Some rediculously late photos!
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mlsdesignsIt seems like all I ever do is apologise for never posting! This time it's because we went to Paris for a week just before Christmas, coming home the day before Christmas Eve just in time for me to get really really sick! I've either got a cold or flu, and it's only been in the last day or so that I've actually felt relatively human again!
Any way, in an effort to put off starting on the new year's very VERY long to-do-list I bring you photos I should have posted months ago, this time from the ball Mummy and I went to in Hampshire. In sorting out photos to post I've realised why I'm such a slacker when it comes to posting event photos - it's because I never seem to manage to get decent enough photos to share! I think that will be my New Year's Resolution, to try to take decent photos and actually POST THEM!!
So,
Mummy and I both had new ball gowns for this ball, both made from saris :) I don't think I'll ever make a Regency ball gown from anything else, there are so many gorgeous saris out there, and they work so SO well!
Mummy's frock has silver and brown sequins all over it, and she sparkled unbelievably in the ballroom! Yet it was so cheap! because there was a fault in the embroidery of the blouse piece (which I wasn't going to use anyway) they reduced it from £30 to £20!
The blouse piece on mine however was perfect, I was able to use the embroidery fro the back of the blouse to make the front of my bodice, and the sleeves worked perfectly for the long straight sleeves, and of course, I had to use such a beautiful pelu for a train!
Also, in the back ground you might notice something that gives you a hint what my favourite Christmas present is ;) Needless to say I'm totally useless at it, but I'm getting better, and I'm beginning to learn to read music at long last.
The ball is held in an old school, and we all stay over night, so the next day Mummy and I got to try out our new morning half robes :)
You might recognise mummy's fabric - it's the left over parts of the duvet set I used for one of my UTR frocks!
Mine is the left overs from one of Clare's bustle dresses, trimmed with scraps of prussian blue silk from my first Regency frock.
The day after a ball the organisers arrange a trip to a National Trust place, and this year it was very near to where our cousins live, and since they like to dress up too (having been to one of our balls, joined us for a day in Wales for the Victorian festival, and joined us when we went to Portsmouth a couple of Christmases ago) I leant them some clothes and they came too!
Mummy was very pleased with her new pelise. I made it a bit like the riding habit in PofF, a seperate skirt and jacket, but the skirt is mounted on a full bodice, made of wool lined with silk like the rest of the pelise, but with a wool wadding interlining. The jacket part isn't interlined, so if it's cold she wears the pelise, if it's warm she wears the jacket as a spencer. I wish I had better photos, you probably can't see, but it has lovely gold buttons and a waistband and high turn down collar. She was especially please that it went so well with my muff and tippet ;)
My new pelise is dark purple wool lined with black silk taffeta, except the sleeves which are lined in black and white gingham-check silk taffeta because I ran out of black ;) The collar is a black mink collar from a vintage fur coat, I used the rest of the coat to make my muff, lined with red, green gold and black plaid silk taffeta left over from mummy's 1860s ball gown.
My hat, in the military style, is purple cotton velvet with black silk taffeta brim and trimmings, black cords and tassels and black cocque feathers.
I still have photos of my new bustle dress from the Cotillion ball, and our outfits from the Russian Dance Demo, but once I've posted them, I think I'm up to date! There's only one costume I've made this year that I don't have any photos of, Mummy's 18thC kit, I made her a shift and stays and a bedgown, she wore them with some of my petticoats the day after our dance group's Regency ball (no photos, because we both wore the dresses from Hampshire) when we had a house full of guests so had an afternoon card party, and she looked lovely, but I don't have any photos :(
Any way, in an effort to put off starting on the new year's very VERY long to-do-list I bring you photos I should have posted months ago, this time from the ball Mummy and I went to in Hampshire. In sorting out photos to post I've realised why I'm such a slacker when it comes to posting event photos - it's because I never seem to manage to get decent enough photos to share! I think that will be my New Year's Resolution, to try to take decent photos and actually POST THEM!!
So,
Mummy and I both had new ball gowns for this ball, both made from saris :) I don't think I'll ever make a Regency ball gown from anything else, there are so many gorgeous saris out there, and they work so SO well!
Mummy's frock has silver and brown sequins all over it, and she sparkled unbelievably in the ballroom! Yet it was so cheap! because there was a fault in the embroidery of the blouse piece (which I wasn't going to use anyway) they reduced it from £30 to £20!
The blouse piece on mine however was perfect, I was able to use the embroidery fro the back of the blouse to make the front of my bodice, and the sleeves worked perfectly for the long straight sleeves, and of course, I had to use such a beautiful pelu for a train!
Also, in the back ground you might notice something that gives you a hint what my favourite Christmas present is ;) Needless to say I'm totally useless at it, but I'm getting better, and I'm beginning to learn to read music at long last.
The ball is held in an old school, and we all stay over night, so the next day Mummy and I got to try out our new morning half robes :)
You might recognise mummy's fabric - it's the left over parts of the duvet set I used for one of my UTR frocks!
Mine is the left overs from one of Clare's bustle dresses, trimmed with scraps of prussian blue silk from my first Regency frock.
The day after a ball the organisers arrange a trip to a National Trust place, and this year it was very near to where our cousins live, and since they like to dress up too (having been to one of our balls, joined us for a day in Wales for the Victorian festival, and joined us when we went to Portsmouth a couple of Christmases ago) I leant them some clothes and they came too!
Mummy was very pleased with her new pelise. I made it a bit like the riding habit in PofF, a seperate skirt and jacket, but the skirt is mounted on a full bodice, made of wool lined with silk like the rest of the pelise, but with a wool wadding interlining. The jacket part isn't interlined, so if it's cold she wears the pelise, if it's warm she wears the jacket as a spencer. I wish I had better photos, you probably can't see, but it has lovely gold buttons and a waistband and high turn down collar. She was especially please that it went so well with my muff and tippet ;)
My new pelise is dark purple wool lined with black silk taffeta, except the sleeves which are lined in black and white gingham-check silk taffeta because I ran out of black ;) The collar is a black mink collar from a vintage fur coat, I used the rest of the coat to make my muff, lined with red, green gold and black plaid silk taffeta left over from mummy's 1860s ball gown.
My hat, in the military style, is purple cotton velvet with black silk taffeta brim and trimmings, black cords and tassels and black cocque feathers.
I still have photos of my new bustle dress from the Cotillion ball, and our outfits from the Russian Dance Demo, but once I've posted them, I think I'm up to date! There's only one costume I've made this year that I don't have any photos of, Mummy's 18thC kit, I made her a shift and stays and a bedgown, she wore them with some of my petticoats the day after our dance group's Regency ball (no photos, because we both wore the dresses from Hampshire) when we had a house full of guests so had an afternoon card party, and she looked lovely, but I don't have any photos :(
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Date: 2011-12-30 02:57 pm (UTC)Thank you so much for sharing!
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Date: 2011-12-30 05:07 pm (UTC)Sabine
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Date: 2011-12-30 05:29 pm (UTC)It's always fun to see your posts - and the settings for those events you attend are so wonderful.
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Date: 2011-12-31 12:00 am (UTC)So many pretty things... I like all of them! I think I need to have your mom's green gown.
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Date: 2011-12-31 07:14 am (UTC)I could seriously WEEP over those gorgeous ballgowns. WHERE do you find such amazing saris?! You look so perfect! I can't even...wow. Just, wow.
You, ma'am, are lucky we are nowhere near the same size. Or you would find that ballgown missing someday. Somehow. I would manage it. Some. how. ;)
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Date: 2011-12-31 12:04 pm (UTC)For me, finding saris is easier than finding regular fabric! I live near Leicester, the town with the highest Indian population in the country, so even in my little local town there are 2 sari shops, not to mention the saris for sale in the charity shops! and if I go into Leicester there is one very long street selling nothing but Indian clothes and jewellery, there must be 30 odd sari shops alone.
Yet, if I want silk taffeta, or nice white cotton for undies, or heaven forbid, decent quilters cotton, I have to go on-line ... usually to the states! Wanna trade? ;)
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Date: 2011-12-31 06:06 pm (UTC)My harp is nothing like so big and grand as hers, it's only a little lap harp, but I love it and I can already play Mozart on it! (al-right, so it's only Twinkle twinkle, little star, but still, it IS Mozart!) Hopefully by the time you come I'll be slightly better at it!
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Date: 2011-12-31 07:22 pm (UTC)You can give us a concert! I'm always impressed by someone who can play a musical instrument. I've never learned.
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