Miss Havisham / Cobwebbed Costuming - Bevel Jewellery 2011 Collection

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Miss Havisham is renowned throughout literature as an eternal bride due to being jilted at the alter and then living out the rest of her days in bridal attire. Within my interpretation for a TV adaptation of a younger Miss Havisham I wanted to recreate the bridal attire while combining elements of the "nun of the sex hostile realm" with the reoccurring theme of decayed trapping as the whole ideology behind her is this idea of living out her life at 8:40 on the day of her jilting. While searching for a way to embody this element of becoming cocooned in your own misery I came across these images by the Bevel Jewellery Collection of 2011 whereby tights were used to create a tight, almost cobwebbed costuming. This I felt was a highly interesting idea for Miss Havisham's costuming for the continuity assessment as it has that bridal element to it in the form of lace sleeves etc but retains a cobwebbed and somewhat constricting element that reflects the mental state of Miss Havisham.
Obviously I do not want to simply copy that style of costuming within these selection of images as that would not hold credit to the original creator (who unfortunately is unknown) however I have been heavily inspired by this concept and would like to use tights in a similar way to mimic the bridal sleeves while combining them with a subtle hint to the nuns habit. As I am creating my Miss Havisham for TV as opposed to theatre it allows me to have the makeup and styling slightly more simplistic in comparison to that of the dramatic textures needed to be seen from far away by audience. For this reason I feel that using tights to recreate the dirtied lace brides sleeves will be most effective, in addition to this by using tights I would be able to ladder the fabric to emphasis the concept of the delicate fabric being worn consistently and therefore damaged. Although my Miss Havisham is young as I am focusing her between the time of jilting and meeting Pip (roughly between the age of 21-31) I wanted to retain the youthfulness of the face but hint at the gradual self wrapping as she slips from bride to bridal phantom of her former self.