Please vote on the dress Liberty will wear on the book cover!

Love the blue tea dress. What an awesome journey you are on, Jocelyn.

The coral day dress is proper and perfect.

I like the blue tea dress!

I love the Green with velvet trim as well as the brown plaid!! Those are so unique!

I like the pink/purple with the v-shaped waist. :) Blessings, Jodie Wolfe

Oh, the blue tea dress! They're all lovely.

The coral day dress. Not MY favorite, but looks like something she might wear.

The blue tea dress would suit a woman with blue eyes and the style is quite nice. All the dresses are lovely, especially the green which is my favorite.

Since she's a young farm girl with limited income, I believe the Coral day dress looks most realistic while still being pretty. My 2nd choice the upper-right one, since it's pretty without looking too extravagant for a farm girl, who might well wear homemade dresses.

First of all, she's widow, right? Or does that happen in the book? As a widow she'd be confined to a plain black dress, right? Easy on the hoops, right? None of the dresses reflect what a farm girl would wear on a daily basis, but the top row far right dress (is it blue?) is the most likely candidate for a dress she might wear to church... her good dress. Farm people were very, very plain even in that era. Think almost Amish. If she were a town girl, then maybe one of the others.

I am going for the Blue tea dress. It looks very pretty !!!

Brown plaid. I think I would look nice with her eyes, and it looks practical for a farm girl.

Blue tea dress!!

Green with velvet trim. Lovely.

I vote the Blue Tea Dress... if she can't wear it, can I?

Choice #1: Coral day dress Choice #2: Green plaid. The coral day dress is spot-on for where she's from. The green plaid would probably be the fanciest dress she owned. The blue tea dress is actually ten years old by 1864 and very out of style. It would have been the height of fashion in mid-1854. Coincidentally, my sister's 1854 repro dress looks exactly like this one. Same fabric and everything. This particular picture you've posted is a reproduction and wouldn't surprise me if it's from the same seamstress in California who made my sister's dress.

Those are some fancy dresses for a farm girl. If I had to choose I would say the pink and white, I think. The last on the third row, maybe it's purple. Anyway it's the one with the V-shaped waistline. I really like the blue tea dress, but it looks too fancy for a farm girl who probably sewed her own clothes. ;)

I vote for Coral day dress. It seems to "fit" in my mind.

I vote for the blue stripe dress. The coral day dress works, but I don't think that would be the best color for her if they match her hair and eyes to what you describe. Of course, I've certainly read books where the girl on the cover doesn't match the description in the book, to my frustration! :-)

As soon as I saw the blue tea dress, I was ruined for all the rest!

I like the coral day dress' style but maybe have it in a blue color to bring out her eyes? 2nd choice is the green with the velvet trim but I think it is too fancy as some of the other gals have said.

I am glad many people like the blue tea dress, that's my favorite. This blue looks like Navy blue which is a traditional American color. The print isn't too elaborate either. The fabric doesn't look as shiny as some of the others which doesn't make it foo fancy. It is a nice dress for a farm girl but not over the top.

I vote for the purple dress. Go Panthers! :0) (I'm sure she would be a Panther fan today, right?) I like the blue tea dress style best, but Charlotte wore blue on her cover and I think a different color would be best for our widow. Also, the blue dress reads more formal to me....more Charleston. I also like the coral day dress very much.

I totally love the purple with the V-neck and the green checkered one. (I would love to wear either one, myself!) Dress choice probably depends on whether you want to depict her as she would look day to day, or when she is dressed for church. Green would be very striking with her black hair. Too bad the tea dress is outdated, I am sure blue would really help her eyes stand out, too. I also have to say the brown is very unique and pretty but does not strike me as what a widow on a farm would wear, even to church. One last thought- could the Coral Day dress be altered to be blue instead? The cover photo for Roger's book was edited, so that's why I wonder.

Blue tea dress

Hi, just casting my vote here, (I love Civil War romance, by the way) I "love" the blue tea dress, with the brown plaid coming in second. Hope that helps.

BLUE STRIPES - LOVE that!

The blue tea dress is my favorite, but I think the brown plaid would be more appropriate for a farm girl.

Blue tea dress :)

My favorite is the blue tea dress. I think the purple would be my next choice, mainly for the style. Simple but very pretty for a young widow who has just stopped wearing the black mourning dresses. Would look lovely with her black hair and blue eyes.

Oh, they are all so beautiful! But my vote goes for the cream-colored one (third from the left in the top row), but any of them would work, really! :)

I like the coral dress.

Blue tea dress! I think it's the most dramatic.

I like the coral day dress!

the green plaid is my favorite. I love green :) But my daughter is with the majority on the blue tea dress. It's a war between mother and daughter here. ;)

I just noticed this. The pink and white one with the fanned bodice and the three ruffles at the midpoint of the skirt is also too early. This style was gone by the end of 1855 in the fashion plates. It's called a fan-front bodice and was replaced by the T-bodice, which is basically what's on the blue and white tea dress. The fan front also gives the least amount of arm movement, though it is beautiful. The T-bodice is a lot more forgiving for a working woman.

I vote for the coral day dress, somehow just seems to fit.

Definitely the Blue stripe. The flowers would be considered feminine and somewhat frivolous for a farm girl but it has the simplicity of style that would have been more in line with the need for movement and activity that might be needed.

i think u should choose the green with velvet trim dress

#1 Green the style just seems more of what you'd see during this time. Although I don't think it would be her work dress. #2 Purple LOL. Just because I like it.

Saw your invite on the historical writers' loop to have a look and I was so intrigued. After much indecisiveness and loving them all, I've decided that if I were putting my mourning behind me and wanting to move on, I'd not want to go too flashy, and yet my heart would cry out for something a bit bright. I'd go with the green & velvet. And even though I think the blue tea dress would match her eyes and hair, I think the green would do to set them off as well, without her meaning to. Loved Wedded to War, btw. Blessings~

Blue tea dress!

I live the purple dress. Not only the color, but the form fitting style. My second choice is the Blue-striped dress if it was more form fitting.