No,it's not a wedding dress--it's a nightgown! The most common reaction of people seeing me wearing this has been laughter...very funny indeed.
Anyway I've always wanted a big fancy nightgown so there you have it. Considering the fact that it can get quite cold up here in the winter and I can't abide sleeping with my window closed, I need pretty warm stuff to sleep in. It may not look it, but this nightgown is veeery warm-it has an outer layer of sort of crinkly rayon and is lined in a very thin silk--sooo comfy The neckline and sleeves have elastic bands and it's smocked (?) in the back for extra stretchy comfort without the feeling of sleeping in a big potato sack.
The hemline is huge and it even has a little train so I wouldn't recommend this type of nightgown to anyone who rolls around a lot at night-you might strangle yerself with it : ) You can't really see it in the picture but I actually dyed it sort of off-white though I'm not completely happy with the colour...if it weren't so huge I would've tea-dyed it because that would have given more the tone I wanted than regular fabric dye...the pattern is, as always, drafted by me.