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As the daughter of a duke, sister of a king, and a queen in her own right, Morgan Le Fay is richly dressed in fine fabrics, silver, pearls and precious stones, with a crown to signify royalty and a crystal talisman to signify magical powers.

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Morgan Le Fay

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Morgan Le Fay

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Morgan Le Fay

"The mighty Morgan the Fay, who lives on my manor,
Whose mastery of magic is manipulated with craft,
Learned to a large degree from the lore of great Merlin--
For indeed she had a long and lasting love
With that crafty wizard, who is known to your country's knights
As one of fame;
Therefore Morgan the goddess
Rightly is her name,
Nobody's so wild against her
That she can't make him tame--"
 
--excerpt from "Gawain and the Green Knight"; the speaker is the knight Bertilak de Hautdesert, who had been disguised as the monstrous Green Knight by Morgan's arts.

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Morgan Le Fay

Morgan's outfit comes in four separate, and removable parts: bodice, underskirt, overskirt and sleeves. The bodice and full underskirt (called a kirtle)  are made of the silver-gray, satiny material, which has a subtle sheen to it. The bodice has a popular rennaissance style: a squared, low-cut neckline, nipped-in waist, and peplum which flares over the hips; it is a double-thickness--lined with the same fabric , and embellished with a black and silver diamond-shaped decorative piece studded with black beads. The bodice closes in back with black ribbon, cross-gartered between pearl buttons. The bodice has double straps of pearls and the hem of the skirt is also trimmed with pearls--a favorite jewel of the Middle ages and Renaissance, believed to have healing and protective powers.

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Morgan Le Fay

The overskirt is of a sheer, black netting, extremely full and forming a slight train in back; it is split up the middle to show off more of the underskirt and trimmed in intricately-interwoven black braid. The overskirt ties at the waist under the peplum with doubled black ribbon.

The separate sleeves are also of the black netting; they attach to the arm by cross-gartering with black ribbon. The sleeves are decorated with silver medallions at the top and silver, filigreed balls at the tips; the ribbons of the sleeves and bodice are also trimmed with the silver balls. Sleeves in this period were often detachable: as a practical issue it was easiest to attach sleeves  by tying them rather than sewing them to the bodice and/or cross-gartering them down the arm for a better fit.  As a matter of fashion and courtly culture detachable over-sleeves were often used as the ladies token, to be given to her chosen knight to carry into the tournament.

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Morgan Le Fay

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Morgan Le Fay

Morgan's jewelry includes pearl earrings, a pearl circlet or crown highlighted with a black, tiger-eyed, semi-precious stone, and attached at the back by a silver wire clasp shaped into opposing whorls. She has a large filigreed silver "ring" and the spectacular silver necklace which wraps multiple times around her slender throat and dangles a pendant of perfectly round crystal held in a silver dragon's claw.

The doll (originally the Addam's Family's Morticia) has received a sealed, partial repaint with clear grey eyes, silvery-blue eye shadow highlighted with a sheer, pearly pink. Her hip-length raven hair, with red-brown highlights, lies in long, loose ringlets, while the front is twisted back and tucked over and under the pearl circlet.

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