Another Gown Comes to Life

 Take this purple gown, to the left.  It's pretty boring, but it's got good bones...get it?  Another period joke!?  Good bones...boning?  No?  Anyway...

The color was great and the beading across the top was perfect.  It matched, quite well, with another lavender dress that was dripping in lace, that was donated by the director of the opera's mother.  Unfortunately, we don't have a picture of it, before it got deconstructed.




















Below, Ellie hand stitches lace onto the bodice, so that it matches its new skirt.


Now, the gown below, was beautiful, until someone hacked off the front and replaced it with some metallic silver fabric.  Not sure for what, but it didn't work.  Fortunately, it had a detailed train, that we could use!!

 You can see, in these 2 pictures, the gown starting to take shape!