Midsummer Night's Dream

A recent Courts of Faerie May-Day ball was the occasion for this gown of featherweight iridescent green silk, worn over a crinoline and a Victorian corset.  The back-laced bodice is strapless, with sheer green leaf-shaped dags sewn into the bottom, and is ornamented with metallic lace and antique gold trim.   The five-yard skirt is simply gathered into a waistband.  All the other features of the gown are optional: the wing-shaped translucent sleeves in layers are worn as a "shrug" that ties on behind the shoulders, and the overskirt is composed of layers of three different iridescent sheers on a thin waistband that fastens in the front, under the bodice.  The matching wire-frame wings tie on over and under the shoulders from a small rigid frame in the center back.  The cost of the basic gown is about $2400 plus materials.  The sleeves and 7-petal overskirt are an additional $500.  The wings are individually negotiated based on size, shape, number of "veins", and materials:  the pair shown is about $400.

To see just the basic gown, click here.

To see another variation of the gown, click on the image below:

The cost of the variation shown above is $3300 without wings and $3600 with wings.