Karolina, Sweden
Arwen Undómiel's Ceremonial Gown
My sister is the model as she is the real Arwen.
I fell in love with this gown as soon as I first saw it. It is really
beautiful! Actually I made this dress pretty fast, just in a few days, and
it did not cost me a lot of money at all! At home I had this old, thin,
light-green fabric which was perfect for this dress! All I had to buy was a
few different kinds of lace and a different green fabric for the underdress.
I got it all very cheap from a second-hand shop.
The pattern I used was a "burda EASY" No. 2943, and of course I made a
few modifications on it as I made it longer and modified the neck- lining.
The underdress is actually no more than a shirt that I made of the little
bit thicker, darker green fabric. I put different kinds of laces on the
neck-line and around the upper arms. Then I put on the long sleeves from the
thin, light-green fabric which each has the form of half an half-circle.
Over this comes the overdress made of the same fabric as the long sleeves.
The neckline on this overdress is lace.
The crown on the pictures is actually a very old thing from the 1920's,
which my mother bought long ago in a second hand store in Paris! It turned
out to be almost identical with the crown Arwen wear in the movie!
