Fort Mott Boer War Event
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mandie_rwSecond Boer War, to be specific.
(The Facebook event just said "Boer War", mind you, with no dates. Apparently this is colloquial for the second war...but as 1/ we didn't know this til yesterday as that's when the park put up the event description, and 2/ none of us have c.1900 summer dresses anyway...we cheerfully assumed it was the first war in the early 1880s, as that's what we have clothes for. As assumed...nobody cared. *grin*)
It's always more fun when we know people at an event, which we did today; I'm always perfectly happy to gate-crash events and sit around in our little group by ourselves, but being able to sit in proper chairs under a tent fly and have a G&T is even nicer!
Weather report: Pretty hot (I sweat right through my corset in places, ew) but not unbearable. The forecast was for "cloudy", which would have been more appreciated; the sun was pretty hot there for a while! Glad I did bring my wildly-inappropriate Battenberg lace parasol, for when we were up on top of the embankment, watching the "battle." ("Who wins?" "I dunno, I know nothing about any Boer Wars.") Otherwise we were mostly in the shade under the fly.
Nobody wore anything new, of course (and we've all agreed that wearing the same dresses for 1880 is starting to get just a tiny bit boring), but Robin did add more trim to her underskirt, looped it up, and made the intended overskirt, so at least there was a point made to get photos of that. And it looks very pretty! And she's going to do a post about it soon! ;)
Apparently we're useless at getting a picture with all 4 of us, but I know some were taken, so if/when they're posted to the Fort Mott page I'll yoink them and post here!
ETA: here we go!
I'd like to promise I'm going to finish the bodice and take pictures of it this week...but if it's 90+, which it's supposed to be, I probably won't feel like it. Once it's not so hot!
Robin's flickr album here
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(The Facebook event just said "Boer War", mind you, with no dates. Apparently this is colloquial for the second war...but as 1/ we didn't know this til yesterday as that's when the park put up the event description, and 2/ none of us have c.1900 summer dresses anyway...we cheerfully assumed it was the first war in the early 1880s, as that's what we have clothes for. As assumed...nobody cared. *grin*)
It's always more fun when we know people at an event, which we did today; I'm always perfectly happy to gate-crash events and sit around in our little group by ourselves, but being able to sit in proper chairs under a tent fly and have a G&T is even nicer!
Weather report: Pretty hot (I sweat right through my corset in places, ew) but not unbearable. The forecast was for "cloudy", which would have been more appreciated; the sun was pretty hot there for a while! Glad I did bring my wildly-inappropriate Battenberg lace parasol, for when we were up on top of the embankment, watching the "battle." ("Who wins?" "I dunno, I know nothing about any Boer Wars.") Otherwise we were mostly in the shade under the fly.
Nobody wore anything new, of course (and we've all agreed that wearing the same dresses for 1880 is starting to get just a tiny bit boring), but Robin did add more trim to her underskirt, looped it up, and made the intended overskirt, so at least there was a point made to get photos of that. And it looks very pretty! And she's going to do a post about it soon! ;)
Apparently we're useless at getting a picture with all 4 of us, but I know some were taken, so if/when they're posted to the Fort Mott page I'll yoink them and post here!
ETA: here we go!
I'd like to promise I'm going to finish the bodice and take pictures of it this week...but if it's 90+, which it's supposed to be, I probably won't feel like it. Once it's not so hot!
Robin's flickr album here
Save
