click my link and subscribe thank you function of beauty for sponsoring this video first let's start by studying the dress in the movie the dress is a strapless lip line bodice it clings to the body until the hips and it falls to the floor where it actually has a small train the way that it falls to the floor varies from shot to shot sometimes it's a little longer and the train seems quite long and sometimes it like piles on the feet around her and other times it's not you also have a long back drape it's in a sheer chiffon and sometimes it looks like two narrower drips and sometimes it looks like one that she kind of just uses as a scarf so for years i thought it was a black gown but i've come to realize it's actually midnight blue i think there's some suggestion in the way that the gown was drawn that it's actually velvet mostly that there's no shine or sheen or shimmer or whatsoever i don't see any obvious seams on it as if it's made from one long tube but that's pretty typical for the animated gowns so i don't think it's a problem to add seams here and there as you need to i do want to say though that however this dress is made it really hugs her curves and shows them to perfection and that adds to the drama of the dress now as all anime dresses the length of the dress does vary i find it sometimes kisses the floor and other times it just piles on so um and the train length also varies so just a heads up i think i am going to have to make decisions on based on this so for mine i really want to stick to the same color neckline and overall shape i particularly wanted a dress that would give me an hourglass shape since the sharp intake for her waist i feel is particularly important for the gown so i knew i needed a dress pattern that had a waist seam so while i looked through vintage and current patterns i found this pattern by lady marlow patterns it's a reprint of a gown from the NUMBER_TOKENs strapless mermaid form-fitting the neckline wasn't quite right but that's something i can really change very easily so i wasn't too worried about that what i particularly liked about this pattern though was the front was one long piece with some darts for shaping but the sides and the back and the waist were actually separated in the back which means that there would be a very clearly defined waist from the side and the back but you would still have that one piece look from the front one drawback was that the skirt was definitely more mermaidy in the back but i actually really like that because the way that um anesthesia walks in some shots that the train does go outwards and i thought you know what this is gonna be really pretty and you know me i always pick pretty over like exact replica so overall i thought that this pattern would work now for the fabric i know i said that i think the original gown is a velvet honestly i hate working with velvet period i'll confess it partly it's just that i hate the way that it looks on me and the fact that i can't just iron it like you can't iron velvet because then the velvet like pieces that stick up actually like flatten out but the
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