robinsnest | Who knew horizontal stripes could be so flattering?

YAY Belvidere!

So lots of other people have already posted about the marvelous time we had at Belvidere! I met up with lots of people, met lots of new friends! Saw lots of beautiful clothing and wished I had millions of dollars to buy antique jewelry.

My favorite annecdote was when this very odd lady walks into the tent on a cell phone. Talking LOUDLY, describing us as if we weren't actually capable of hearing her "And this One she's got the cutest little hat! it's like a little tall hat"

madamkat , "it's a mini top hat" Lady "And her dress has stripes, horizontal purple stripes!" Please observe just how marvelous she looked in her purple stripes

I had no idea how flattering horizontal stripes could be! But then she does have such a lovely figure to begin with. (P.S. my favorite part is totally those tassels, they just peak out and say "hello I'm fabulous!")

We had a tintype taken of the group again and I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy of it! I think I'll frame this one again and start a little grouping of them on the wall.

My dress turned out okay in the end. I still have an evil wrinkle across the top and I need to reset my sleeves, add cuffs and move some stuff around. But all in all not to shabby. I got lots of compliments on my "tweedy" look, and apparently I have a good enough hair piece that people believe it's' really my hair. Who knew!

First we have a few shots of our awesome games of croquet on the worlds largest croquet pitch (if we hadn't cheated a wee bit we'd never have finished before dark