The gown embodies so many different things about her, but that dual quality, that youthful dewy romanticism and nubile sensuality co-exist in the design of the dress
Measurements:Bust 26", Hips 38", Length 56", Waist 24"
The tempting young men are nearly overmatched by the tempting dresses, the rose organdie with long pink sash, or the green plaid taffeta, frothing with flounces and each flounce edged in green velvet ribbon, or the butter-yellow watered silks with garlands of rosebuds. In the long period during which Mitchells audience of American girls could retain their status until late middle age, and then on through the years of tension between growing freedom and obdurate complicity, Scarlett OHara has remained a congenial paragon of contradiction: a prodigy of femininity in full rebellion, an expert in the disdained tactics of sex, a master of her world who is never less than wildly desirablecapability and authority with a seventeen-inch waist
Available in a firecracker red hue, this satin dress has a high neck with a tie closure at the nape of the neck, which cascades down onto the open back