5/9/2023 0 Comments The prince and dressmaker![]() I think my favorite part of the novel was, quite honestly, the ending. He stated that, “it’s weird, I don’t feel like Prince Sebastian could lead a nation into battle, but Lady Crystallia could.” Sebastian sees himself and Lady Crystallia as two separate people, but at the end, he learns that he is both Sebastian and Lady Crystallia. The first time that we see Sebastian in a dress made by Francis, he is glowing and you can tell that he is in his element. The content of the novel had the perfect mixture of happy and heartbreaking scenes. I loved how on the pages that separated each chapter, the art was different sections of a dress design. ![]() ![]() The art style was fun and really felt like it fit the story well. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found that there wasn’t much that I would change or want to be different as I read it. Francis spends her time making extravagant dresses for the Prince, but overtime, begins to feel stunted by the need to keep the Prince’s alter ego a secret. ![]() Set in Paris during the dawn of the modern age, the book follows a young prince named Sebastian and his personal seamstress named Francis as they take the Paris fashion world by storm.ĭuring the day, Sebastian is the Crown Prince of Belgium who is searching for a wife, but, at night, he is Lady Crystallia. “The Prince and the Dressmaker” by Jen Wang is a wonderful graphic novel that explores themes of gender and familial expectations. ![]()
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