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What to Wear for a Valentines Day Dinner

The silk pattern before slashing: Ive spent lots of time discecting the 1 photo and flat sketches of the V&A dress in Nineteenth Century Fashion in Detail

The cape is the real showpiece, though, and I thought maybe it would be an interesting veil substitute: There's a shorter capelet at the top, which is gathered in back for extra volume: The accessories for this outfit were still stored in their original box: The elaborate headpiece is missing, but there's some other jewelry, a pair of underpants, a belt, and blue gloves with blue replacement hands: The pale blue belt is a strip of ribbon with a neat bow in the middle: It closes in back with a loop and button: Unfortunately, this belt won't fit Lena