After some more searching in my cupboards, through local charity shops and the haberdashery, I had found…
Matching red fabric (in the shape of a second dress), rough cream fabric (in the shape of a skirt), smooth cream fabric, a short-sleeved cream cardigan, beige scarf, suitable boots and some thin bendy dress boning.
The main dress itself was a relatively simple job of reshaping the neckline and adding the cream edge and centre detail. Then cutting the scarf to create a tasselled bottom edge which was sewn on. The important thing to look out for here is a T-shirt type fabric; it doesn’t fray much, so worked perfectly.
The cardigan needed to have a red edge added at the back, which was nicely supplied by the second red dress. Luckily the main dress had long enough sleeves to be able to tuck around the cardigan sleeve to create the red cuffs. The lower arm cuffs were cut off the second dress, and I added a section of the scarf for the beige part, again the fabric worked well here because it offered some stretch.
The hood used another section of the second dress; the bottom edge offered a pre-sewn line that I could thread the dress boning through to create the wide hood opening. I added some smooth cream fabric to the centre of the hood, making sure not to sew closed the tube the boning was going to be fed through. To help the hood stay a little more rigid at the top, I used some thin plastic slid between the cream and red fabric. Some left-over scarf scraps were also added for the wrapped detail.
It took a little while to find the finishing touches. I dismantled a necklace, and with the help of some leather string, I created the three necklaces. The hood charms were also from a necklace which I repurposed. Plus I found some bangles, which were a random set from various charity shops but worked well enough together.
By no means was it the best job I could have done, but given the time I had and materials on hand, I was, and still am, really proud of what I created.