Well it's been ages since I shared any progress, and as the event has been and gone I thought I ought to give you all some closure!
I decided to criss-cross chain all over the bodice. Well I think I used about 15 metres of the stuff and regretted it about halfway through! I used a beading needle and hand stitched the chain down at each crossing.
No photos of this, but I made a 3/4 circle skirt in organza as an under skirt to give the skirt a bit more fullness. For this I stitched horsehair braid in 3 rows to give it some nice fullness.
The stencilled feathers looked a little dull once I had the chain on so I decided to glue gold foil on a random selection of feathers. This was a super messy job, I literally got gold foil all over the house (and the taxi and the hotel room on the night of our event!!)
At the last minute I decided to add another row of feathers at the top of my collar.
Unfortunately it turned out a tad assymetrical which I didn't really realise till I saw the photos!
Here's the finished project.
And finally a shot of my makeup and my crown!
The crown I bought was silver so I had to paint it over gold, I did about 3 coats of paint and it still didn't look right, so I crushed up some eyeliner pencil and rubbed it on the crown to make it look a bit older and grimier!
So there you go. A lot of work for a single night's event, but I got a lot of comments on it and I felt like a million bucks!
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