Red Queen

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Red has just told me that she wants to be the Queen of Hearts, from the new Alice in Wonderland, for Halloween. 
I'm contemplating the needed layers, and compiling a list of items to include to get the look right. She's already sort of tube-shaped anyway, so corsetry to get an Elizabethan shape won't be an issue (though if she needs one just as a foundation layer, she can still wear the bodice we made her as a pirate a couple of years ago. Yay front-and-back lacing!) I'm trying to figure out if she'd be better served with a Spanish farthingale and bum roll or just a couple of crinoline petticoats. I'll make the skirt ankle-length, rather than to the floor, so she doesn't trip. The stand-up collar might be a little tricky, but I have a commercial pattern that uses a detachable one like it; I'll see what I can salvage from that. I want the general look to be good, but I don't want to set myself up with an unmanageable task, and I don't want to saddle her with an outfit that will be too hot or uncomfortable to enjoy wearing. If it's cold, she can wear the long-sleeve shift she's already got as another layer under it all.

Edit to add:
Here's my guess for components for the gown - 

• either no shift, or one that's fairly low-cut so the neckline of it doesn't show
• partlet with a white fabric underlayer, forming a stiffened, projecting collar, and a sheer black fabric overlayer, arranged in vertical pintucks. The partlet is very narrowly open to about or just below the bustline, where it meets the gown
• the gown bodice is probably black velveteen, with a stomacher of gold cloth with thin vertical lines, and lots of beadwork across the top. The upper puff sleeves are black fabric, with red straps with spaced black beads The lower sleeves look like they might be the same gold cloth, with a black net layer and then red ribbon bands (same as the upper sleeves), but I can't be sure from the photos I found. There's a soft white lace ruff at the cuff.
• the gown skirt forepart is red, with black and gold hearts
• the gown skirt is a sort of gold brocade fabric
• the underpinnings for the skirt are somewhat in question - the photos of the actress wearing it (with the green screen in the background) would suggest just some full petticoats under it. There's a photo of the dress on exhibit, and it clearly has a hoop skirt and bum roll under it, along with some sort of additional stuffing / support filling out the puff upper sleeves. I'm inclined to give the sleeves some extra omph, but the skirt question will probably mostly depend on what would be the most comfortable for her to wear. Halloween in Texas is warm, and if she's going to also be able to wear this thing to Renfest, it needs to not give her heat stroke or make her break her neck. If anyone has advice on this front, I'd love to hear it.
• the back - I couldn't find any photos online of the back of the costume, and I don't have the movie handy, so I can't check to see if it was even onscreen. I'm inclined to make the skirt and bodice separately, and have the bodice lace up in the back. 
• If the outfit can be made to look good while still drifting closer to historical accuracy, that would be cool, but mostly it just needs to be manageable to make and to wear, and look spiffy.

Unrelated side rant - why does every costume search have to turn up a nasty, cheap-looking "sexy" version of whatever the costume is, which just means showing lots of cleavage and turning the skirt into a French Maid outfit? Falling out of one's outfit is occasionally the point, but all I want is some photos to use when costuming a five-year-old. Grrr...