All posts tagged: 1885

Rate the Dress: Liberty of London Tea Gown

Dear Readers, I apologise that this dress is late. It is late for the very best of reasons though: yesterday was my Afternoon Tea benefit talk for Save the Children at Premier House. When that finished at 4, we had to get undressed, I had to grab a bite of dinner, and then at 6 I taught a Beginners Sewing class. And I just may have been up into the wee smalls finishing things the night before. Just maybe. So I’m a little bit tired, and went to bed early, and got up late, so the post is a bit late. Re: Last weeks 1930s dress on Myrna Loy. The official rating is a 7.8 out of 10, but I really don’t think the dress deserves it, because most of you were too bored by it to vote (also it had waist ruffles (oops, did I just betray a prejudice!?)). Those who really love 1930s weighed in, but there was a distinct lack of interest in the comments. Alas, I have no way to calculate …

Greek key shoes – swoon

Published by The Dreamstress

As we all know, I’m really into Greek keys. My current Greek key obsession is these evening boots: *Swoon* I lurve them. Everything about them. The red heels. The invisible side lacing. The curlicues between the Greek key borders. The way the Greek keys turn on the toes. The stripe up the front. Happiness. There is a stripe up the back too. Happiness. It’s more of a platonic lurve from afar though. Like the way you drool over a hot celebrity, but actually don’t want to meet them in person and would just blush and freak out and disappear yourself if they showed up in person and approached you. I like the idea of the shoes, but really, I couldn’t handle them in person. It’s just too much shoe for me.

Talk about un-natural shoe shapes…

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If you thought that last week’s red boots were un-natural in shape, check out these shoes from the Powerhouse Museum in Australia: Look at those insteps! Now, I’m high unusually high in the instep and the arch, but that is ridiculous! I do love the detailing on these shoes: the scrolls around the toe, the buttons, and most of all the tiny blue leather fleur-de-lys, or Chinese inspired patterns. They were made as exhibition pieces to show off the shoe-makers skill, so perhaps actually fitting a real person wasn’t an important skill for a cobbler!