This gown was adapted from a Butterick ren gown pattern. It laces up the back, instead of velcroing up the front (ick!). I was silly and cut it with curved seams so it can't be worn (won't look nice) over my corset, and I actually believed them on the amount of skirt needed (D'oh!)

Next time I make this style gown, I'm not bothering with the pattern. I can do most of this one freehand.

It's made of this atocious robe velour, which is really too thin for anything, but from 10 feet away, it looks like velvet. I only paid $3/yard, so I don't mind all that much. It's lined with some variation of laundered challis, in the perfect shade of red.

The matching French hood isn't in this picture, but it's covered in the same material, with black and gold beads, on a manilla folder base with a double chiffon veil. (Yes, manilla folder. The stores in Buffalo don't stock buckram that I know of. Besides, it was an experimental pattern.)

The underskirt is crepe-backed satin in front, and some cheesy navy blue acetate in back, where it can't be seen.

The partlet shown is described with the white Elizabethan gown, since that's the piece it was made to go with.

This is a very comfy gown (mostly because of the corset issue), but I look completely dumpy in it.

This gown is also getting re-worked as a Queen of Hearts gown.