The dress itself is blue taffeta. It was a bit of luck that I already had it in my fabric stash and it matched the colour of Asta's dress perfectly! :D All the white designs are silk essence which is an inexpensive faux silk they carry at Joann's. All the trim is stitched on by hand because I didn't want machine stitching to destroy the braid.
I made all the armour out of fun foam. It was my first time tackling a really big armour project, but I'm really pleased with how it all turned out. There's a base layer of 3mm foam, and all the scrollwork was 2mm foam. I cut out the base piece first, then traced the piece onto the 2mm foam and from there I could just draw the designs straight onto the foam. Once the scrollwork was cut out and glued onto the base foam, I sealed it with a school glue/water mixture and spray painted it all with metallic silver spray paint. The recessed bits were darkened with black acrylic paint that I brushed on and immediately wiped off with a paper towel. I gave some pieces a really light spray of the metallic silver paint again afterward if I felt they were too dark. Then I just added the jewels and it was done! The largest piece only took about two days, so it's a really quick way to make armour.
And now, pictures!

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