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Late as always, and sadly my life shows no sign of letting up...

So, this week's brief was:
For this week, we're asking you to design an outfit for an extremely fashionable lady. Basically, she's been invited to a costume party, but this woman is NOT the kind to go out of her way to look stupid in a costume. So your brief is to design something that could pass as a costume, but still looks stylish. We're looking for costuminess just as much as fashionability, so make sure the character she's dressed as is pretty obvious, but chic.

My inspiration for this challenge was robin (the bird, not the sidekick). The idea started from thinking about Batman and the first challenge and in the end it had evolved into the actual bird robin.
I love birds of all kinds, and have based costumes on them before , so this seemed like a natural choice.

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The outfit consists of a tan/nude coloured silk chiffon & taffeta dress. The dress has a layer of delicate beaded & sequined chiffon on the top and a basic tulip hemmed taffeta dress underneath. The skirt of the dress wraps around on the back (not sure how to describe that in english). There's a silk chiffon beaded & sequinned bustle and a long train on the back to represent the robin's tail. The dress would close on the side with a zip.
Over the dress there is a robin-red corset, that'd have hook&eye closure on the back.
The outfit also includes copper bracelets and copper coloured taffeta kitten heeled d'Orsay shoes. The mask-on-a-stick would be of robin's beak brown leather.

(Critique, please.)

Description
Late as always, and sadly my life shows no sign of letting up...

So, this week's brief was:
For this week, we're asking you to design an outfit for an extremely fashionable lady. Basically, she's been invited to a costume party, but this woman is NOT the kind to go out of her way to look stupid in a costume. So your brief is to design something that could pass as a costume, but still looks stylish. We're looking for costuminess just as much as fashionability, so make sure the character she's dressed as is pretty obvious, but chic.

My inspiration for this challenge was robin (the bird, not the sidekick). The idea started from thinking about Batman and the first challenge and in the end it had evolved into the actual bird robin.
I love birds of all kinds, and have based costumes on them before , so this seemed like a natural choice.

***

The outfit consists of a tan/nude coloured silk chiffon & taffeta dress. The dress has a layer of delicate beaded & sequined chiffon on the top and a basic tulip hemmed taffeta dress underneath. The skirt of the dress wraps around on the back (not sure how to describe that in english). There's a silk chiffon beaded & sequinned bustle and a long train on the back to represent the robin's tail. The dress would close on the side with a zip.
Over the dress there is a robin-red corset, that'd have hook&eye closure on the back.
The outfit also includes copper bracelets and copper coloured taffeta kitten heeled d'Orsay shoes. The mask-on-a-stick would be of robin's beak brown leather.

(Critique, please.)