anthro maxi dress The Edit No.1 / Floral Dresses A draped front panel adds movement Plunge Maxi Dress by Siempre

The full voluminous skirt made of layers of tulle in different finishes creates depth and variation of transparencies

Elastane is a synthetic material that gives your clothes flexibility and elasticity

With regard to colours, deep jewel tones - emerald green and ruby, sparling midnight blue and charcoal grey will look good against winter backdrops but so also will soft colours tinged with frost such as ice blue and pink with just a hint of silver

The pattern I ended up using was Gerties Patio Dress pattern, from her Gertie Sews Jiffy Dresses book

The dress featured a fluid, gathered fabric that was pinched at the waist and woven through a crystal chain belt to create hip cutouts before forming a plunging halter top with matching crystal links along the neck