princess diana in wedding dress Diana's iconic on display London Everything to Know About Princess

Since I loved it so much, I knew Id fall in love with the sleeveless version

Lets just say that it was VERY hard and took a lot of swatch ordering (I think I spent over $30 on swatches!) Once I had all the swatches, I had to decide which replicated the color perfectly also deciding which dress color to replicate

From a series of 12 paintings from Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela' by the English painter Joseph Highmore (1692-1780), now in the Tate Collection

Just two years after the end of World War II, the fashion crowd and the moribund haute couture industry were yearning, comme tout Paris , for security and prosperity, desperate to discard the drab, sexless, utilitarian garb imposed by wartime deprivation