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Wedding Dress: Mulan

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i'm still in love with anything wedding related. 
and to satisfy this obsession, I had an idea to draw each of the 10 disney princesses in a wedding dress thats historically accurate (or culturally) fuzed with the official gown that Disney created for them. 

this was inspired by :iconshoomlah:'s historically accurate disney princess series shoomlah.deviantart.com/galler… and the official disney princess inspired wedding dresses by Alfred Angelo www.disneybridal.com/
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It feels like i've been working on this forever! And it kinda was. Started the drawing in September 2014. Didn't finish until Feb. 2015.
BUT MULAN OUR HONORABLE HONORARY PRINCESS IS HERE!
her official disney gown (technically she has 3 dresses if u include the matchmaker one):
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Most of the historical aspects I got from Shoomlah. But since I am of Chinese descent, this stuff should be second nature to me. But the movie "Mulan" is all over the place in terms of historical accuracy. It captured the essence of China but not the right time periods.

Here's a list of stuff I had to dig through to determine the direction I went in.
- Tang dynasty based on Shang's wedding hat
- Wei, Jin dynasty clothes
- Tang dynasty hair
- Armor based on Qin/Tang/Song dynasty
- styles and customs vary depending on time period and province and individual family culture.
- Zhao Wei's "Mulan" based in 450 AD Sui Dynasty (matched w/ Disney's emperor)
- "oh disney, disney, disney.....u got stuff all over the place! i'm sooo tempted to fix Shang's outfit too @__@" 
- Settled with Tang cuz it was most similar to movie canons. Concept art showed Tang
- yes Chinese do use veil, mostly in Qing to modern day
- Chinese traditionally marry in red. Red is a lucky color.
- Mulan has three wedding dresses, neither were legitly close to historically accurate.

What I decided on:
- Tang dynasty style.
Since Mulan is marrying Shang, and Shang is a general, of course her clothes had to be elaborate due to Shang's high status. Also, even if Mulan did not cut her hair, she still would've had to wear a wig (hair extensions) to add volume to the elaborate hair they had back then.
I kept her usual fallen piece of hair, made her makeup more appropriate to the Tang dynasty, while keeping true to the movie version. Kept her grandmother's accessories given in the movie.  Lot's of flower motifs in reference to her namesake.

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Hope you all enjoy this series. 

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Snow White - zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/…
Cinderella - zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/…
Aurora - zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/…
Ariel - zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/…
Belle - zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/…
Jasmine - zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/…
Pocahontas - zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/…
Mulan - (you are here)
Tiana - zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/…
Rapunzel - zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/…

(Official Disney Princess line-up only, pre-Brave, pre-Frozen)
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She looks so elegant and majestic!