Dancing-girl costume

Dancing-girl costumes were a style of performance costume for female dancers that were also worn by some beings who had been enslaved. They consisted of an ornamented bronzium chest harness on top with varying garments on bottom, such as a lashaa silk skirt with jerba leather boots, and they revealed much of the wearer's skin. During the Clone Wars, the costumes were worn by many Twi'lek women in locations where they were enslaved or performed for other beings, including Nal Hutta and Zygerria.

When the Hutt Jabba Desilijic Tiure captured Princess Leia Organa of the Rebel Alliance at his palace, he forced her to wear a dancing-girl costume and a chain. She strangled him to death with that chain and then destroyed his sail barge as she escaped. A holocube recording of Organa killing the Hutt won her the respect of many Niktos, who dubbed her "the Huttslayer." Later in Senator Organa's life, Rinnrivin Di offered her the footage when she investigated his cartel. Di failed to learn from Jabba's fate and he, too, was killed by Organa.

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