It's a creamy satin sheath, embroidered with star-like flowers, with romantic deep bell sleeves and a huge, lozenge-shaped, 3.6-metre train.
The outer and most important of three kimonos worn under the hō is the white damask shitagasane, which has a back panel forming a 12-foot (3.7-metre) train.
The long-sleeved dress was made of ivory and white satin gazar and had a v-shaped neckline, a fitted waist, an almost 9-foot (2.7-metre) train, and a Victorian corset-style bodice a trademark McQueen design.
Other designers are already preparing to bring out copies of the dress, an ivory satin gown with a fitted bodice and three-metre train which was designed by Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen.
The dress was made of ivory silk and lace with long sleeves and sported a two-metre train.
Although not quite the eight-metre train that Princess Diana led down the aisle at St Pauls, the decision to have one has been applauded by fashion commentators.
Last year, the Shenzhen-based telecommunications giant Huawei opened an 8,000 square-metre training centre in Kinshasa.
In the women's one hundred metres, training partners Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh stretched, leaned, lurched, and lunged across the line at the exact moment.
Train lengths are limited to 1200 metres, except on the main interstate lines where 1500 metre long trains are permitted.
Authorities will still send in the army to investigate the site for the 100-metre-long train, following images in a forest near the Czech border.
Behind the slowly turning cutter head is a 148-metre-long train of hydraulic rams, control rooms, conveyors, piping and steel walkways, creating a tunnel and laying tracks while spewing out the London clay behind.
