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sewloud ([personal profile] robinsnest) wrote2010-09-12 09:20 pm
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Ooo I totally forgot

So I completely forgot but there's this dress I've always wanted to reproduce. It's a portrait of Lucy Webb Hayes commissioned while she was first lady by the Women's Christian Temperance Union, because of her ban of alcohol at white house functions. I know her husband wasn't the greatest of american presidents. But a. I think I kind of look like her b. I totally love the gown and c. As a teatotaller myself I enjoy the irony. and it is also burgundy velvet. 1881 is earlier than I had intended to go, but It's awfully pretty and Christmas like. (apologies on the terrible image, I had a devil of a time finding one that wasn't thumnail size)

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[identity profile] kass-rants.livejournal.com 2010-09-13 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
It is lovely and you would look wonderful in that colour!

[identity profile] blackcat452.livejournal.com 2010-09-13 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
I agree, that would be so lovely on you. You're making me want Victorian winter wear too.

[identity profile] madamekat.livejournal.com 2010-09-13 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, this is really beautiful!!

[identity profile] sstormwatch.livejournal.com 2010-09-13 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
That would be lovely to do.
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