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Up Te Mata Hill

Published by The Dreamstress

On our last night in the Hawke’s Bay, before she left New Zealand, the Naiad and I took a ramble on Te Mata hill.

The light was sublime, Bailey the Backpacker’s dog was frisky, the air had just enough of a chill to make tramping fun, and the scenery was spectacular.

Best of all, when we got back to the car, just as it began to get really dark. the Naiad had packed a thermos of tea and a bottle of farm-fresh milk.  We sat on a log in the deepening gloom with cups of tea in our hand and watched the lights come on over the Hawke’s Bay, like the best sort of Christmas display.

Rate the Dress: Golf wear for 1917

Published by The Dreamstress

Last week’s extremely red Elise dress was very popular with most of you, coming in at 8.3 out of 10.

I can’t say I thought it deserved that rating: to me it looked like Elise asked her clients to each list the things they wanted in a dress and when it came time to make one client’s dress she realised she didn’t know whose list belonged to whom, so Elise used them all to create the dress.  So some of the ideas were brilliant (that train!), and some were naff (the weird scrunching), but they certainly shouldn’t have all been on one dress!  But that was just my opinion, and the fun of Rate the Dress is in the range of tastes!

I’ve had a request to do more sportswear for ‘Rate the Dress.’  That fits in perfectly with the NZ Summer theme that I wanted to go for, so here is my first offering, a golfing outfit from 1917

Woman in golf clothes holding a golf club. 1917, NYPL

Alas, it is in black and white, and all we know is that the hat is in green and white.  You’ll have to colour the rest of the suit in your imagination.  The caption describes the ensemble as ‘fetching’.  Do you agree?

Rate the Dress on a Scale of 1 to 10.