Dressy-Up Time.
Hi,
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How are you doing.
Never mind, even if your week has been rubbish, the chances are that you will now have a weekend off to get yourself back into balance.
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So, no wonder it suddenly became so cold last night, we woke up this morning to a world of whiteness once again.
Brrrrrr, I want it to stop now!
I give up!
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However, this has been quite an interesting week for Big H and I.
We had fun at the costume makers on Tuesday morning, when we went for a fitting.
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Big H is getting a midnight blue velvet frock coat with huge turned-up cuffs and big buttons.
It has a fully flaring, knee-length skirt, which even has pockets in it.
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There are also velvet knee-length breeches to match.
These have been fitted with a modern-style fly, in order to facilitate visits to the loo, which is probably a very good idea.
I could have imagined him being a bit inebriated and dashing off to the gents, and then being totally confused, if they had been made with laces, hooks and eyes or whatever else could have been correct for that historical period.
A possibility of accidents then, I should have thought.
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He will be getting a collarless white shirt with lace cuffs, and a white stock with lace ends, to tie at the neck.
This will then be covered by a long waistcoat, down to mid-thigh, made in a material almost the same as my under-dress.
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I remember about 20′odd years ago when there was a sudden fashion for men’s all-in-one underwear.
These looked like a short-legged version of a Victorian bathing suit and they were pulled up over the legs, before slipping the straps over the arms and up to the shoulders.
They actually looked quite cute too.
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The only problem was that there was no fly, so the underwear had to be taken down in the reverse order if a guy needed a pee.
Of course, this was not easy when he was in the gents.
He had to go into a cubicle and remove the jacket and shirt etc., and then take down the said undergarment.
And God help him if he was in dire need of relief.
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Sometimes these mad fashion designers do not fully think things through!
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My costume has a flowered and striped under-dress, in cream, pale green, and red.
There is n accompanying sleeved over-dress in a deep red taffeta, which has been cut to stick out at both sides and accommodate some hip panniers underneath it.
There is going to be lace around the neckline and the sleeves, as well as on the bottom of the striped underskirt.
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I have to say that I enjoyed the whole process immensely.
It is very exciting to be dressed up in the intricate clothes of a long ago style….and it feels very feminine after the quick ‘lycra top and jeans style’ that we have today.
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There was only one drawback to the whole experience though.
The dressmaker has two very hairy cats and a big dog, which have shed hairs all over.
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Since then I have been suffering with sore eyes and a totally blocked nose because of my asthma/allergy problem.
This is not helped either because I have never used any of the steroid-type inhalers that I was prescribed years ago.
Hey, it is a personal thing!
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My brother has had to use them since he was in his early twenties, and he worries, because he says that…. ‘If you don’t use them, then you could go into anaphylactic shock and die’….and I do like him to care about me!
But hey, some things you have to decide for yourself, although I would NEVER advise anybody else to be so silly because there could be very serious consequences.
It won’t matter to me then though, because I shall be dead, and everyone will be saying ‘Stupid old bat, we told her so but would she listen!’
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So, that is it for today then, there are places to go and people to see.
Take care.
J,x.
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