purple velvet dress Plum Dress-- Magical dresses for Special moments, wedding, maternity, photos, photography, evening Hidden back zipper/clasp Lynn Velvet & Satin Strapless

If you want to dress up the look even more add a block heeled mule sandal and some oversized earrings

You can find instructions (as well as my tips) for this item in my post from last year:

The Dress Form: There are lots of types of forms, each with pros and cons

While the kindly O'Rourke demurs that women have the power of 'yea or nay', Dorothea cries out that this is all the power they have, that for the rest of their lives they are 'dependent upon the goodwill of their husbands for their very survival.' It was no more fair that Dickens consigned Ellen Ternan to a life of secrecy and lies than it was that he threw Catherine out of the house