Princesses Stage Divas

Stage clothes are designed to be seen from far away under harsh light, and almost everything that follows from that is counter-intuitive.

Fine detail vanishes. Subtle colour turns to grey. What survives is silhouette, hard contrast and anything that catches light, which is why performers wear things that look excessive close up and correct from row twenty. Build something tasteful and it will disappear the moment it is on stage.

So the brief here is to overdo it deliberately, which is a strange instruction in a dress up game and a genuinely useful one to try.