So as I bimble along on this
LACMA-Sacque-ma, diligently cutting out all the many pieces, and saving every little scrap, I'm getting the feeling that I'm not going to have enough fabric left to recreate the trims on the original dress.
Oh, I fully intend to stitch together every minuscule piece of cabbage in a last ditch effort to get those hundreds of inches needed to do the pleats, but it's not looking good. So, just to be prepared for epic failure, here are some trim options that are *not* made with matching fabric. This wasn't very common, it seems, but at least I won't have a naked sacque, if it comes to that...
Most of the gowns showing non-matching trims appear to be a little later than my inspiration dress. Of course, what I really want is to somehow schnarg out enough yardage to make all the trims, but I might be gettin' jiggy with the silver spray paint on some lace instead, which I could live with. It wouldn't be a re-creation at that point, but at least it would still look pretty cool. :-)