Arwen's Mourning dress: 75% complete

The inspiration:

 Arwen's Mourning dress from LotR

in the scene where her (Elven) father shows her what her future is with mortal Aragorn. It's only on the screen for less than five seconds! Fortunately, the movies were so popular that the costumes were (and are) on display quite often....


My original sketch:

 Ignore the Hawaiian flowers, lines, and "January".... I have a bad habit of grabbing the first available paper *grin*

The 75% completed project:

All that's left is hemming, which I strongly dislike, and besides that, there's a lot to hem... :^l

After I find the proper head scarf + crown I'm planning on having a photo shoot.... but who knows? Can't say for sure...

Thank you for reading :)

Celine

Planning...

Mom bought me six yards of this silver taffeta last night! It's absolutely gorgeous. It'll be a 18th c. inspired ball gown, with pewter and white/silvery beads on the stomacher and sleeves. I'll have a black tulle mask and also have tulle and a black rose is my hair.
Thank you, Mum!!!! :)

This is some olive green cotton broadcloth-type fabric. I'm making a medieval gown (that I've dubbed the "Autumn" dress), and embroidering the sleeves, neckline and possibly the hem with the thread colors shown.

These are the materials for Arwens Mourning dress (check out my previous post).

A close up on the buttons. I took these pics myself.... I didn't want to bother Amelia..... however, my close ups are really bad! She's so much better at this than I am!

The Marian costume; cloak; mourning dress

I named it the Marian dress... but for a time I was tossing around ideas of adding some Narnian features.... well, I think I'll stick with the original plans....

Construction is going well. Expect in a week or two.

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Our Joann Fabrics is having a pattern sale, and a sale on cotton broadcloth.

I'm sort of thinking of making a cheaper version of this dress in cotton broadcloth from LotR.... for plays and such it's very helpful to have a black mourning dress on hand, no?

I'm also sort of thinking of a cloak. Who knows. Like one of these, maybe?