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Padmés Dinner dress (aka Fireside dress)

Pictures of the original costume – the last picture also shows the feather cape.

I have made this one before, when I still made costumes for many others.
Now someone else – Mohmoh, who by now has it on her Cosplay profile right here – wanted it, too – but partially made with her materials; apparently she didn’t feel confident in making it herself; even if she had those materials at hand. It’s also a complete mystery to me why she doesn’t indicate that she hasn’t made the costume herself; but instead describes it on ther Cosplay page as ‘being made’ in third person. Oh well. Then again, MOST of her costumes are described that way, and only few of them have a ‘this costume was made by this or that friend of mine’ disclaimer in the description.
Anyway, creating this dress wasn’t a problem for me… after all, I made it before (and even completely, with the corset!), so here’s what I created after Mohmoh ordered it from me…

The corset wasn’t made by me, Mohmoh bought it – that in advance.
The skirt was made with the burnout silk velvet that was originally used on the Star Wars ‘Senate’ gown; I have also used this fabric on my “Water” gown – for this skirt, it was used in black color, and it is made from Polyester instead of the ‘real deal’ of burned-out silk / rayon velvet (and that is the fabric which Mohmoh provided, by the way – she bought it on Ebay). The skirt is completely lined with silver grey Dupioni silk from my collection.
The necklace was made by me using black velvet and combined with no less than *three* complete pre-made pearl belts, which Mohmoh also provided. I’ve also used a real vintage Victorian / Edwardian jet pearl ornament on the front middle of the neck from my own collection.
The fingerless gloves were made by me from pleather.
And the most amazing thing I’ve created is probably the handbag, which I have made with the remnants of anything else (meaning burnout velvet, Dupioni silk, strands of the pearl belts and a pearl flower that was on one of the belts) plus some greenish shimmering feathers.
Such feathers were also used on the original cape that went with the original costume (and which I have partially created for this costume as well – but I didn’t sew all the feathers on, my customer Mohmoh felt confident that if I made the base of the cape and add the first row of feathers, she could add all the others herself) wanted to add some herself – so – no pictures of that *yet*, but maybe Michaela will send me some when she has finished the cape and wore the complete costume for some pictures? )