Fort Fred 2014
April 26th, 2014 |
| I recently travelled to DC/MD to spend a fun weekend with my good friend Gloria. We spent a day seeing historic-fashion-related spots of interest in assorted museums in downtown DC, and then we headed out to Fort Fred for a day of costumes, friends, and shopping! |
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| I wore an older dress, but finished this fun, fabulous, gigantic hat in time to wear it! |
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| First things first, we got right down to the business of shopping. . . |
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| What, they didn't have Hello Kitty iPhone cases in the 18th century? I'm sure you must be wrong. . . Side note: I love the way the wind kept puffing up my bonnet, making it look extra huge and crazy! |
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| Gloria's lovely printed cotton dress with polonaising. . . |
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| Where would we be without my traditional, anachronistice Coca-Cola advertisement? I'm eternally grateful to Mike for this particular Diet Coke because I was SO in the mood for it, and thought they didn't have Coke at the marketplace at all! |
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| A quick necklace fix. . . |
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| And. . . More shopping! |
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| All that shopping, and all I'd bought was this printed neckerchief, which Gloria obligingly held up for a photo: |
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| Kat and Judy, looking fabulous in their polonaised gowns! |
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| It was so windy! See how Taylor's dress is trying to take flight as she chats with a friend she bumped into. . . |
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| Doug and Mike were such good eggs, lugging around bags of shopping! |
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| Apparently, even though some folks had visited the marketplace several times over the years, nobody had actually been to the fort itself! We remedied it this time, and saw a little reenacting, and then took tons of pictures of all our fabulous costumes. |
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| Mike was our official Massachusetts Costumers photographer, because he is so great at getting great costume pics, and so very willing to do it! |
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| Maggie in her fabulous curtain-along ensemble: |
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| Isabella, sporting my favorite color, and with bright pink ribbons that are one of her Fort Fred purchases from this year! |
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| My lovely hostess, Gloria, looking charming in her printed cotton dress: |
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| But secretly, I love the silly pictures the best! |
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| A little impromptu gown surgery before going in front of the lens. . . |
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| Taylor in her fabulous cross-barred silk dress and a new hat she trimmed in time to wear to this event: |
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| Stephanie and Matt were so adorable, and apparently unintentionally matched in their blue stripey ensembles (though from very different eras, of course!) |
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| Another adorable couple: Maggie and Doug! |
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| Then it was my turn to model my outfit, by which I mean, my fabulous hat because that's what this outfit was all about! ;) |
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| I don't even know what's going on here, but it's hands-down my favorite picture of me from the day! The Bonnet Monster will get you! |
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| Of course, there must always be a shoe shot! |
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| This one pretty much sums up the weather we had that day: Lovely blue skies, but SO MUCH WIND!!! |
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| Special thanks to Taylor and Stephanie for all the pictures here which have me in them! |
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