Enchantress

She weaves a subtle spell - is it magic or her heady charms that have you bound and helpless? You want to draw back but her eyes have captured you in their dark web and draw you inexorably in...

 

Agnes Devotion is a very exotic beauty and in my world she has vibes of Morgana, Morgan le Fay, Melisandre... definitely an enchantress of legend and fairy tale.

 

I made Agnes's dress and top from an embellished camisole, pulling the original spaghetti straps up to form the cap sleeves. I like how organic and flowing it looks with the front drape and the fish tail train which I slightly gathered in the back. It has cross-over straps at the back and it can be worn open at the front or buttoned up with or without a belt. I was aiming for a dress that recalls the muses of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who often portrayed images from myth and legend full of nymphs and enchantresses.

 

My thanks to davidd for this association:

 

Oh, sweet Dardanella,

I love your harem eyes,

I'm a lucky fellow to capture such a prize,

Oh, Allah knows my love for you

And he tells you to be true, Dardanella,

Oh, hear my sigh, my Oriental,

Oh, sweet Dardanella, prepare the wedding wine,

There'll be one girl in my harem, when you're mine.

We'll build a tent

Just like the children of the Orient.

 

Oh, sweet Dardanella

My star of love divine.

Down beside the Dardanella Bay,

Where Oriental breezes play,

There lives a lonesome maid Armenian.

By the Dardanelles with glowing eyes

She looks across the seas and sighs

And weaves her love spell so sirenian.

Soon I shall return to Turkestan

I will ask for her heart and hand.

Done