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During the Summer of 2006, I ran a tournament to determine which Padme gown was the fans' favorite. While the eventual winner was the Villa Retreat Gown, one of the best parts of the Tournament was the comments where fans could share their opinions on the gowns. I thought it would be fun to make that part of the site permanently! Here you can read other fans' thoughts on the costumes and feel free to use the FORM at the bottom to send in your own opinions to be posted here!

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Adi - SWFFAQ
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Pre-Senate Gown - I love everything about this gown - esp. the beadwork and the colors! I love the headdress too, especially the dangling beads
2. Throne Room Gown - Gotta love the red and gold embroidery! Gorgeous! It's such an iconic look.
3. Senate Gown - It's just so over the top and amazing! The details on every layer are incredible. I feel in love with it at first site.
4. Nightgown and Robe - The robe is so gorgeous and rich and I love the delicate the embroidery on the nightgown. Nat looks so beautiful.

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Final Senate Gown - No shape and the only detail - the brooches - look ugly and cheap. UGH! I'm not particularly a big fan of purple either.
2. Post-Senate Gown - It takes alot to make Nat ugly The beading is very pretty but the overall shape, the 'furry' material and the foreknot not so much.
3. Revelation Gown - Again, no shape and the headdress is fugly

Gown that's Grown on Me: Peacock Gown
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: Return Home and Villa Retreat
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Sleeveless OutfitFavorite Non-Padme Costume:Breha Organa though I am rather fond of Dorme's outfits and the female Jedi like Shaak Ti and Luminara
padme_anakinfangirl
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Wedding Dress - this gown is just SOOO incredibly beautiful,the details are incredible and natalie looks so lovely in it!!
2. Water Gown - everything about this gown is gorgeous-the rich colors,the way it looks just like water,the hair,the flowers-simply stunning.
3. Meadow Picnic - the bodice's details are beautiful & i love how breezy it is.
4. Nightgown and Robe -though simple,the robe is simply gorgeous and Natalie just looks so beautiful.
5. Arena Outfit -it's just such a cool outfit & i love the little details!
6. Green Robe -a simple design that's so rich & beautiful,i love the hair, and natalie is beautiful!

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Post-Senate Gown - i just dislike everything about it,especially the patterning & hairstyle.
2. Return to Naboo - 'puffy' and unflattering
3. Tatooine Peasant - the outfit is just UGH! but the hair's cool.
4. Final Senate - the hair is awesome but,as Adi said, it has no shape or detail.

Gown that's Grown on Me: Peacock Gown
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: Mustafar Outfit-Nat looks lovely,but i just don't care for it
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Nightgown & Robe, Refugee Disguise (w/o the veil)
Favorite Non-Padme Costume:Leia's Bespin Dress
Tori
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Water Gown - The way it looks like water is just cool.
2. Veranda Nightgown - Nat just looks very pretty.
3. Green Robe - It has a simple shape, but the green is just so rich and the Naboo symbols on it are lovely. And it has to be one of the gowns that Nat looks best in.
4. Meadow Picnic - It is very romantic and I just love the detail on the corset.

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. The Tatooine Cloak and Underdress - Why does everyone like it????????? I think it is so plain and ugly! Nat wears too much blue and it is a lot like the Return Home Gown. I think the cloak on the Return Home Gown is much prettier than the Tatooine Cloak and Underdress.
2. Post-Senate - What is with the top-knot?
3. Senate Address Gown - Ugh, the gown is so dark! Nat looks better in lighter colors. And the hair bothers me.
4. Final Senate - I wish it wasn't so plain....
5. Blue Linen Dress - Why so blah? It is too dark.Grown on me: Peacock Gown

Gown that's Grown on Me: Peacock Gown
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: Tatooine Cloak and Underdress
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Senate Gown in TPM
Favorite Non-Padme Costume:Dorme's Senate Cloak
Other: Sabe's Battle Dress- They could at least change the hair....
The Senate Gown in TPM- Why do they cover it up with that big furry cloak???? The gown is just so beautiful with the bead work. Nat is not a stuffed animal, so why did they cover it up???
Bridgette
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Packing Gown - I saw this one first, and it has always been my favorite. The headdress and the whole thing give it a very regal air, and I love the way it moves!
2. Tatooine Cloak & Underdress. - This was a hard one to pick as I also love the lake dress. But the midriff wins out, its so soft and pretty!
3. Villa Retreat Dress - OOOH those RIPPLES done in colors like that!! It makes her look like she's floating!
4. Revelation Gown - Not an easy choice, but I really love the embroidery and beads on this one, and the headdress really looks great on Padme.

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Tatooine Blue Dress - odd, huh? I felt this one was just too much of an un-shaped piece, and didn't look good. Just my tiny opinion, however. The colors were nice and the fabrics beautiful, though.

Gown that's Grown on Me: Wedding Gown
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: Tatooine Blue
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Packing GownFavorite Non-Padme Costume:Barriss & Luminara *tied*
Amanda
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Villa Retreat Gown - It is my favorite and it is really beautiful.
2. Water Gown - The gown looks good on Nat and it is one of my favorite's in AOTC.
3. Nightdress and Robe - The dress is beautiful, simple and really fashionable.
4. Green Robe - I love the way it is made and the green is a very rich color on Nat and it is beautiful.
5. Pre-Senate Gown - The colors are very bold, pretty, and I like the shape of the gown over all.

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Post-Senate - I like the dress but i don't like the hairstyle.
2. Travel Gown - I like the color but i don't like the way it looks on Nat.
3. Refugee Disguise - The color is very dark, it's not a good color on Nat, but over all it is a disguise.

Gown that's Grown on Me: Villa Retreat
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: Meadow Picnic
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Green RobeFavorite Non-Padme Costume:Parade Handmaiden Gown
Cristhekool
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Revelation Gown - The color is perfect for Nat's complexion, and the details are just stunning. I espescially love the way the different colors of purple stand out: the darker velvet, crinkly lavender and the warmer-toned headdress. Gorgeous.
2. Green Robe - Color plus texture plus design plus Natalie Portman/Padme. Nuff said I think. And I just love the scene with the silence communication, and this dress just worked with it.
3. Dressing Gown - The texture and tone are delicious, and I can't get enough of the trimming up the arms. So lovely.
4. Water Gown - So appropriate, and the blue suits so well. Love the wave-like appearance of the dress fabric.
5. Wedding Dress - I want this gown!!! It's just what I would picture wearing at my own wedding. Lovely, intricate, delicate, yet so understatedly right...kinda like Anakin and Padme's relationship.
6. Villa Retreat - The way this dress looks when Padme is moving is phenomenal. The flow, the cut, and the blending of colors is very elegant. Although it is a revealing and sensual gown, it also lends Padme an air of importance.
7. Nightgown and Robe - This set gives Nat a healthy, fresh look. She\'s so sultry in this, and I love her hair! It's the most unruffled we ever see her naturally.
8. Post-Senate - So somber and yet so elegant. I love the way they did up her hair. She appears so unapproachable and yet so vulnerable.
9. Escape from Naboo - Although Padme technically doesn't wear this, I still love the air it lends and the grace of it. The headpiece is awesome.

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Aqua Nightgown - I thought Padme looked rather pale in this gown. Maybe that was the point, but it just doesn\'t suit her.
2. Final Senate - It looks like she has devil horns!
3. Senate Address - The mustard is awful, and the dress is just plain blah.
4. Pilot Disguise - The colors just don't match, but all around it's not too bad.

Gown that's Grown on Me: Tatooine Blue
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: Parade Gown
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Water GownFavorite Non-Padme Costume:Anakin's Traveling Vest
Kristen
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Wedding Dress - beading - whoa!
2. Mustafar Outfit - so completely original trilogy with amazing hair.
3. Tatooine Cloak Underdress -I love how it gathers around her stomach, the detailing and her hair!
4. And of course... the Meadow Picnic Gown

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Final Senate - yuck yuck...no shape...
2. Revelation Gown - she looks like a big velvet triangle with a very weird hairdo
3. Refugee Disguise - I HATE this one...it is gross...no shape, the pattern is weird and it isn't even a good color.

Gown that's Grown on Me: Dressing Gown
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: Arena Outfit - ..don't like this one....what are you all thinking?
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Tatooine Cloak Underdress
Favorite Non-Padme Costume:Dorme's Goodbye Dress
Adalia_Jean
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Water Gown - The colors and details and everything is just so pretty and it fits the moment perfectly in the movie
2. Throne Room Gown - This dress says "Star Wars" to me
3. Peacock Gown -The work and detail in this gown is amazing
4. Pre-Senate Gown - The headdress and style is just so interesting
5. Villa Retreat Gown - Beautiful
6. Green Robe - Simple yet so elegent

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Return to Naboo - ugh. I can't get past that headdress
2. Post-Senate Gown
3. Blue Linen Dress - Just does nothing for me

Gown that's Grown on Me: Refugee Disguise
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: Aqua Nightgown
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Meadow Picnic
Favorite Non-Padme Costume:Parade Handmaiden Cloak
Marie
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Veranda Nightgown - I love they way the silk is flowing around her, revealing her pregnancy
2. Water Gown - Padmé looks incredibly beautiful and I really like the parallel between the gown and Ophelia's death
3. Villa Retreat - It's a gorgeous, revealing gown for the right scene ~the first kiss~
4.the Wedding Gown - At first I didn't like the veil, but I'm fine with it now, it's a really lovely gown. Basically: I love all gowns.... I could go on for ages...

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Post-Senate Gown - Well... It's not really as beautiful as the other gowns....
2. Return to Naboo - Like... where is Nat? Somewhere hidden beneath a huge headdress and an even bigger gown...
3. Coruscant Nightdress - They could have made it more... detailed...

Gown that's Grown on Me: Peacock Gown
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: Can't think of one
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Water Gown
Favorite Non-Padme Costume:Handmaidens' Pre-Senate Cloak
Becca
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Meadow Picnic - Yeah, yeah, I know I didn't support it in the end, but it's still my favorite! But JellyBellys was right, the 'rolling around in the grass' part was stupid.
2. Battle Dress - It just looks so cool on her!
3. Loyalist Committee - It looks sososo great on Nat, and the hair is...okay...
4. Green Robe - It looks so soft and fuzzy! And her hair is GORGEOUS!

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Water Gown -SHE'S DEAD PEOPLE!!!!
2. Blue Linen Dress - The hair's okay, but I just don't like it.
3. Return to Naboo - She's a, as my friend would put it, SOCK HEAD!
4. Tatooine Cloak - I loathe this dress.

Gown that's Grown on Me: Packing Gown - Okay, she may have bat ears, but it looks kind of cool!
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: THE FREAKIN' WATER GOWN-SHE IS DEAD!!!
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Return Home Gown- I love this look on Nat! It's so lovely.Favorite Non-Padme Costume:Leia's Bespin Dress
Jay
Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Villa Retreat - I love the etherial look of this costume, it's so effortless yet beautiful.
2. TPM Senate Gown - This was the first costume i saw (in the promo-shots) for the new films and fell in love with it instantly. It was so differnet and interesting.
3. Water Gown - This is not only the most beautiful costume in all the films (IMO), but it is symbolic and meaningful and ends Padme's story very well.

Least Favorite Padme Gowns:
1. Final Senate -It's just one big mess! Aspects of this costume could have been kept and developed into a much better costume (Maybe that's why the only shot in the film is her sitting, as so to hide it!).
2. Sleeveless Outfit - It's not that i don't like it, i just feel she could have been given something more elaborate and 'dressy'. When i saw the promo shot of this costum i thouht that there would be a scene similar to the Arena scene in Ep. II, but it's just her talking to Anakin.

Gown that's Grown on Me: Aqua Nightgown
Gown Everyone Likes But Me: Tatooine Blue
Favorite headdress/hairstyle: Escape from NabooFavorite Non-Padme Costume:Palpatine's Blood Red RobeExtra:The Star Wars Prequael Costumes are so amazing and beautiful, the fact Trisha was denied an Oscar is (IMO!) a crime. It is because of her work and the films themselves that my ambition is to become a Costume Designer :)

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