Picnic in the Park ~ Victorian Style with Gail Carriger

This last weekend I joined the local historical dance reenactment group for a picnic in the park, floofy skirt style.

Self in a mainly thrifted outfit: 

• black straw sun hat from Goodwill (dampened and bent inside an icebox in the sun, decorated - using hot glue gun - with ribbons and fake roses flowers from a church rummage sale)
• earrings and cameo both thrifted from this amazing tiny store I found in Ohio in college, still miss it
• velvet cape is the top portion of a coat (bottom of which was stained and didn't fit) 
• shirt 1970 boxy cut thrifted on Height Street, tailored in to corseted figure, blue ribbon threaded through
• skirt (gored) made from thrifted stain resistant king size bedsheets, bed ruffle attached at bottom, blue ribbon sew on
• blue ribbon found on super sale at a quilt shop, I bought everything they had in that color on the theory that I would use it to pull the whole outfit together.
• parasol new but added blue ribbon to match dress 
• corset underneath is a Dark Garden custom sweetheart vic
• hoopskirt is modern crinoline (for a wedding dress I suppose) with added tablecloth padding
• underskirt made from 1980s wrap skirt with more dust ruffle edging
• bloomers made from a thrifted pair of pants with new elastic and lace edging

1850 Damisk The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1850 Flower The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1850 grahamsday

1850 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1850-1855  The Philadelphia Museum of Art

1890s  Christie’s

Hope you all had a delicious tea-filled weekend too!

~ Miss G

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