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Guests at the wedding could not understand why, in one photo of the dress being worn by the mother of the bride, the clearly blue and black-striped garment transformed into gold and white

A traditional wedding in Annecy

Model wears: UK 8 and runs true to size

We just put together as many costumes we could from the time Grace got home from school until we ran out of light for taking pictures

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If you preferred to wear a patriotic but historically inaccurate costume for the Bicentennial there were commercial patterns, such as this one from Simplicity , available for the home sewer