Dress featured at New York City University’s Integrated Digital Media Showcase, right after the amurai Armor Minika went on to design a wearable technology garment known as the ‘CloudDress’ and with other cutting edge designers. I actually could be wrong, here you can see the upper layer of sheer mousseline. I’m guessing that the opaque supporting underskirt is white silk taffeta. On the photo of the back you can see how that kicky frill on both the outer layer and the outside of the underskirt, visible in the photo above, gives it just a little movement and interest at the hem. Choosing the dress is only part of the fun finish your look with accessories and jewelry as well. Consequently, while bangles and bracelets can accentuate most any evening dress, a low neckline will be ‘well served’ by some glittering necklaces.
Mix and match to figure out what makes you feel as good as you look! Let your formal dresses really stand out by choosing the right fine jewelry to go with it. Charles Frederick and, by this time, his son ‘JeanPhilippe’, had to find ways of meeting enormous demand without customers noticing any compromise in quality. Book I drew from above really brings home the enormous energy that the House of Worth had to find. I’m sure you heard about this. High society balls could attract thousands of guests, and guess who was charged with much of the dressmaking! Not only that. This is where it starts getting really serious, right? The wealthiest society women could not be seen twice in identical dress, none might be seen in a dress that anyone else had worn, and with lives that were a continual social whirl of visits, dinners, balls, masquerades, theatre and opera on a scale inconceivable to us today, father and son were both operating at the absolute limit of their creativity. Essentially, I can only tip my hat and admire the House all the more.
Successive layers of the sheer, plain blackish mousseline was appliqued onto the whitish gown, and after all the edges of any layer was outlined in sequins.
While in line with the notes beneath the photo, the gown is made of blackish and whitish silk mousseline. Since the pattern is constant and regular across the gown, it looks as though the main white mousseline fabric is already spangled in some way when it comes off the roll. More stars adorn the lower corners. Basically the sleeve edges are outlined in sequins, and at the shoulder another star and three sequins rows go over the shoulder. Eventually, two spangled pieces whitish mousseline are sewn into the armhole and held gether with an applied star near the shoulder, forming a floaty sleeve. That is interesting right? Add even more shimmer with jewel ne jewelery and a sexy pair of shoes you’ll be the belle of the ball!