One of the most moving moments was when Elise made the "I Love You" speech during her performance in the play. The more I have researched into this dress the more interesting facts I find out about it.

My first discovery was after watching the video of "Titanic." The design of this gown is identical to Rose's Dinner and Heaven dresses. We will go into this more next week when we discuss the Titanic costumes.

That was a lot of money to put into one costume considering the budget of $4 million. I wonder who took off with the gown. I read the production diary for the film in the book, Somewhere in Time, Behind the Scenes of the Making. The theft of the gown was never mentioned.

To the right is my latest find concerning the "I Love You" gown and Titanic Rose dresses. If you look carefully at this gown and the other gowns you will notice that the dresses look like a copy of this 1910s Charles Worth Gown in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. This is a bookmark I purchased recently at another museum.

The House of Worth had been known in the fashion industry as one of the most innovative and expensive designers of gowns.

After my recent bookmark find, I wondered did the costume designers go to the V&A and copy the gown, or did Dorleac copy the original and Deborah Scott copied him. I will discuss this theory more next week.

BTW, this is the dress that Dorleac called the "Vanilla Almond" gown.

Elise's "I Love You" Gown Rendering

Photo credit: Somewhere in Time, Behind the Scenes of the Making

1910s Worth Gown

Photo credit: V&A Museum