There are two kinds of people in the world. People who hear you are planning to dress up like Marie Antoinette and get chased by a dinosaur and ask ‘Can I join!?!’ and people who hear you are planning to dress up like Marie Antoinette and get chased by a dinosaur and ask “Why…?”.
There are wild blackberry bushes all over the Wellington region. They are an invasive pest, and rather a nightmare because they form impenetrable thorny thickets. But they are good for jam.
What was Hungarian court dress for women ca, 1800 as shown in Alex’s portrait, and how did it evolve from a style of dress worn by specific noble groups in what we now call Hungary to become díszmagyar: the formal court dress of Hungary under the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
