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Such beautiful, beautiful dresses…

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I’m doing some wedding commissions, so I’m in full bridal wear mode.  There are some beautiful dresses out there right now (all ridiculously expensive of course!) It’s so deliciously goddess-y!  And I love the contrast belt.  It would be wonderfully flattering on my body shape. I’m trying to imagine who could get away with this, and am totally failing, but I still love the drama of it.  And the fabric! I’ve never had the back to pull this off, but I love EVERYTHING else about this dress.  And the models hair.  My hair would do that after a couple of hours and a couple hundred dollars at the hairdressers. Frothy fairy frocks.  Happiness.

Kimono silks, fripperies and royal gossip

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I’ve bought some rather pretty pogey bait at op shops in the last few weeks. First, a fabulous necklace: It’s a little more fantasy than historical, but in a pinch it could do late Victorian (at least based on my Sears and Roebucks from the 1890s). And it’s just a lovely piece all on its own, with fairly quality workmanship. The fabric it is resting on is a roll of unused vintage kimono crepe.  Like so many kimono out there, it has the paulownia mon. I had a bit of a blowout on vintage kimono silks actually. In addition to the pink I got this beautiful crepe with mysterious white on white patterning. Its a whole roll (an entire kimono), unmade up, so the pattern disappears and reappears along the roll, and includes bits of design that make no apparent sense at the moment, but will when they are matched with the right corresponding bits. I’m looking forward to placing a kimono pattern over it, and figuring out how the designs would fit together. And …