the oxford dark masquerade

[mlsdesigns]

whew! what an evening! LOADS of photos to show you, the blue anglaise made a wonderful angel costume, once clare had made me some fabulous wings that is, and i came up with another way of wearing a mask with glasses (last years mask on a stick was annoying to carry all evening)
so....
here we have the very beginning!

i didn't manage to finish my stays cos i ran out of tape, i bought all they had! but the back is finished

this is the first time i'd worn it, and the lace wasn't long enough, so mummy lent me her shoe lace! it was much too tight at the top, (i found out later!) so i think once the gap is the same all the way down it should be great. i took 2" out of the pattern for the pink ones so it shouldn't have closed!

i curled my hair and clare pinned it up all deshabille, the mask is a peice of lace with a ribbon tie, beaded all over, and beads all over the 'hem' of the lace to make it hang nicely. i added ribbons to the side the ties do up on, and pinned 2 ostrich plumes to my head.


isn't clare amazingly clever? her wings are even more amazing, but i didn't manage to get a really good shot. but doesn't she make a really good fop?

cass looked really good as a highwayman

she's wearing the outfit i made for school, pluss a sash, hat, mask and most importantly pistol and sword! (and a sneaky hip flask!)
oh, and i forgot to tell you about our guests to the ball, for the last 2 years i haver been not making a pair of 18th century badgers, dressed for a masked ball, i remembered them in time to take to scotland to finish!

mummy took a lovely picture of us descending the stairs

towards the end i was getting rather hot an my chest hurt, so clare undid me and loosened me a bit

even in my undies i was more covered than most people there!
the climax of the entertainment was 3 stilt walking angels and an escapologist!

and a better pic of the hair, at the end of the night and having yanked the mask and feathers off in the ballroom

gosh, what a lot of pics, i expect there will be more later, when people have posted more, and Dylan the official photographer took some lovely ones.
had a great time, can't wait for next year!!!

Comments

[koshka-the-cat.livejournal.com]

It looks like so much fun. You (and the badgers!) look great :)

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

thank you! and it was great fun, goths maybe weird, but they're s nice crowd.

[girliegirl32786.livejournal.com]

You look lovely and look like you had so much fun! I really like your new stays. :)

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

thank you, as soon as i get more tape i'll take proper photos of my stays, i'm so proud of them, i've never entirely hand made anything before.

[jennylafleur.livejournal.com]

Oh the badgers are so cute! I adore your hair, so pretty! I must remember that "do" for future reference. Oh and I am totally going to steal the lace off your shift - so yummy!

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

thank you, i don't think i would be able to do the hair myself, but that's what sisters are for!!! and i'll take some better pics of the badgers later, only trouble is i really like madame's dress, hmmm, future project for me do you think?!

[margaret-hale.livejournal.com]

Hey its me, Bex! Your pics are great! The dress is lovely and your hair looks really nice too.Looks like you had a good time!

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

hello! thank you! what're you up to?

[margaret-hale.livejournal.com]

not up to much though i went to edinburgh last week for a long weekend and that was great! thanx for the email by the way. did you go to the bear convention? your little bears in the pics were cute. we will have to meet up in London again. me and beth said we want to see the kylie exhibition at the v&a. hey, have you seen theres gonna be a jane austen season on itv this month?

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

the kylie exhibition sounds good :) and the JA season looks great!! but i don't think i'll be doing much in the near future, roly has been diagnosed with kidney disease.

[mspurplepearl.livejournal.com]

Wandered over from your comment on my dressdiaries page.

What wonderful matching outfits! Your stays are terrific, I hope that you do post a "final" picture with all of the tape on.

~pearl

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

thank you! i will post pics when they're done, they're at the top of my list now, after a dress i need to make for a wedding i'm going to on saturday :)