Victorian Christmas Tea 2019

Back to costumes! We’re finally at the Christmas season! (And it’s only May of the next year! Progress!)

These photos are from Caroline’s Victorian Christmas tea. I love her parties! Victorian is a huge hole in my wardrobe, so I rewore my 1840s plaid gown, but that’s ok because I like this dress. (I have since bought a couple Victorian gowns on a FB buy/sell group so I’m hoping to mix it up more in the future. Just don’t have much sewing time right now.)

Anyhoo, it was a fun party, here are photos!

(Mike and Gloria of In the Long Run Designs were experimenting with a new lens and I was happy with how these turned out. I also asked them to try and get a shot of my antique Victorian star comb. My earrings and necklaces are classic Dames a la Mode.

Victoria Day Party

Caroline held a Victoria Day party in May at her lovely Capitol Hill house. I was a bit late to it and as always I haven’t had sewing time and my Victorian wardrobe is not as deep as my 18th century one is. But I threw on my plaid 1840s and a tiara. I didn’t have time for fancy hair and make-up so I don’t have a ton of pics of me, but everyone else looked awesome. :-) Also, we had sparklers! And two cute kids, a boy and a girl, were riding bikes in laps around the block over and over again. And IIRC, the girl had a supergirl shirt? Anyway, every time they went through our sparklers, we cheered for supergirl. It was a really fun night (Caroline throws a great party!) and I’m glad I was able to go, even if my Victorian costume game is somewhat weak. :-)

Here’s Chelsea in her “Hufflebustle.”



With Jess:



And possibly my fav pic from the night. Taylor’s expression in the back is the best.



Food!

Victorian Christmas Tea

Who’s in the mood for Christmas? Yeah. I’m still super behind on blogging anything.

BUT I did get to go to a superfun Victorian Christmas tea, hosted by the lovely Carolyn, in the gorgeous Capitol Hill row house that her and her husband are staying in while on assignment in DC. It’s the perfect place for costume parties! The food was also delicious.

I don’t have a ton of Victorian outfits - BUT I had only worn this plaid 1840s gown once or twice very briefly. AND since then, I had gotten real 1840s repro boots, courtesy of American Duchess, but never really had the opportunity to wear them. So I was actually pretty excited to wear them with the outfit I intended to. They were really comfy and I loved how they looked with this long-sleeved dress.















I also wore Dames a la Mode earrings (https://www.etsy.com/shop/damesalamode), an antique necklace and brooch and bracelet and rings.

Dress U, part 2

More pics!
 
 

Poe 2010

It was just Amanda and I in 2010, but we still had fun!

I even had a new dress!

I liked how my hair came out. On one side, anyway!

Plaid 1840s gown

I wore my black 1840s gown so much I felt like I needed something new.  So once again, I found the perfect fabric from L - some plaid silk taffeta.

Here is the web page for my costume construction details and more photos:
http://costumersguide.com/maggie_costumes/poe3.html