My dress is very much like Danielle’s dresses in EverAfter. I guess they had also liked the movie, so they wanted that kind of Cinderella for the play. To make the dress looked ragged on stage, I added a few square patches of fabric, as if there where wholes in my dress, and I wore a burlap apron that wat so cut up, it was more like wearing strips of burlap around my waist. The costume department loved the effect because the dress looked like it had once been regal and was now very worn and dirty. During the whole play, I carried my witch’s broom, made of a thick wooden rod (a small tree that had been cut up and stripped of its bark by my brother) and some straw. The costume and make-up department used soot and black make-up to dirty up my white sleeves and face (in the mirror, I though I looked like a dalmatian, but apparently, from the audience’s point of view, I just looked dirty). I’ve never been able to make the sleeves perfectly white again.
Fabric
The bodice and skirt is made of royal blue cotton.
The bodice is lined in blue polyester lining.
The sleeves are made from white shirting fabric.
There is white english lace around the neckline and small gold lace around the neckline and bottom of skirt (a few inches away from the hem).
Pattern
I was provided with McCall’s 2806 and was asked to do view B. I did not modify the pattern in anyway, which is rare for me, but it was the first time I made such a complicated costume. Before that, I had only made a couple of simple robes.
Advice
When you need to gather quite alot of fabric, like I needed to do for the skirt, its best to hand tack the fabric. Machine tacking is often too tight and you have to work alot harder to get all the pleats.
