Photos from Bath this time!
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mlsdesignsAs promised here we have some photos from the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, it's still going on now actually, but we only went for the first weekend.
Just setting out for the Grand Parade. They did break the world record for the biggest number of people gathered together in Regency dress, by about 200!! There were 500 odd people in the Assembly Rooms where they organised the attempt.
The bring on Clare's hat is from a red straw hat Mummy had when she was little, it had been bleached by the sun to the perfect shade of orange, but only on the outside, so the under side of the brim is still red, hence the pleated lining :) Eventually it'll have a couple of orangy flowers on the hat band at the centre front.
I was originally making a pelise, but I decided looking back at the photos I took during fittings I liked it better as a spencer, so I unpicked the waist seam (before I'd done any finishing) and finished it off as a spencer! I may decide to put the 'skirt' on a little bodice, (like the one on the riding habbit in Patterns of Fashion) so I can wear either a spencer or what looks like a pelise, depending on the weather. Or it may become a dress, maybe 1830s? I have rather a lot left ;)
A bit of a Marrianne-ish hat :) Clare had the dress, I had the hat :D I died the feathers with tea, they turned out really well!
We treated ourselves to tea in the Pump Rooms, such a perfect setting!
Trudging down Lansdown Road after breakfats the next day, we went for a talk about Regency breakfasts, and had a lovely meal to finish off with, but we had to get all the way up to the top of Camden Crescent, right at the top of the hill!
We were staying at 3 Abbey Green, a very swish B&B, but such a perfect place to spend the weekend dressed in Regency clothing! We were right in the centre of things, and it felt so wonderful! Our room is the left hand window on the first floor (second for the Americans)
The window made a perfect place to take photos!
Clare's front hair is still in the curls from the day before! I was really pleased with how it turned out, I was aiming for something like Marrianne from the Emma Thomson version, but I twisted her hair back the way Elinor has hers sometimes, it looked so lovely and natural.
I didn't get any photos from the first evening when we went to the theatre because we were so busy chatting! I met some friends from college who I haven't seen in 4 years, quite by accident! And I was so busy watching the amazing dancing at the Baroque dance display we went to the second night I forgot to take any photos! I definitely want to go next year! And when I win the lottery I will be buying a holiday home in Bath!
Just setting out for the Grand Parade. They did break the world record for the biggest number of people gathered together in Regency dress, by about 200!! There were 500 odd people in the Assembly Rooms where they organised the attempt.
The bring on Clare's hat is from a red straw hat Mummy had when she was little, it had been bleached by the sun to the perfect shade of orange, but only on the outside, so the under side of the brim is still red, hence the pleated lining :) Eventually it'll have a couple of orangy flowers on the hat band at the centre front.
I was originally making a pelise, but I decided looking back at the photos I took during fittings I liked it better as a spencer, so I unpicked the waist seam (before I'd done any finishing) and finished it off as a spencer! I may decide to put the 'skirt' on a little bodice, (like the one on the riding habbit in Patterns of Fashion) so I can wear either a spencer or what looks like a pelise, depending on the weather. Or it may become a dress, maybe 1830s? I have rather a lot left ;)
A bit of a Marrianne-ish hat :) Clare had the dress, I had the hat :D I died the feathers with tea, they turned out really well!
We treated ourselves to tea in the Pump Rooms, such a perfect setting!
Trudging down Lansdown Road after breakfats the next day, we went for a talk about Regency breakfasts, and had a lovely meal to finish off with, but we had to get all the way up to the top of Camden Crescent, right at the top of the hill!
We were staying at 3 Abbey Green, a very swish B&B, but such a perfect place to spend the weekend dressed in Regency clothing! We were right in the centre of things, and it felt so wonderful! Our room is the left hand window on the first floor (second for the Americans)
The window made a perfect place to take photos!
Clare's front hair is still in the curls from the day before! I was really pleased with how it turned out, I was aiming for something like Marrianne from the Emma Thomson version, but I twisted her hair back the way Elinor has hers sometimes, it looked so lovely and natural.
I didn't get any photos from the first evening when we went to the theatre because we were so busy chatting! I met some friends from college who I haven't seen in 4 years, quite by accident! And I was so busy watching the amazing dancing at the Baroque dance display we went to the second night I forgot to take any photos! I definitely want to go next year! And when I win the lottery I will be buying a holiday home in Bath!
