Rate the Dress: Fancy dress for 1830 - The Dreamstress

By A Mystery Man Writer

The Halloween run-up purple and black dress from last week was very divisive. You either loved the dress, or hated it. One thing you did agree on though: the fringe was not good. Perhaps my anti-fringe stance has influenced all of you after all! The pro-black and purple-ites won a slight victory, bringing the rating in at 6.7 out of 10 Last week I gave a taste of the season, and I promised a proper Halloween Rate the Dress for this week, but when I came to pick something, I realised what a mistake my promise was! How was I ever to live up to last year’s Victorian Batgirl? How was I ever to find something else that was said ‘Halloween’ so clearly, that was from a different period (because the whole point is variety), and that wasn’t so historical that the costume would make no sense from a modern perspective. So I thought about the timeless trends in costuming: things that make Halloween costumes Halloween costumes, and it boiled down to three things: scary, …