prom dress: a william morris fantasy

My fantasy prom dress would be fashioned of a lightweight cotton--slightly shiny, like chintz--in a pattern by the late Victorian multi-talented designer William Morris. I chose his "Pimpernel" pattern, which features leaves & blossoms swirling in a figure-of-eight pattern. The dress design itself, as pictured, is pretty simple: the neckline and dropwaist would be trimmed with bands of black velvet. (The black bars on the postcard are black velvet ribbon.)