That is the little cape-like garnment over the italian renaissance dress (called gamura).
No matter how beautiful your dress itself, somehow, it is not a full outfit without a giornea.
It is like the cape of superheroes, flows after you, though its role is actually add a layer of warmth and protects your dress from... whatever, it can encounter in everyday wearing.
For many years I did not have one, so I set out to figure out how to make one.
I looked at patterns, I looked at paintings and I looked at pictures of women wearing it, and I took a good, hard and long look of the piece of velvet I had in my fabric stash to see how can I squeeze out someting fitting.
I've tried to scroll through my phone-pictures, to see if I have some pictures of making it, but I could not find any, so you will have to do it with only me wearing it.
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