Eva Margaret [Wexler] Fallon

[Background] [Perosnality] [Description] [Outfits] [Family]

• Name Meaning
  • Eva: to live, breathe
  • Margaret: pearl
• Birthdate: June 28, 1901
• Role: Cordial Confections Owner
• Former House: Ravenclaw
• Wand: Firm Apple wood, short, with an opal powder core

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Background

The class of 1889 at Hogwarts was not close-knit. In fact, many members of said class openly despised one another. Among them, though, several strong relationships were able to form, despite the animosity that was rampant in their peers. Jonathan Herbert Wexler and Elizabeth Lucille Rush became acquainted when they were paired in charms class during the study of Unhappiness Hexes. The two spent the remainder of that day in their third year relating stories of all the terrible memories they had. Though neither had any truly bad life experiences, the time spent was enough to create a connection that grew and blossomed into a strong friendship. ‘Lizzie and Jonny’ were an entity thereafter, about which the rumours flew. Gossips said they were snogging in the hall one week, fighting tragically the next. Both were painfully aware of the rumours, but each took a very different method of dealing with them. Jonathan would stoutly ignore any person who dared to insinuate anything which he did not represent as fact. Elizabeth took a more proactive way of quelling them. Most of the the people who she learned were spreading such ‘foul’ rumours ended up with the nurse, tending to bloodied noses and quickly forming bruises. For this, Lizzie lost Gryffindor more points than her housemates would have liked, but they could do nothing about this, of course, so the rumours persisted, perhaps in retaliation. It was a viscious, never-ending cycle.

There were many ‘I told you so’s in their seventh year when the two, while up ‘studying’ late one evening, fell asleep, cuddling together on a couch in the commonroom. Shrieks of laughter were heard when they were discovered the next morning and the gossiping tongues seemed to have become unhinged. It was helpless, now, for the two to deny the strong companionship. Empowered as such, Jonathan managed to procure a small, dainty-looking ring, and asked Elizabeth to marry him. She agreed to do so, and a late September wedding date was set. Jonathan was hired on at the Ministry of Magic as a file clerk in the Department for International Cooperation, and that fall, on September 18, they were married.

For a while, married life was bliss. Elizabeth stayed home, keeping the house and a small garden (her favorite hobby), and making the obligatory visits to parents and siblings. Life was pleasant during this time, as the couple had ample time to spend at their leisure (though Jonathan often was called upon to work extra evenings on the menial tasks that his superiors deigned to do). Jonathan worked very hard, doing everything he was told, and finally, after three years of toil, he was promoted. He was so thrilled with the new title and the bonus he received that he whisked Elizabeth away to Madrid for two weeks, reveling in the majesty and beauty of Spain. Not long after their return from this excursion, Lizzie found that she was pregnant with their first child. Jonathan was over the moon with this news, and while Elizabeth was thrilled to become a mother, she hadn’t time to revel in it. Aside from hearing her mother and mother-in-law talk at length about their pregnancies and child rearing, she also had to cope with her own already difficult pregnancy.

Despite the difficulties, Basil Marvin made his way into the world, big and healthy. Jonathan was thrilled to have a son and heir to his ‘line’, as he so frequently boasted. Though Elizabeth thought these ideas archaic, she found it mostly endearing in her husband. Little Basil was finally toddling about and chattering to Elizabeth when she realized that she was once again pregnant. Logan Alexander joined the family just a month after Basil’s second birthday. He was smaller than his brother had been, but remained healthy, nevertheless. Home life for the children was pleasant. They had mummy’s attention at all times and often had one or both of their grandmothers around to dote on them. Basil was five years old and Logan three when Jared Aldarius and Gilbert Alan made their way into the world and the family, Gilbert being just a few minutes older than his brother. After their birth, Elizabeth was well run off her feet, trying to care for four rather energetic boys. Despite this, just under a year later, Frederick Herbert joined the family, to his father’s joy, as well as the welcome of four older brothers. Though she loved all of her boys, Elizabeth was at her wit’s end. Five boys? Though her mother had given birth to a boy, Lizzie never was to know him, as he died just before her birth. For a young woman who had no experience with boys and the way they grew up, Elizabeth managed as well as she could.

Elizabeth was filled with dread, as she fell pregnant for the fifth time. She was almost certain that it would be another boy, to add to her already large flock. Her joy was immense, though, as was Jonathan’s, when Eva Margaret became the first — and only — girl in the Wexler family.

With six children to care for now, Lizzie and Jonathan found that it was more difficult to make ends meet than they were used to. When Little Eva was five years old, and Basil had begun school, Lizzie decided that she would take in some sewing to help out with their ever-increasing expenses. Though this appalled her mother, Elizabeth was fiercely proud and would not hear of her children lacking in any way.

Though she was still a small child, Eva looked on her mother’s new distraction as an opportunity. With the aid of her older brothers, she would send ‘gifts’ to Basil at school. These gifts usually were things like bottles of perfume filled with toad slime, or a box of candies, shoddily charmed to make the candies fly out of the box and stick to the opener. Several angry letters home resulted from her harassed oldest brother, and though Jonathan and Elizabeth knew it was not a good behavior to encourage, little Eva received no more than a stern warning on any of the occasions.

Eva’s first year at Hogwarts was relatively uneventful. She was sorted into Ravenclaw, and she lost more points than she earned, but not such a significant number as to hurt the house much. The same trend has continued through her years. Despite everything, she earned excellent grades, though not burying herself in studies. She enjoyed going to Quidditch matches, and the banquets that were held. She also enjoyed the holidays around the school. She stayed on for Christmas every year, just to take part in the festivities.  Summer vacation was enough to spend with her brothers, and her parents were always so busy that she rarely saw them, she reasoned every year.

Eva went through school, usually coming out about even with points earned and points lost, though there were times when people could argue that she lost more than she gained. Most people didn’t hold it against her, though, as her point losses were in small increments, taken for light-hearted mischief. During school, she prided herself on always being on top of her grades. Though not brilliant by any means, her homework was always finished, and she got respectable marks. She enjoyed History of Magic and Potions, but couldn’t car a whit about courses like Herbology or Muggle Studies. The easy, “fluff” courses, as she dubbed them, were more a waste of time than anything else. Their easiness didn’t prevent her from doing well in them, and they were, indeed, the best scores she earned on her OWLS, if for no other reason than that she did find them very easy and trivial. Nothing in Eva’s school days could stand out as unique from any other Ravenclaw student. She was not spectacular at much of anything, though she did earn fantastic marks in History of Magic and potions, she couldn’t imagine doing anything with them as a career.

As the end of her Hogwarts years approached, Eva began to fret about her future. She’d tossed around dozens of ideas, but still had no idea what she wanted to do. She only knew that she wasn’t ready to settle down just yet. She wanted to do something, and make something of herself. As she scouted things out, going from this book to that, asking questions of people, she found that, though she wasn’t getting closer to a decision regarding a career, she was enjoying herself. It dawned on her then, what she might do for a career: she could be a reporter! She began during the middle of her seventh year to contact the Daily Prophet and make plans to become a cub reporter after her term at Hogwarts. Though plans weren’t final, or even definite as graduation loomed, she felt confident that she had some idea where she could go.

Betwixt bickering and convincing, Eva finally convinced her mother to let her move into a small house in Hogsmeade with her friend and former schoolmate, Sinead O’Brien. She kept in contact with the Daily Prophet, and kept her eyes open for any notice of an opening for a reporter, and, in the meantime, took a part-time job, cleaning house for an elderly woman three houses down. Her ambitions and dreams kept her sane as she worked diligently under the patient old lady’s watchful eyes.

Her hopes of becoming a reporter became dulled and soon disappeared entirely, as no spots opened up to her liking. Perhaps she was being too picky (her mother was quick to tell her so), or perhaps she just wasn’t certain about what she wanted to do yet. Then, it was as if fate stepped in. Honeydukes, the candy shop in Hogsmeade, so close to where she had been staying, was being put up for sale. She and her friend Amalia had admired it from time to time, wondering what it would be like to keep shop — any shop. She quickly enquired into aquiring the place as her own, and found that the owner had devised a plan, almost a contest, for giving it away. The objective was to write an essay — something Eva and Ami felt confident about — and a fee. The fee was an exorbitant twenty-five galleons. Eva and Amalia combined their savings, and found that they only had about eighteen galleons combined. The girls were devastated. Though they couldn’t come up with the entire fee, they wrote the essay anyway, and submitted it with as much money as they could gather, having decided that it would be better to have tried and lost than not to have taken the risk and regretted it the rest of their lives. The owner of the shop was so touched by their contribution that she awarded ownership of the shop to the girls, who were overjoyed. The Daily Prophet ran an article about their triumph, and the ‘touching story’ behind it, including a copy of their essay in it. The publicity from this brought many people to the shop from the start, as well as quite a few small donations, which helped Eva and Ami begin to remodel the shop to their liking. The girls were set up in shop, as owners.

The two managed to settle into a routine: Eva keeping books and doing much of the selling, and Amalia doing the shopping and making the candy (as Eva was apt to make it explode). It wasn’t long after they settled into this routine that the shop seemed to mysteriously become more popular. Perhaps it was Amalia’s skill in making candies, or perhaps it was the renovation; neither woman knew exactly why — nor did they care. It meant that they were living more than comfortably.

Eva began to head out in the evenings, usually to the Hog’s Head Tavern, though occasionally to other locations. She was a notorious flirt, and always had been, often preferring the company of men to that of women. It was no surprise, then, when in late 1923, she found that she was pregnant. The only problem with this was that she didn’t know who the father was! It was not a fact she advertised, however, and she found herself quite happily pregnant, going about her daily business. The only part that she found reason to complain about was the weight gain (and, boy, did she complain!). On June 25, 1924, she gave birth to twin girls, Josephine Elizabeth and Estelle Bidelia. While she still did not know who the father of her children was, she strongly suspected that it was Arnauld Ribouet, of the Hog’s Head Tavern.

Not three months later, Eva found herself pregnant again, though this time, she knew who the father was. It was Tommy Fallon, who owned Zonko’s Joke Shop, down the street from her own shop. She and Tommy stayed in close contact with one another all through her pregnancy. He would spend almost every day in her shop, occasionally bringing lunch, or toys, or the occasional pastry for Eva and Amalia to enjoy. It was during this time that Eva thought that it might be a good idea for her to start looking for a bigger place to live. Sure, the apartment above the shop was enough for now, but soon she and Amalia would start to get cramped, especially since Amalia was pregnant again, too, in addition to having a son just younger than Eva’s twins. Eva and Tommy looked around Hogsmeade, but found nothing that Eva could agree to. It was on a trip to Diagon Alley that she found an empty shop space. The two investigated it, and found that it had been empty for quite a long time, and was selling for a very reasonable price. Eva talked to Amalia, and finally, the two agreed that Eva would sell her half of the shop to Amalia, in favor of starting her own candy shop in Diagon Alley. She made plans with Tommy that he would help her move in after the baby was old enough to be moved — after a month or so.

Tommy agreed, and unbeknownst to Eva, began to make plans to move to London himself, in order to be nearer to his child — and Eva. All plans were set for Eva to move, though Tommy had still not found a place to live. The two were on a walk in Hogsmeade one day in mid-April, when Eva began to go into labor. Tommy became frantic, though Eva was quite calm. While he ran around, getting her ready to go, he stopped, grabbed Eva’s hands, and demanded that she marry him. So shocked was she that she couldn’t even give him an answer. Instead, her contractions became worse, and she had to get into bed. Tommy was ushered out of the room, forced to wait for an answer until after the agonizing time while his child was born. Charlotte Rose joined the family on April 20, 1925, to both Eva and Tommy’s great joy. Eva agreed, after a well-deserved nap, to marry Tommy, causing the latter to run out for pastries and iced cream and every other sweet treat he could get his hands on.

On August 3, Eva and Tommy were married in a pavillion in Hogsmeade. Shortly thereafter, they moved into the shop in Diagon Alley, and began to set up shop. They manage to get the whole thing complete just in time for the pre-Hogwarts rush. News got out that Eva had been a previous co-owner of Honeydukes, and though Amalia wasn’t the one making the candy (Maura Wexler, Eva’s cousin, was the one who now made the candy), people still flocked to her shop while they were in Diagon Alley.

Not long after her wedding, Eva found herself pregnant again. The apartment atop their shop was becoming more and more inadequate for their ever-growing family, and so Tommy and Eva resolved to purchase a home nearby so that Eva could still be close to her work and be able to look after the children as well. This situation worked out well and not long after, another child, the first boy, Arnold Slade Fallon joined the family. The year was a relatively uneventful one, with no major catastrophes befalling the family. Local events kept Eva on her toes, as well as discovering she was pregnant /again/. In mid-1927, Joscelyn Maureen Fallon joined the family, just as Tommy decided to start staying at home to care for the children and keep house.

1928 brought along Daphne Lorraine Fallon, and Eva was busier than ever with her shop, catering events and throwing miniature parties as advertisement, intended to draw more people into her shop and spread its reputation. This put a bit of a strain on her home life as her night got later and later. This did not, however, prevent the advent of Edwin Jared and Edina Jordan Fallon into the family in 1929. With now eight children to care for, Tommy was as busy if not busier than Eva was with her shop, and the two hardly had time to see one another. Eva began spending many of her nights out late and later, but not now planning soirees and preparing for events – now she was out with a gentleman. The two were spotted occasionally, but Eva had dined so many people out that most who saw her out regularly assumed it was a business relationship, so the gossip was low on that front. However, Eva’s friendship with Simon Spearing was more than simply a business relationship. It was without a doubt the reason she was staying out later. It fizzled after several rather heated months and the two parted ways, and it was only after this time that Eva once again found herself pregnant. This pregnancy was the hardest one for her, given that she was wracked with guilt over the situation. Tommy did not have to think long to figure out what was what, however. The two had a confrontation, and Eva admitted to her affair, heartbreaking though it was for her to do. For a time, the two separated, Eva living above the shop and Tommy staying at their home with the children. Eva would visit, but of course it wasn’t the same. This separation lasted for only five months before they decided that it would be better overall if they tried to work it out in the same home, if for no other purpose than for the sake of their nine children.

Eva’s life became much more subdued after this. She no longer spent long evenings, and if she did, she was sure to send communication to Tommy telling him exactly where she was and what she was doing. Things slowly began to get better, and the shop continued to flourish as she rented out the apartment above her shop to Tahiri Sol, who she also hired on at the shop as a full time employee, and Felicity, her cousin and Maura’s younger sister, who had acquired employment with Madame Malkin’s down the road. Things seemed to be looking up at home as well, though she and Tommy were certainly not as blissfully happy as they had been before Eva’s transgressions. 1931 was looking up for the woman.

In 1932, Eva began again to look at plans for opening a second shop. She had mulled it over in the late ’20s, but the idea had gone by the wayside as she kept conceiving and her family life began to fall apart slightly. Now that things were back in order (if not perfect), Eva felt that it was time. Much of her time was spent away from the shop, instead scouting out good locations to put a new candy shop. Obviously Hogsmeade was out of the question – she had no interest in trying to compete with her longtime friend and former co-owner, Amalia Amithest. 1932 came and went before Eva was able to find a truly stellar location to open another Cordial Confections shop.

By March of 1933, Eva had found a quaint little spot in Brighton which had a reasonable amount of traffic and which wasn’t incredibly expensive. She finished negotiating the purchase of the storefront by April and construction began shortly after on the new site. Eva spent a lot of her time at the new store, leaving the original under Maura’s care, with Joseph and Felicity to help her out. It was during this year that the Fallon family finally decided it was time for a little more help. They hired a nanny by the name of Augustine Matilda Smith. Tildy, as she quickly became known at the Fallon home, helped care for the children, giving Tommy a break from the childrens’ constant needs and cries for attention. This allowed Tommy to pursue some non-familial interests, and it helped improve his and Eva’s relationship. By the end of 1933, the new store was just about done, and Eva planned a new year’s day opening for it.

On January 1, 1934, Eva’s second shop, The Confectionary, opened in Brighton on the high street. She threw a huge gala for the residents of Brighton and involved all of the Wexlers and the Fallons that she could round up in the bash. The Brighton residents would not quickly forget the opening of The Confectionary, with its purple and blue striped signage and colorful displays.

It was toward summertime of 1934 that Eva’s oldest daughters began to beg her to send them to Hogwarts. It was only then that it dawned on the woman that her oldest children were nearly of a Hogwarts-bound age. Because the twins only turned ten that year, she quite obviously did not heed their begging, pleading or demanding, but she slowly began to prepare for the onslaught of costs that the next seven years were bound to bring. She started to set aside money slowly for the supplies and robes and wands and everything else that small students need all at once.

The remainder of 1934 and the first half of 1935 were a blur for Eva, who had a lot to contend with, balancing two stores, a husband, nine children, a nanny and then of course the rest of her extended family. By the time Josie and Essie’s birthdays came around, Eva had nearly forgotten that they were going to Hogwarts that year to begin their official magical schooling. In August of that year, Eva, Tommy and the twins began to make trips around Diagon Alley, acquiring wands and robes, books and quills and parchment and every other little knick-knack that Eva could think of to supply them with. Before she knew it, her oldest were on the train to Hogwarts. Eva was proud of both of her daughters when she found out that they had been sorted – one to Ravenclaw and one to Hufflepuff. There wasn’t much time to dwell on the pride, though, since she still had just as many things to balance at home, in addition to preparing for Charlotte to head to Hogwarts. To Eva, the years seemed to fly.

It seemed as if the next time she turned around, little Charlotte was eleven years old and she and Tommy were again traveling through Diagon Alley to acquire her own personal supplies. Charlotte was sorted to Slytherin, meaning that each of their three Hogwarts-age children so far was sorted to a different house. Before they knew it, 1936 was well on its way, and soon Eva was preparing once again for another child to leave for Hogwarts. Next year, it would be Arnold’s turn.

Personality

The epitome of youngest child, Eva is used to getting what she wants and not used to having to wait for it. She is willing to charm her way through tough situations, and starting from a young age was frequently shielded from true consequence of situation. These traits have stayed with her through adulthood, though they have become more mild with age. The woman is much more subtle about her poking and prodding when she’s trying to get something from someone else, and she’s less likely (by far) to throw a temper tantrum.

Eva’s conversation with strangers and hardly-known acquaintances tends toward the frivolous and unsubstantial. She’s more inclined to joke and make fun than to actually voice opinions over anything unless she knows the party in question well. It is then that Eva’s “social butterfly” nature vanishes and she becomes slightly more serious and for some, formidable. Eva is not inclined to take any horse-hockey from anyone that she actually knows, and does not hesitate to call out any falsehoods that she can easily disprove. Her temper, particularly with those she knows well, is something to be reckoned with. Eva’s temper is slow to come, but when it does come – it stays. It does not stay quietly, either; the woman is inclined to yelling and, when pushed far enough, physical violence.

Intelligence has always been something that Eva has valued, particularly in herself, and she never hesitates to try to better herself with increased knowledge. She is a woman who does not like to admit that she doesn’t know something, and will often artfully change the topic of conversation or refrain from comment if she cannot speak intelligently on a subject. Hard work, however, has never been one of her strong suits, and while she values the knowledge, it is sometimes overly tedious for her to acquire it, and while she will usually force herself through the “ordeal,” it makes her terse as a result.

Coupled with her need to appear intelligent, Eva is incredibly opinionated and vocal. She is talkative, as well, and the three traits couple together to make her sound (often unintentionally) pompous. This is generally only with people who she knows quite well, many of whom feel comfortable telling her to lay off, if need be. Generally, however, Eva is inclined to lay the charm on thick, and it can be said that she has offended very few of her customers with her words, though her actions may not please.

Description

Standing less than five and a half feet tall, Eva has never been considered a very large woman. She has a curvy figure, which is aided as much by the corsets as the materials will allow. She counts her figure among her best attributes, though it has become noticeably thicker over the years. The woman has dark green eyes (which sometimes appear hazel). The fair skin across her nose and cheeks is peppered with freckles which frame her eyes and conceal her cheekbones which might otherwise be considered too apparent. She has dark brown hair which is quite curly and has a tendency to look messy if not carefully tended. Gray hairs sneak in among the dark brown, which sometimes seems to have a reddish sheen to it, showing her age, and her face is starting to lose its youthful appearance, and she has matured into womanhood well. Some small wrinkles have begun to appear around her eyes and her mouth, bringing her closer to her actual age than her appearance once used to suggest.

Outfits

Cordial Confections Uniform

While she may work in the candy shop, being the owner, Eva feels that she needs to look the part. As such, she has dreamed up an ensemble to match the theming colors of her shop. The woman wears a bold blue skirt, without any additional adornment to it, which is quite full and comes down just above the floor. Her shirt is a pale purple with darker purple vertical stripes running down it. The sleeves come down to her elbows, where there are small ruffles all the way around. The neckline of her shirt, which buttons up the front, is high, coming just up to her chin, where there are more small ruffles to match those at her elbows. Her hair is pulled up as best she can manage to keep it out of the way while she works. She wears a cream colored apron over the front which comes down to around her knees and attaches around her waist and her neck. On the front, the logo of Cordial Confections is embroidered in dark purple and bright blue.  She wears dainty brown boots which occasionally peek out from underneath her skirt.

Purple Suit Dress

Ever the business woman, Eva has commissioned an ensemble evocative of a man’s business suit. She wears a white, button down shirt with a high, stiff collar. At the front of the collar, she wears a cameo brooch. The jacket of the dress is a rich purple and is well fitted. The back has a collar which comes up as high as the white shirt’s collar. The shoulders have very slight puffs to them and they fall very straight down, where some embroidery in a darker purple adds interest to the wrist-line of the gown. The jacket comes in narrow and attaches at the waist without closing all the way. The skirt is full and starts just above where the jacket attaches, beginning at her narrow waist and extending out from her hips to the floor. The skirt has some line-work embroidery which matches that of the sleeves, in the same dark purple. Occasionally, Eva’s dainty brown boots can be seen peeking out from underneath her dress. The woman’s hair is pulled up and tamed as much as she can manage, and she has a smart brown hat on her head with a fairly wide brim. Around the hat is a ribbon in the dark purple of the embroidery.

Blue Gown

Eva wears a gown in pale blue, in a style that was popular for muggles circa 1902. It is well fitted, contoured to her curves. The fabric has a sort of rouching effect on the back and on the lower waist, before falling in heavy folds down to the floor. The dress has a high neck, which comes all the way up to her chin in a gray lace, while the front of the dress has some intricate gray beadwork on her left shoulder, in the shape of flowers. The sleeves are easily the highlight of her dress, though. The actual sleeves come about halfway down her upper arm, at which point is attached a sheer blue fabric matching the shade of the dress. This fabric hangs down to just below her elbow in the front and in the back hangs long, down to the length of her fingertips when her arms rest at her sides. The edge of the fabric is decorated with the same gray beads that adorn the shoulder of the gown. In her hair, Eva has two gray barretts to help bring the ensemble together.

Green Gown

More conservative than a younger Eva might have been, this green gown is still well fitted, hugging her curves from top to bottom. The dress has a heavy look about it, possibly helped by the dark green fabric, which has a velvety appearance to it, which the dress is entirely made out of. It has long sleeves which come down to her wrists, at which point cream colored lace cuffs have been affixed. The collar of the dress is in a matching cream lace and creates almost a small cape over her shoulders. The waist of the dress draws in close, exaggerating her already curvaceous figure, and in the back is a small strap of fabric, attached with two dark green buttons. The front of the dress falls down without any embroidery or lace until the bottom, where the hem of the dress has two rows of ruffles, each lined with the same cream lace as the neckline and wrists. The back of the dress has a moderate train which trails behind her about a foot. The train comes down from just below her rear in pleats and falls to the floor where the hem has the same decoration of ruffles as the front of the dress. In her hair, which is pulled up, is tucked one artificial pink rose.

Lavender Day Dress

Eva is wearing a very bold colored lavender skirt, which just reaches the floor. She has on a purple plaid waist, which accents her curves very nicely. Her shirt is of a light cream color, with elbow-length sleeves, perfectly fitted for summer. The sleeves have a small bit of lace trim around them, and the collar of the shirt is entirely lace. It lays down against her shoulders gracefully. She has on stylish black boots, well worn, obviously, but kept in very good condition, none-the-less. Her hair pulled into a stylish bun on the back of her head. She has a black wizard’s hat clutched in her hand, which rarely goes on her head; only when absolutely necessary. Her wintertime garb includes some green and blue striped mittens and a matching scarf, as well as a heavy black coat, although not in the most modern mode, still very serviceable.

Gold Ball Gown

Clad in ornately embroidered gold fabric, Eva’s dress has a high neck. Its accents are all in black, swirling over the back of her gown in intricate patterns. The dress is high-waisted, presumably to cover the ever-growing belly that it conceals, though the pattern does seem to take away from the bulge at her front. The dress has long sleeves with slightly puffed shoulders, quite the fashion of thirty years past, though Eva wears it with confidence. The collar has a large black button at the neck, which matches the gold accent pieces which adorn the woman’s brown, curly hair. The gown comes to the floor with only a slight train trailing behind her, and a bit of black lace edging the bottom. The same black lace loops over the waist of the dress, as well as lining the cuffs and collar, creating a rather antique look to the gown, despite the shine of the gold fabric.

Red and Gold Soirée Gown

Eva’s dress is more ornate than one might usually think a sweets shop owner might wear. The dress itself is a rich red shade, akin to bright rubies, with dropped shoulders, seeming to hang dangerously just at the edge of her shoulders. On the red fabric, there is a good deal of gold embroidery, swirled around in a seemingly random pattern. The top edge of her dress dips low, showcasing a good bit of cleavage, which has a bit of white lace to accentuate it even more. At the shoulders begin some sleeves, which only go down to her elbows, at which some decorative lace comes off in a bit of a bell shape. The waist is thin, obviously aided by a corset. At the waist, there is a belt-like pattern of gold embroidery which comes down to a point, and seems to designate where the skirt is meant to flare out. It does its job as the skirt flares out wide in the same ornate pattern as the bodice, and has a slight train. There is lace that matches the sleeves trimming the bottom of the skirt. At her face, she has a mask, matching the red and gold of her dress, with the same lace trimming it, and three black feathers attached at the left. The mask seems to be affixed by magic as there are no strings or stick present to aid in the keeping it to her face. Her hair is coiffed up atop her head, and small feathers are put in among the dark brown curls, seeming to accentuate their shine for this evening event.

Cream and Lace Gown

Clad in a warm cream shade, Eva is dressed in less brilliant colors than she might have done when she was yet in her 20′s. The dress is more ornate than one might usually expect to see in every-day life, however. The skirt is full and wide, with a sash that just brushes the floor, sweeping down off of her left hip. The skirt is full, adorned only by a bit of lacework laid over the cream fabric, matching the lace in other places on the dress. The sash is made of the same cream fabric of the majority of the dress and is sewn into the waist of the dress, and is decorated with a few false flowers in a dusky red shade. The waist is fitted, emphasizing the contour of her middle – which is very likely aided by a corset’s boning – and is fitted up to the woman’s shoulders. The sleeves are puffed moderately down to the elbows, and the sleeves bell out with gentle lace decor at the end of the sleeve, which comes down just to the wrist, where it pulls in to create a smaller bell of lace. The collar is high and made of lace, while the neckline of the dress is not cut low, there is just enough cut to show off the woman’s neck through the sheer lace. She wears a flower matching those on her dress in her hair to tie the ensemble together.