Buying Costumes for Dancers

In the past seven years that I've been a serious strip club-goer, I've come to know a great many dancers. I do OTC with many of them. However, only a very few of them have I ever bought costumes for—just four of them. I would have done this more, but only those four did I happen to see a costume (usually in a catalog) that I thought would look good on them and that they would like. I consider the costume a success if they'll wear it at the club they work at, not just for me during our OTC. However I only have a 50% success rate in that category. (I realize that four dancers is not much of a test sample for this purpose.) Two of the girls liked the costumes well enough to wear as a regular costume, and the other two said they liked them, but they weren't comfortable wearing them at work, but just for me during OTC.

I know that dancers are very critical about the costumes they wear. At least two components usually guide them toward their costume choices: What their comfortable wearing, and what they can make money in.

What's been your experience in buying costumes for dancers? Do they like them well enough to wear them regularly? Do you take them costume shopping to pick out something themselves, or do you like to surprise them?