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Floor length gown of purple-rose colored velvet. Probably one piece with movie ‘cheats.’ Hints of white chemise at neckline. Bishop sleeves gathered at wrist underneath full oversleeves of purple-rose velvet. Oversleeves split at sides and are attached every-so-often down the length of the sleeve with buttons. Empire waist trimmed with gold colored braid/cording. Skirt pleated evenly into waist. Trained. Sometimes worn with a white sleeveless overcoat, floor length, trained(?). Overcoat is trimmed at the edges with bluish-green lace (see pictures #3 & #6). Also worn with a gold snood (picture #7) or pearl hair decorations (pictures #8-9) and a rope chain necklace of gold and pearls.

               

           

Thanks to the cosprop.co.uk concept sketches, we know for certain that the vast majority of the costumes in Ever After were inspired by historical paintings, e.g., Danielle's Princess Gown, Danielle's Blue Library Gown, Jacqueline's Green Brocade Gown. We've been able to identify many of the paintings seen in these concept sketches, but since we don't have sketches for each costume, we have to speculate for some. Here is a historical painting with similar elements to Marguerite's Pink Velvet Gown:

Portrait of Jeanne d'Aragon by Raffaello Sanzio

Marguerite's Court Dress - she's done some research and started sourcing materials; there are also some great screencaps on her page