Here you go – for those who were wondering, this is what the vaguely Victorian outfit looked like at the end of a long day, in a lovely Victorian staircase hall.
Contrary to a few people’s concerns, I did not boil to death with so many layers of clothes on. The skirt was quite heavy, but the bustle was so comfortable I kept forgetting I was wearing it and trying to squeeze through spaces that were impossible to negotiate with such an enormous bottom!
At the end of the day I also learned that it is possible to run for the bus in a corset and bustle – although I wouldn’t recommend it! In fact it’s not the ideal outfit for bus travel generally. You can’t get upstairs, for a start, and I was a bit worried that the driver would ask me to buy two tickets for taking up so much room!
I must admit that, without the complicated underpinnings, I’d actually quite happily wear this outfit (or something very similar) to work on any old not-particularly-Victorian day.
very cool 😀
would some kind of headcovering be period-and-class appropriate to les-modern your hair, next time? (suggestion not criticism! – I’d kind of forgotten you weren’t bright pink any more when you said your hair wasn’t period before)
Yes, definitely! I just didn’t have time.
Hee, you’ve seen me at least twice since my hair’s gone back to “normal” – funny how the memory of the pink is persistent. I forget myself, sometimes. 🙂
I’m coming around to the idea of period dress for work. However, I feel I have my own built in bustle, so the rest of the outfit should be a
easy, no? 🙂