The wonderful photos from Costume Costume College are ready. Here is my take on a famous Worth gown. I digitized and machine-embroidered all of the roses, then made the gown.

The tricky parts:

The rose panels were 40-50″, which is a lot of individual panels to digitize, split and embroider. I now need to have my machine serviced as it barely was able to finish.

The bottom of the gown fades into lace from the satin, which meant edging the bottom in embroidery then adding so very, very many rose leaves embroidered onto lace.

Solid sections of embroidery onto satin tends to pucker, no matter what fancy combos of backing I tried. This is actually version three of the gown, with the tests and previous versions turning into hemline pieces.

The bodice on the original is draped and not fitted. Draped I understand, but the lack of fitting at the top is just weird. I am 100% convinced this is a rework of an original gown. In order to create the gown, I first made an ivory lace and light blue ribbon gown, then added the satin parts on top.

There are Zero photos of this gown from the left. My theory is that someone spilled coffee on it.