Rienzi Outing

[atherleisure]

The Houston Area Regency Society had a museum outing on Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts' Rienzi house collection. There were eight of us there, including a couple of new people who are interested in joining our costume fun. (Hooray for new people!) Everyone who was at the dinner party last week except our Ft. Worth visitor attended, which gave one person an opportunity to finish up a project that she had originally intended to wear last week.

After the museum, we retired to the Black Labrador for an early dinner and got to enjoy each other's company for another couple of hours.

This time more than one picture was taken, though I think those who took pictures made a bit of an effort. Don't think I'm one of them, though; all the credit goes to others. With that being said, I believe Martha Graham and Kaycee Cheramie took the pictures linked below.







As I mentioned previously, I really didn't want to wear Regency, and the silver exhibit was something like 1650-1825 so I used that as an excuse to wear the 1780 robe a la piemontaise. I'm quite partial to that dress.

Comments

[mala-14.livejournal.com]

Great looking group! And your piemontaise is lovely, worth re-wearing for sure.

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I like that the piemontaise is not something that hasn't been reproduced a lot so it's a little different but still very accurate.

[missmalexander.livejournal.com]

How fun! I love your piemontaise, it is so elegant!

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's a fun dress to sweep around in, and it has a really cool way of billowing out behind when I walk rapidly.

[jaelie.livejournal.com]

I love events that span a century or so. Your piemontaise is beautiful.

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

I love it when things have that much flexibility. I'm not sure the organizer really meant us to go with the dates on the silver exhibit, but I didn't want to confine myself to Regency.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

That's a really nice group! I'm glad you wore the piemontaise; it's a great setting.

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

It was a good outing. The only downside was that it turns out that while a group at the Rienzi can be up to 10 people, they split you into groups of four or five at the most so we had to split into two groups for the tour. Everything else was great. I do wonder whether they have more of the stairs in the gardens open during other times of the year when the gardens may show better.