Empress Sissi Star Dress: Side Story-Spite Dress

 

Empress Sissi Dress: Side Story

Diversity is what makes the world interesting. 10 people could look at the same painting and come away with 10 different interpretations of it. This was the case with the Winterhalter Sissi painting dress.

However, Otto from facebook was different. 

I posted the photos below in a sewing group on facebook, and my rendition of the dress was apparently an insult to him and an insult to his Empress. I had made the dress the wrong shape, the sleeves were too puffy, and I believe he called the tulle shawl a "fluffy abhoration." 

Which is fine, he clearly loves his Empress. Otto from facebook is entitled to his opinion. Until about two weeks later.

This man, all the way over in Italy and across the world tagged me in a facebook post. What was in this post? Otto's rendition of the Sissi dress and he had tagged me in it and expressed again how much he hated my floofy concoction and had made his own better version.  He had made a dress out of pure spite to show my poor broke self in the middle of michigan in a one room apartment, how he would make the Sissi dress in his studio in Italy. Probably paid some of his seamstresses to work on it. Just out of spite and hate of how I did my dress. 

Honestly, I was touched. This man hated my dress enough to buy fabric, spend dozens of hours sewing or paid someone to spend dozens of hours sewing, and then post it on facebook and tag me in it. It was my greatest honor. I inspired someone across the world to make a gorgeous dress. 

So long Otto my (not) friend, You gave me a good laugh and a great story,