"Why did I imagine myself in the same outfit? Oh ye gods, I'm so out of touch that I don't know what proper maternal wear is! Though, now that I think of it, would royalty wear proper maternal wear? We're so concerned with appearances that maybe we wouldn't allow ourselves to be seen in simple, comfortable dresses. What if I just imagined was true to what's expected?! That's dreadful! By golly, when I'm king or queen or whatever I wind up being, I'm going to decree the most comfortable of clothing be acceptable for all! And I'm going to buy SLIPPERS!"

- Similar thoughts from Cinderella herself

Incidentally, no, I did not write backwards from that visual. As is the norm with my writing style, I let a train of thought get going, recklessly jumped off, and kept an eye on it from a safe distance to see where it wound up crashing. Whatever wreckage resulted was fine so long as Elliot's feelings for Cinderella were expressed somewhere in the middle.