality Boa.
Hand Held Fans
In the 18th century, fans reached a high degree of artistry and were being made throughout Europe often by specialized craftsmen, either in leaves or sticks. Folded fans of silk, or parchment were decorated and painted by artists. Fans were also imported from China by the East India Companies at this time. Around the middle 18th century, inventors started designing mechanical fans. Wind-up fans (similar to wind-up clocks) were popular in the 18th century. In the 19th century in the West, European fashion caused fan decoration and size to vary.
It has been said that in the courts of England, Spain and elsewhere fans were used in a more or less secret, unspoken code of messages These fan languages were a way to cope with the restricting social etiquette. However, modern research has proved that this was a marketing ploy developed in the 18th century - one that has kept its appeal remarkably over the succeeding centuries. This is now used for marketing by fan makers like Duvelleroy in London who produced a series of advertisements in the 1960s showing "the language of the fan" with models displaying antique fans with this "language".
Fan Dance
A fan dance is a dance performed with one or more fans. This form has been adapted in various countries. The Korean fan dance, for example, evolved from Joseon Dynasty court dances and remains a popular form of traditional Korean dance. The Spanish or Portuguese flamenco makes dramatic use of fans. There also exists a form of fan dance in traditional Yu'pik culture in western Alaska; it bears little resemblance to the other forms represented herein.
In the West, a fan dance is often an erotic dance performance, traditionally by a woman. The performer, either entirely nude or apparently so, dances while moving two large fans, typically constructed from ostrich feathers. The essence of the choreography is suggestion, limiting the parts of the body exposed to the audience while focusing attention on illusions of exposure. Performers often evoke illusions of:
- having already seen what had never been exposed,
- not being able to shift one's gaze fast enough to see what seems surely to be presently exposed, or
- being aware of currently "seeing" what in fact is not exposed to be seen.
As of 2004, no fan dancer has been more famous than Sally Rand, who popularized it in the 1930s, remained the symbol of it throughout the middle of the 20th century, and continued to perform it beyond the age of 70.
In the UK, the fan dance has been used in the finals of the Miss Nude UK 2000 competition and in The Windmill in Soho where it replaced the tradition of nude tableaux
Michelle L'amour at the Miss Exotic World Pageant, 2007. Photo Michael Albov
