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I honestly thought I had already posed this! lol. I guess not. This is a pic Katie-chan took at ALA, and I love it!This is my Empress Elisabeth cosplay, from Takarazuka's rendition of the Austrian Musicla Elisabeth.This particular dress is called the Whinterhalter portrait dress and my design derivation is from the 1998 show. I'm overall very pleased with how this dress turned out, though I may fix a few things. This dress ate 60 yards of my white fabric stash! eek!
I made everything in this picture: Elliptical hoopskirt, corset, chemise, petticoat and hoopcover, over skirt, bodice, necklace, bustle pad.
Location: ALA pool deck
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Costume and model: me!
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I ADORE this!!! it is one of the best Elisabeth cosplay I have seen.. I just wish I could see it in person.
I am hoping you will not mind my asking... I am working on an Elisabeth of my own.. just the Mizu version gown ( I admit to being Mizu obsessed... even if I lack someone to dress as Der Todd) Did you draft your down pattern? Modify an existing one?
Did you use a hoop and a crinoline? or just a multi layer skirt over a hoop to hide the lines? Just crinoline would have been MASSIVELY heavy and hot.. Any advice would be soo welcome. I do have experience w/ renaissance/Elizabethan era costuming
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Thank you! This dress was so simple, but I'm still in love with the out come! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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like everyone else has said - this dress is amazing. im in need of a poofy dress for a film im doing - southern belle style, with a hoop skirt, crinolyn, petticoats, lots of layers. u think u could help me out?
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Thank you! It came together really easy and I love how ti turned out!
Well, that depends. I'm going to need a few more details I think. Where are you located? When do you need it? are you wanting a tailor made dress from scratch? are you wanting to borrow mine? and what is this film?
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i didnt know yours was available to borrow! id love to see a few more pics of it if i could.
i wouldnt need it for another month or two - its for an independent film project set in the south during the mid 1800s. im located in new england. if you had any more petticoats, would i be able to put them on with your empress dress?
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I didn't say it was borrowable! lol. I just wasn't clear what you were after.
I can guarantee that it won't fit what ever actress you want to put it on...moden figures and my corseted firgure are very different from each other.
mid 1800's. So 1850? my dress is 1865, believe me those two sillouettes are very diferent! Skirts were not as wide in the 1850's as they were in the 1860's. My empress dress had a circumrence capacity og over 300 inches. My hoopskirt and petticoat bring it out to 168. It has a train the is about five feet long. Also, I stand 5'11" and have a very long torso/legs. It will drown anyone that doesn't have my proportions.
What exactly are you looking for? If (very big if) it works out that your actress will be ok in one of my dresses, where is this are? I would have to be with the dress. First of all I have leanred from experiance that most people don't know how to put people into my dresses (to much period correctness I guess...hmm). and these are very exoensive pieces to trust to strangers.
IF you want something made that will fit the person you are dressing, then we can talk that direction. Sorry if I seem a little short, this is kind of sudden, lol.
How did you find me, if I may ask? It looks like you haaven't been a member on here for very long.
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honestly? i typed in "poofy dress" and you came up with a bunch of others lol.
im glad youre taking this so seriously...my actress stands 6'0 with heels on - so that may actually work.
you know more about this than me, so if you say 1860s skirts were wider, then i'd like to have an 1860s skirt made. id want to be with you every step of that way on that. is there any way to see more pics of the dress ure wearing?
thanks so much!
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u always look so beautiful...
lol btw i am attempting to make my first hoop skirt... ive somehow managed to bleed on it twice
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^///^ thank you so much!!
oh no! lol. Though bleeding on it is usually one of those things that is guaranteed to happen. I hope it turned out alright!
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yeah... it went into time out for a month cause i was mad at it.... then we moved and it disappeared.... >_> ... but i found a better solution so hopefully that will work...
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Simply beautiful! I love everything about this. :333 ♥
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Thank you! I'm so happy with how this dress turn out!
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i want to be able to zoom in on the details! you look stunning!
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lol, thanks! I will doing a photoshoot with this and my der tod...soonish. Expect better details then!
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Wow. That dress is so elegant, and you look so wonderful in it.
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This dress is so gorgeous!! 8D And your hair and pose are beautiful, too. ^_^
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You're welcome! ^_^ 
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I will be up at least for NDK. I may get to come visit earlier, we shall see!
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That would be so awesome! Let me know if you do. 
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I only wished I had Tenshi's camera for this shot. She and Sam spoil me when they give me high tec equipment to use. It was worth getting on the ground, near the deep end of the pool in my princess dress for this shot.
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lol, I like to think so as well. Though it would have been terrible if you had fallen in!
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Sweet begeebies!!! 
Oh and I think this one deserves a
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Lol, am I still a terrible tease?
Thank you! The over all costume came together really easy and yet, it's one of my favorites!
It's definitely fun to pose in. I feel like i'm back in my wedding dress...though my wedding dress was smaller then this...lol.
Thank you!
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Yes you are a tease but I think it was worth it. x3 You are most welcome. 
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Lol, yep. Have been for almost Four years. Reaif is my husband. you an see him cosplaying in some of my pics.
I would have made it, but I dodn't have the time (We were engaged for 2 months) and I would not have had the skills to do it. Lol. I bearly knew how to sew back then!
It so would!
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A short engagement, that's what we should have done. But it went alright despite the cake fiasco. >.O Night and I have been married just over a year (march 13 was our day). :3
And look how talented you've become!
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WEll, we dated for 3 years...so it was about time. Lol.
Cake fiasco? oh noes!
Aww, cute! Our date is July 7th.
lol, something like that. I think it's mostly a fluke!
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We ordered a nice cake from a lady my mom knows. Night before the wedding there is a message on the phone "family emergency can't do it"...insert more stress before bed. Wake up at 5:30 to get to store at 6 to order a blah sheet cake. A little later she calls again and says she can do the cake...it's a good thing I was busy getting ready otherwise there would have been words and some of which would not be good to say in a church.
Oh and we were married on Friday the 13th. :3
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*blush* Thank you so much! 
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You're welcome
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Your deviation has been featured in my journal this week. [link]
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Oh my! Thank you!! I'm so pleased that you like it so much! It has fast become one of my favorite costumes to wear.
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Welcome. I can see why.. It's so elegant. I used to dress in the antique clothing that was in my grandmother's house.. I loved the way I felt in them.
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Wow, antique clothing to play dress up in? I'm so jealous! I love historical clothing!!
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So do I. Sadly all those lovely things are gone now. Most are in a museum.
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Probably for the best, but still seriously depressing!
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I think so.. They are preserved for all time there. I have a photo of my youngest n one of the gowns. I'll have to find it and send you a link. It's lovely black lace.
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Yes, and with how many of these gowns end up destroyed, taking care of them is so important!
oh yes, please do! I would love to see!
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I'll have to dig it out. it doesn't seem to be on this computer. I'll have it up in a day or so.
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Awesome! Let me know when you find them, I would love to see!
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I will do that.. It might be a while. My mother had a stroke on the 9th of April and I don't have a lot of spare time now.
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