May 18, 2021
Details of Christine’s Elissa dress.
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Details of Christine’s Elissa dress.
Merry belated Christmas!!!
Details on the Wishing dress.
“Hanna is working on a new waterfall for the Gala skirt”
( from Ceris Donovan’s Twitter in Nov. 2022 )
CARLOTTA’S 1ST MANAGERS COSTUME: The backdrape
Joan Sobel, Las Vegas
Wendy Ferguson, RAH
Una Reynolds, Oberhausen
Louise Fribo, Copenhagen revival
Display, USA
Display, World Tour
Kimberly Blake, West End
Megan Llewellyn, West End
Aya Kawamura, Nagoya
(original design by Maria Bjørnson)
“Hanna is working on a new waterfall for the Gala skirt”
( from Ceris Donovan’s Twitter )
Wedding dress backdrapes in the UK
Rebecca Caine, West End 1987
Celinde Schoenmaker, West End 2015
Nicky Adams, UK Tour 1995
Kelly Mathieson, West End 2017
Holly-Anne Hull, West End revival 2022
Emmi Christensson, West End 2015 (Christmas special)
Lucy St Louis, West End revival 2021
Amy Manford, West End 2017
Claire Lyon, World Tour revival 2021 (US made dress)
What are your thoughts on the ugly taffeta worm on the train of the current west end wedding dresses? 🙃
This made me laught out loud. HAHAHA, but tell me what you really think of it, don't hold back... :D
But I'm with you. I like the addition in Lucy St Louis' Wishing dress, where it manage to look quite period and reflect on Victorian fashion plates with a puffed-up bustle. Here's her dress next to an 1874 day dress from La Mode Illustrée:
The wedding dress backdrape, on the other hand, looks like an afterthought. Or a way to drape the backdrape up so it won't get in the way? In my personal opinion it's not particluarly elegant, it's just massive:
I'd rather see them funk up the bow which (again in my personal opinion) is just big and limpy. A more defined bow with long decorative ends would make more of an impact and more of a bustle without drowning the waterfall backdrape. Something in the vein of the Aussie/World Tour and Canadian dresses:
Yeah, not a fan of the "worm" overall. But I do like the same idea (albeit different execution) for the Wishing dress.