When you are young and you want to fly but you aren’t sure your wings will hold you. When your love is sweet and breathless and you are not sure where it will take you. When you like holding hands on benches and whispering together and just want to run away from ordinariness. Shimmering sunlight captures you and takes you far away. That is when you feel most real, most free. Dancing together under the starlight feels like forever. Make it last forever. Make it go on and never stop. Recreated from a simple short brocade empire waist gown, the Creme D’or Champagne gown is melded from ecru lace, cafe au lait stretch netting and it’s draped bodice is covered with golden cream and champagne satin and deep ecru embroidered chiffon. It has an optional chiffon tie around the empire waist. Golden satin goes over one arm in a wide strap and one strap is a simple spaghetti strap. There is a long spray of ecru cotton lace. It has a long sweep of netting that puddles on one side and continues around to the back where it joins a champagne satin train. The dress has a vintage feel and has raw cut edges in the bodice and other edges where they will delicately fray. The dress is lined to the knee and zips up the back. This one of a kind gown has a fluttery skirt below the knee and a tiny satin train. My favorite part is the assymetrical bodice.
We photographed the dress on a rainy day near the beach and the weather cooperated only long enough to get a few shots. Our background is a long porch facing the sea on Sullivan’s Island near Charleston, SC. Although the model was beautiful our shots came out a bit dim. For the photo shoot I had to pin the back of the gown up near the back neckline because the straps were a bit long on her and I forgot to add the chiffon tie. Never without incident 
Thank you JuliaAnn! This may be the most romantic of the dresses I’ve made and one of my favorite colors.
