Richard Armitage and museums. Don't get any better than this!
Richard Armitage as John Thornton is officially my newest Hot Historical Actor Dude.
The list, in no particular order...
1. Hugh Dancy ("Ella Enchanted," "Elizabeth I")
2. Richard Armitage ("North and South")
3. Russell Crowe ("Master and Commander," "Gladiator")
4. Rupert Penry-Jones ("Persuasion")
5. Colin Firth ("Pride and Prejudice")
6. Eric Bana ("Troy," "The Other Boleyn Girl")
7. Paul Newman ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid")
I'm sure there's more, but that's just off the top of my head. :)
And now, for museum pics! :D
This is, we think (and we being me and Kelly, the other intern), an early 1900s wedding gown.
A beautiful white lawn dress. Waaant...
A nightgown, perhaps?
A bathing suit! :D Made of wool! D:
A cute '50s navy-colored suit. I would wear something like this!
We weren't sure the exact date of this dress, but it looks to be late Victorian/early Edwardian.
This graduation dress was worn in the late 1920's by a daughter of one of the city's leading families, the Jewetts. The dress even came with a picture of Virginia wearing it! (Yes, those are my hands holding the pic.)
A very cute green flapper dress that I think must have been extremely fun to dance in. Check out those flounces!
Another flapper dress. The beading made it heavy, and as we put it on the mannequin, we heard tiny taps as beads fell off and hit the wood floor. :(
It doesn't look so bad in the photograph, but in person, this dress was hideous. The undergarment (the one with the ribbon under the bust) was lovely in itself, but then we put the mustard-yellow "useless jacket" (in Kelly's words) over it and just about barfed. I pity the poor dear who wore it. (Maybe that's why it was in such good condition!)
And last but not least...
We liked this dress, but the date tag was missing. So Kelly and I set to work trying to decide which era it came from. It looks rather late Victorian (1880s), but the seams on the shoulders were dropped, indicative of the 1860s. So, we decided to say it was from the 1870s. As we were putting the tissue paper back in place, the date tag dropped out. "Circa 1874." Voila!
(For higher-quality versions of these pictures, click here.)
And now I'm off to softball! (Again. X_x)
The list, in no particular order...
1. Hugh Dancy ("Ella Enchanted," "Elizabeth I")
2. Richard Armitage ("North and South")
3. Russell Crowe ("Master and Commander," "Gladiator")
4. Rupert Penry-Jones ("Persuasion")
5. Colin Firth ("Pride and Prejudice")
6. Eric Bana ("Troy," "The Other Boleyn Girl")
7. Paul Newman ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid")
I'm sure there's more, but that's just off the top of my head. :)
And now, for museum pics! :D
This is, we think (and we being me and Kelly, the other intern), an early 1900s wedding gown.
A beautiful white lawn dress. Waaant...
A nightgown, perhaps?
A bathing suit! :D Made of wool! D:
A cute '50s navy-colored suit. I would wear something like this!
We weren't sure the exact date of this dress, but it looks to be late Victorian/early Edwardian.
This graduation dress was worn in the late 1920's by a daughter of one of the city's leading families, the Jewetts. The dress even came with a picture of Virginia wearing it! (Yes, those are my hands holding the pic.)
A very cute green flapper dress that I think must have been extremely fun to dance in. Check out those flounces!
Another flapper dress. The beading made it heavy, and as we put it on the mannequin, we heard tiny taps as beads fell off and hit the wood floor. :(
It doesn't look so bad in the photograph, but in person, this dress was hideous. The undergarment (the one with the ribbon under the bust) was lovely in itself, but then we put the mustard-yellow "useless jacket" (in Kelly's words) over it and just about barfed. I pity the poor dear who wore it. (Maybe that's why it was in such good condition!)
And last but not least...
We liked this dress, but the date tag was missing. So Kelly and I set to work trying to decide which era it came from. It looks rather late Victorian (1880s), but the seams on the shoulders were dropped, indicative of the 1860s. So, we decided to say it was from the 1870s. As we were putting the tissue paper back in place, the date tag dropped out. "Circa 1874." Voila!
(For higher-quality versions of these pictures, click here.)
And now I'm off to softball! (Again. X_x)