Showing off my DeniseBrain dress!

Finally had a chance to wear the dress I bought from VFG Trade Member Maggie Wilds. And I'll be wearing it again when I return to Asheville and the Downton Abbey costume exhibit (this time, to see my BFF's mom, who'll be visiting). No one else will know it's a few years more recent than the latest DA episode -- they're only in 1924, and this is a somewhat later style ; ).

Here's the album with the dress --> http://bit.ly/SalvageSpring2015

And here's the post about "Dressing Downton" (wearing another dress from VFG Trade Member Marzilli Vintage!) --> http://betterdressesvintage.com/blo...bit-visit-dressing-downton-at-biltmore-estate

 

You look fabulous, Liza!

 

You look smashing, Liza! Thanks for sharing!!

Gail

 

Both dresses look just lovely on you Liza!

 

Liza,

You look lovely, and your friends look great too. It sounds like a wonderful day.

 

You look great in both dresses. The dresses were very nice, you are so pretty, and you really looked fabulous in both of them. You actually made me wish I had places to attend to wear clothing like that too. Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

 

Liza, that dress looks like it was made for you! You look amazing!

 

Lovely, Liza!

 

Aww... thanks, folks. Appreciate it.

Caryn, you've got to MAKE places/events to wear this stuff. Hook up with local vintage lovers and dress up for "whatever." Go to tea, or out to drinks. Find an old-fashioned themed place/exhibit/event and dress up to go.

When I went to the Dressing Downton exhibit, you can bet I was the only one in antique clothing. And FYI, those Edwardian parasols make standing/walking around a lot easier on the back. I felt like the Dowager Countess, leaning on my cane, but hey, it helped!

Also good for putting your vintage stuff to use, sign up with any local casting companies you can find (do a Google and/or Facebook search). Then watch and wait for period/costume productions and apply. Anytime they ask for "upscale" or "party goers" or "formal" or "gala," I apply. I usually wear vintage (nobody knows it's vintage).

Here I am (in blue 1950s dress) in the background on MTV's "Finding Carter" (Season 2, Episode 3, the party scene). Great fun! If you want to see it in action, here's the full episode (party is about halfway through): http://www.mtv.com/shows/finding-ca...-ever-getting-back-together/1735440/playlist/

 

That is awesome, Liza!!! woohoobanannaemoti

Gail

 

Liza, you look so beautiful and regal in everything that you wear. Kudos.

 

WOW! Our Liza is a star! But we knew that.....

 

How fabulous you are. Bravo!

 

Well you have just opened my eyes to ways to find places to go to like this Liza. I will do as you say and maybe in the future be able to do as you do or have done. I have often felt like a bit of an awkward person when going out because I do not drink and so while everyone toasts with pretty alcoholic beverages I am the singled out sober one. Sometimes I think it makes my fun factor seem lower. I do like tea a lot though so if I could find events like this or costume/theater events that would be right up my alley.

How very cool too you in the background there of Finding Carter. I have noticed people in the backgrounds of shows before and wondered how they got their parts.

 

Caryn, we can be sober together. I'm too much of a control freak to have ever enjoyed drinking, especially in excess (and for me, excess if one full glass of wine!). I'm not a teetotaller, but many times I've sidled up to a bar and ordered a ginger-ale or a "sea breeze, without the breeze," LOL. I'm certainly no less fun (and much tidier) than my drunk compatriots. Don't let that stop you.

After the "Salvage" event, Kat, Sarah, and I went to a local cafe. They both drank wine. I drank tea. Nobody cared.

And anybody can be an extra. All it takes is (a) a film industry in your area (b) a desire to get up at 4am and work until 2am for $68, and (c) a desire to do the exact same thing 45 times. Oddly enough, it's actually a lot of fun. While you're doing it you think, "This is torture. I am never doing this again!!" And then, just like childbirth, you forget and do it again. LOL.

 

So I went back to Biltmore on Wednesday to meet up with BFF Ellen and her mom, who I hadn't seen in nearly 13 years -- far too long. It was cold and rainy, so I didn't dress up. By the time I arrived, they'd finished seeing the Downton exhibit and interior of the house. We ate lunch and took a guided bus tour of the hidden areas of the property. Fascinating. I had no idea the estate was so "green." Very forward-thinking, ecologically speaking. They are all about sustainability. Very impressed.

But the really interesting thing is that Ellen told me there was a couple there dressed in 1890s costume (the house was finished and occupied in 1895, if I recall correctly). She said the woman looked like something out of Hello Dolly (thus, I'm guessing costume, not originals). What this means, of course, is that I've got somewhere to wear my Marzilli polka dot dress, if I dare. It's wool, so probably not until fall. Who wants to go with me?