Hello, dear readers! This is just a quick note to direct you to my beautiful new website-under-construction. It is called Mrs McLean's Waltzing Party, and its web address is https://tradcathsocialdancing.co.uk/ If you look at the top right corner, you will see the friendly word "Blog."
As yet we haven't put in a comments box, but that will come along after the tremendous fuss occasioned by my article over at "Tradition & Sanity" has died down.
Mrs McLean, I love your hair in that photo, the one in which it has been twisted to look something like the Edwardian hairstyles of the early 20th century. (I suppose you're too young to remember the revival of Gibson-girl style hair in the later 1970s? Most people don't have enough hair to pull it off but I'm sure you could....) The outfit, or what I can see of it, looks much like one from the Titanic-era - as the vintage clothing websites used to insist on calling it. Some of the most beautiful clothes ever were made then.
ReplyDeleteThank you! You will laugh, but I got my hair done for a 1940s event, and that was my incredibly out-of-date-for-the-1940s dress. Victory rolls do not really work when you have as much hair as me. Re: the Gibson Girls: yes. Definitely I could now, but in the late 1970s my hair was cut short a la Little Orphan Annie, whom I greatly resembled. Edwardian clothes are my favourite of all time, and I think we should have stopped there. Local peasant clothes for the country and shore, and lovely 1912 fashion for town. Ah, well.
ReplyDeleteI think you should try a Gibson girl look some day. Meanwhile, the Victory Roll look was lovely on you though I didn't think it looked like a Victory Roll. But it did look very pretty. If you've seen pictures of Lily Langtrey or Queen Alexandra they did wear their hair a bit like yours in that photo.
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