Denial Dress
The Denial Dress is based on the literary version of Alice where her original dress in the book The Nursery "Alice" was yellow as she last visited Wonderland when she was seven years old.
Appearance
Dress Symbols
- Infinity – ∞ – Endlessness; represents the concept of infinity.
- Heart – ♡ – Love; represents the center of emotion and signifies both physical and eternal love.
Dress
Based on Alice’s original yellow dress from the book, but with a twist, the Denial Dress is a yellow knee-length dress, textured to resemble a padded cell with short puffy frilled sleeves adorned with silver lacing and beads, and a collar with a small moon underneath. It is also worn with a classic white-frilled pinafore apron with sleeves that have a single blue stripe on each shoulder that matches the design of the apron. The apron’s pockets have the signs of Infinity and Heart sewn on in blue stitching. She wears a cute blue bow in her hair that has a card guard skull in the center, and blue stockings with a small tear on the right along with classic black platform Mary Janes complete with moon detailing on the back.
On the back of the dress, the twist comes in with horror elements as her dress is torn and frayed from head-to-toe and covered in ash and dirt. The wrap-around bow on the back of the dress has three screaming card guard skulls instead of a usual bow knot. Underneath the dress, her frayed petticoat can be seen covered in blood that reads, “It’s your fault.” repeatedly.
Trivia
- One of the first colorized versions of Tenniel's images were created for The Nursery "Alice", a shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under his supervision. Alice's dress was yellow in this edition.
- Subsequent colorized versions have dressed Alice in different colors, including red, orange, and chartreuse before an edition came out with her in her well known blue dress.
- The idea is that Alice enters into Asylum looking at a Wonderland which denies the fire and destruction of her mental state – reflected on the dress which is perfect on the front and ‘horrid’ in the back...
