It is a long time that i have in my mind a court gown attributed to Marie Antoinette. The dress is in the Royal Ontario Museum's collection. There is also a video on you tube:
It looks amazig, it is embroidered in a spectacular way and the desing is fantastic.
I was inspired by it and I decided to create a late 18th century dress very similar to this one.
Unfortunately there aren't good quality pictures on the web, especially embroidery pictures are unavaiable.
Having a look of various websites, I had found only these low quality pictures :
I think that I will extrapolate a satisfactory embroidery pattern by copying from pictures and then I will transfer it on fabric. Dress pattern and understructure pattern(stays, panier,..) are readily available from my historical fashion patterns books.
Obviously my dress will be a little different from the original because the embroidery is a long and difficult work, instead I will improve bodice's shape because it seems so tubular (I suspect that maybe the dress would be worn with a stomacher), I have also some doubts on a so long train but...
....we will see, I will decide that later.
