I rewore my striped francaise that I'd only worn once before at the Costume Con where we mostly sat in that room on the 9th floor. I changed it up a little with vintage millinary dahlias on the stomacher and in my hair. And I used the wig I had styled in rolls and combed the front of my hair over the top. I think wigs work really well that way. I also used one of my fat sausage curls. I also wore my pale pink collet necklace and earrings from Taylor, and the pearl/flower bracelets I got in LA from that FIDM student store when I visited Loren a few years ago. I also had my first outing of my American Duchess embroidered mules. And Julia dyed some AD stockings pale green, so I wore those too.
Here are a few pics of my outfit:



I also brought along my Mary Russell muff, but it really wasn't practical to use indoors.

Kat:

Katy - she had a ship on her hair with blue feathers for water underneath it, which was pretty awesome:

Gloria:

Judy and Kat:

Taking pics outdoors:




Gloria and Mike's pic:

Leia, our birthday girl:


Judy:

Aubry:

One of the starters was a tray of these babies - fried bacon wrapped scallops. They were amazing.

Here we are trying to disguise the fact that we all have mouths stuffed with shrimp toast.

I think this was Kat's pic of me pretending to shop. Oh, I did really shop. But this was posed.

Jess - we used the same green trim on our gowns!

Amanda with Stephanie and her fiance behind her:

Alice and Robin:

Julia:

The back of Kat's hairdo:

Adrienne:

Rob, our fop:

Matching purple gowns and tall auburn hairdos!

We got a group shot downstairs. Here's our fop posing on the stairs:

Walking back upstairs after the group shot:

Hard fitting so many dresses on the stairs!


The menu:

Stephanie:

Gloria:


I had a period incorrect mojito:

The lobster bisque:

The filet with amazing pearl pasta with crabmeat and cheese:


Dessert.

Leia blowing out the candles on her cake:


And here's the crazy part! My mutant power is not winning raffles. I once when to a store opening where they had a ton of prizes, plus I bought extra tickets, and other people had won two or three times before I won once. I just never, ever win raffles. So I wasn't going to bother with this one. But then Judy said the proceeds were to help pay for an open bar for next year, so I bought some tickets and dumped them into the American Duchess $100 gift certificate container. AND I WON! I couldn't believe it. Maybe my raffle luck is changing. :-)

More stolen pix - here's Amanda with me and my tiara in the background:

This one caught Doug and I in the background:

The next morning after check out, Doug and I met Isabella, her mom, Stephanie and Matt at the Classic Diner (we ate there a couple times during Dress U) for breakfast. My enormous sandwich:

Here are a few more pics of me courtesy of Gloria and Mike:












So this is obviously in my general vicinity (eastern PA), so how do I not know these amazing things are going on? I hear about every least and little things going on on the west coast and in Europe!
ReplyDeleteThere is a mid-atlantic LJ community if you are on LJ!
DeleteYour dress is sublime, I love the stripped française and the matching stockings and shoes.
ReplyDeleteAll of you look gorgeous!
Aw, thank you! :-)
DeleteEveryone looks STUNNING!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Kendra!
DeleteThe dress is terrific and I bet you had a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteLet me say I love your shoes! *__*
Did you make them or you bought them?
Lisa
Thanks! I made the dress, the shoes are American Duchess.
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