What colooouur/s?

Hello!

I've just ordered this pattern
http://www.butterick.com/item/B4485.htm?search=trenchcoat%20with%20epiletes&page=2

for my formal dress next year!

The only problem is, I have no idea what colour/s to make it in.
Please don't suggest green >.<

ummm if you wana photo of me I'm sure i could find for you!

EDIIIIT:

I was thinking perhaps a combination of these colours?
http://www.cinemacomrapadura.com.br/filmes/imgs/marie_antoinette_2006_img_2.jpg (lady on the left, main fabric of her dress)

http://www.abcgallery.com/V/vigeelebrun/vigeelebrun4.JPG

PURPLE OF COURSE!!!

Hahaha that is the coolest dress in the world!

it is indeed

im not so sure... wouldn't purple make my skin look funny >.<

I am determined to look completely and totally mindblowingly stunning.

yeah I'm a bitch like that

Hahaha.

Well a dark sorta shimmery red could would look nice I reckon.

wow..thats gonna take a hell of alot of material and time..

what time of year is it?

cause i normally always wear dark colours, but my prom was in the summer so i decided light would be nicer, so i looked all summery (as it happened it poured with rain that day..) which is why i chose mint green and cream..also, few people wore green and i wanted to be different.

if you want to stay traditional with it...stick with pale colors

personaly i like the pink on the chick in the middle hahaha

it also depends on the time of year i'd say

You could go with blue...

A pale pastely blue or a dark rich one.

i dont think you'd suit pale colours lil...i just think it'd look a wee bit wierd on you.

id say maybe a red colour...or a blue...not too dark but not too pale either.

cream and black would look nice.

Also, stripes can be really striking on a dress like that.

Like the dress Christina Ricci wore in Sleepy Hollow

i think a dark dark red would be really hot.

I reckon something like this colour... maybe even a little darker? Like, a little shimmery but with sorta black undertones? I reckon that would look so good.


And this one is a purty colour too:

In fact I like that whole dress. Ooooh. I love that!

I really like that fabric in the Marie Antoinette pic you posted, but I really think a darker fabric would be better. Especially seeing as you're so pale.

Maroon and cream is purty =D

Yeah...Im thinking that darker colors will work better. Thats such an amazing dress.

Black and Silver brocade would look killer. That's what I would suggest.

... what's brocade?

Brocade is asian type fabric. Kimonos are made of it and what not.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I get.

in short- it is beautiful & my favorite thing ever

OMG that's a great suggestion! Brocade would look stunning.

what about dark blue brocade with the ridge thing down the bottom in silver or a bluish cream?

I think that would look rather amazing.

I'm making a practice one out of muslin first though. or something

just so i don't screw up the good fabric

play with colours in photoshop.

but i like the sound of what you said