Photos!  Pretty, pretty photos from my talk at the Museum of Wellington City & Sea! And lots of them!  (well, of course.  This is me we’re talking about!) And then, down at the bottom, some unexpectedly serious musing.  (well, of course.  This is me we’re talking about!) The talk covered the immediate before-the-war fashions, and the effect of WWI on fashions during and after the war. Usually I use my own models, but this time MWCS arranged all the models – a group of gorgeous girls (and by gorgeous I mean ‘interesting and lovely people’ not ‘look like a magazine model’) from a local college (that’s a high school in the US) or WelTec (a college in the American sense) and museum staff and friends for the men.  I  missed my usual models because they are so fabulous, but really enjoyed getting to work with a new group, because they were also fabulous. Before the talk, with models, and the amazing Sarah who arranged the whole event in my Poiret dress: Because we had male …