The first costume gown

Okay. Fine. This is my first costume. Completely unhistoric (has a zipper down the back and the stomacher is attached). Laugh all you want.

The panniers were made out of old coathangers... (note brother's jeans, as I took this pic at his desk... he helped bend them metal)

Horrid, aren't they?!?! As unhistoric as you get. I had to keep bending them over the course of the one night I wore this dress.

A sleeve..... (note our fairly tacky fall tablecloth)

The bodie, or at least some of it! Note fabulous lace that my aunt got for me. It was probably the best part of the francaise, in my opinion!




Side view... the pleats aren't attached in the back, but I've seen one extant francaise with unattached pleats, so it's OKAY. (though I highly doubt that francaise's pleats were attached with velcro.)

The back, from which it looks the most like a TRUE francaise!

I do love this shot, though... note my 18th century chair thingies and also my fabulous candy-handing-out dish...

My hair turned out FABULOUS, I think. My mom did it off a video we found on youtube!! Note lovely little choker, attached by velcro, and un-historical makeup. I didn't look up 18th century makeup until the day of, so thus I was like "WHAT?!?! They didn't wear mascara at ALL in the 18th century?!?!" so I put it on anyway, concluding that the site I got my info from must have made a mistake. Of course later I found out that the site was right...

Nobody who came to the door seemed to know who I was. I got "Belle" from a cute little girl (wearing a Jasmine costume!) and "Are you Cleopatra?" from some junior high kid. Which was halarious.

ta-ta