The Looking Glass Wars, Redd Heart Dress Diary

The Red Monster Dress was my big costume for Dragon Con 2011, and was updated (MORE JEWELS!) for Costume Con 30...  I saw a Guo Pei fashion show with the black cabbage rose dress, right as I happened to be reading Frank Beddor's Looking Glass Wars.  The red queen in that retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story wears a dress covered in man eating killer roses, which I thought the Guo Pei dress was exactly that!  What's not in the dress diary - I pretty much used the Simplicity Phantom of the Opera pink dress pattern and built on top of it... Under the dress I wore an Elizabethan hoop with a 50's crinoline on top.