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Belvidere, cliff notes version
Sep. 12th, 2021 11:34 pmBelvidere Victorian Days was this weekend...or, rather, Day, singular. They of course didn't have it last year, and decided to put on a single-day, scaled down version for this year. Understandable, but a bit of a bummer for us, as Mick & Co. didn't want to set up their usual entire encampment (that takes several hours to put up and down) for one afternoon, and it meant there wasn't an opportunity for a nice catered dinner like we did a few years ago.
The day seems to have been a success, though (one of the organizers stopped by our group and thanked us for coming out and supporting their event and dressing so nicely for it), with plenty of vendors and attendees...so hopefully they'll go back to the full weekend next year, if at all possible! Jessica and I spent our breakfast hour this morning cheerfully planning a very optimistic wardrobe for next Belvidere!
It was just the two of us from the Usual Suspects (I think she and I are really the only ones left that plan to keep doing this costuming thing!), but Mick knows approximately a billion people from all the years he's been in the hobby, and there was a nice group of about ten other people hanging out at the "encampment" as well. They were very well dressed, lovely to talk to, and I forget almost all of their names.
We did the round of vendors - not too much that was thrilling to me, although I did pick up a few random pieces of costume jewelry from a vendor that had literally trays and trays of it! (Only three pieces, as they weren't that good a deal...a necklace of faceted black glass beads, an enamel rose pin, and a not-too-bad-and-still-probably-pretty-old fake cameo!) And a vendor selling bouquets and floral-y-type things came over with a box of her leftover unsold tussie-mussies and gave them to all the ladies of the group at the end of the day, which was very nice of her! They smelled lovely too...mint and rosemary and lavender and other herbs with baby's breath and rosebuds! I saved mine and brought it home in the plastic hotel cup and now it's sitting on my bedside table.
And I took zero pictures! Well, zero pictures of me. I took a picture of a chamber pot a vendor had for sale and sent it to Robin for yucks. But nothing of me! I wore the old beige dress and the old straw hat (which was dented a bit on one side from sitting on that side for...uh...years), so I didn't feel the need to bother.
Although I did end up having to wear the new Redthreaded corset rather than the blue spoon busk one, as apparently that one's started exploding its boning, which I found out when I tried it all on Friday afternoon (which is why I try it all on BEFORE the event!). Thankfully it all fit over the new corset as well, although not quite as well as over the corset it was intended to fit (shocker)! I have more hip in the spoon busk corset so there were a few extra wrinkles, but I doubt anyone would have noticed if I hadn't told them. I'd like to remake that corset before next year if I can, though; I really liked the shape it gave (okay, all the hip and bust padding lol).
Sewing this week will probably be limited to glaring at my pile of cut-out mask pieces and thinking about what I can wrangle for a November Regency event that's happening in Delaware in November!
The day seems to have been a success, though (one of the organizers stopped by our group and thanked us for coming out and supporting their event and dressing so nicely for it), with plenty of vendors and attendees...so hopefully they'll go back to the full weekend next year, if at all possible! Jessica and I spent our breakfast hour this morning cheerfully planning a very optimistic wardrobe for next Belvidere!
It was just the two of us from the Usual Suspects (I think she and I are really the only ones left that plan to keep doing this costuming thing!), but Mick knows approximately a billion people from all the years he's been in the hobby, and there was a nice group of about ten other people hanging out at the "encampment" as well. They were very well dressed, lovely to talk to, and I forget almost all of their names.
We did the round of vendors - not too much that was thrilling to me, although I did pick up a few random pieces of costume jewelry from a vendor that had literally trays and trays of it! (Only three pieces, as they weren't that good a deal...a necklace of faceted black glass beads, an enamel rose pin, and a not-too-bad-and-still-probably-pretty-old fake cameo!) And a vendor selling bouquets and floral-y-type things came over with a box of her leftover unsold tussie-mussies and gave them to all the ladies of the group at the end of the day, which was very nice of her! They smelled lovely too...mint and rosemary and lavender and other herbs with baby's breath and rosebuds! I saved mine and brought it home in the plastic hotel cup and now it's sitting on my bedside table.
And I took zero pictures! Well, zero pictures of me. I took a picture of a chamber pot a vendor had for sale and sent it to Robin for yucks. But nothing of me! I wore the old beige dress and the old straw hat (which was dented a bit on one side from sitting on that side for...uh...years), so I didn't feel the need to bother.
Although I did end up having to wear the new Redthreaded corset rather than the blue spoon busk one, as apparently that one's started exploding its boning, which I found out when I tried it all on Friday afternoon (which is why I try it all on BEFORE the event!). Thankfully it all fit over the new corset as well, although not quite as well as over the corset it was intended to fit (shocker)! I have more hip in the spoon busk corset so there were a few extra wrinkles, but I doubt anyone would have noticed if I hadn't told them. I'd like to remake that corset before next year if I can, though; I really liked the shape it gave (okay, all the hip and bust padding lol).
Sewing this week will probably be limited to glaring at my pile of cut-out mask pieces and thinking about what I can wrangle for a November Regency event that's happening in Delaware in November!
