Over Christmas we watched A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Lemony Snicket movie. We’d seen it before, but it’s a film that I’m always happy to watch over and over again, so that I can get a really good look at Violet’s costumes.
There are so many things about the dress that I love. The layers of translucent burn-out fabrics, the stripes, the lacing, the little puffy sleeves, the asymmetric hem with its slightly scruffy-looking ruffle… everything about it is just gorgeous. Pretty without being little-girly, grown-up without being sexy. Perfect.
(If nothing else, I need to make myself a Violet costume simply so that I have an excuse to buy those gorgeous boots I spotted the other week!)