http://goingtotahitiproductions.com NYC independent production - giving more opportunities to women in theater WITHOUT discounting the men... Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:34:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://goingtotahitiproductions.com/and-what-will-you-be-doing-saturday-night/#comment-1839 Karen Eterovich Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:34:38 +0000 http://goingtotahitiproductions.com/?p=1776#comment-1839 Dearest Lady Ammirati, We are delighted to attend! We are just back from London. I was hardly there a minute before I could feel my morals declining. But I had to see about a dedicaton to HRH the Prince Regent. At any rate, I have been in a great debate about my wardrobe for your ball. The white linen or the off-white? A cap or flowers? I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. What do you think on the subject? All at once, I keep telling myself, "You must really get some flounces. Are not some of your large stock of white morning gowns just in a happy state for a flounce?" Will any one attending be wearing flounces? I was intrigued to learn from Mrs. Tickars's young lady, to my high amusement, that the stays now are not made to force the bosom up at all; that was a very unbecoming, unnatural fashion. I was really glad to hear that they are not to be so much off the shoulders as they were. A little bit of shoulder can be too much when one passes a certain age. As Fanny Burney says, "In the first pride of youth and beauty, our attention is all upon how we are looked at. But when those begin to be somewhat on the wane - when that barbarous time comes into play, which revenges upon poor miserable woman all the airs she has been playing upon silly man - our ambition, then, is how we are listened to. I continue quite well; in proof whereof I have bathed again this morning. It was absolutely necessary that I should have the little fever and indisposition which I had: it has been all the fashion this week in Brooklyn! I do mean to go to as many balls as possible but yours shall be very special indeed as I know of no other ball celebrating a novel made into a play. How very fashionable this shall be, quite "de rigeur"! So, Lady, after assuring you of my good health, I remain your most obedient and humble servant, Miss Jane Austen Dearest Lady Ammirati,
We are delighted to attend! We are just back from London. I was hardly there a minute before I could feel my morals declining. But I had to see about a dedicaton to HRH the Prince Regent.
At any rate, I have been in a great debate about my wardrobe for your ball. The white linen or the off-white? A cap or flowers? I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. What do you think on the subject?
All at once, I keep telling myself, “You must really get some flounces. Are not some of your large stock of white morning gowns just in a happy state for a flounce?” Will any one attending be wearing flounces?
I was intrigued to learn from Mrs. Tickars’s young lady, to my high amusement, that the stays now are not made to force the bosom up at all; that was a very unbecoming, unnatural fashion. I was really glad to hear that they are not to be so much off the shoulders as they were. A little bit of shoulder can be too much when one passes a certain age. As Fanny Burney says, “In the first pride of youth and beauty, our attention is all upon how we are looked at. But when those begin to be somewhat on the wane – when that barbarous time comes into play, which revenges upon poor miserable woman all the airs she has been playing upon silly man – our ambition, then, is how we are listened to.
I continue quite well; in proof whereof I have bathed again this morning. It was absolutely necessary that I should have the little fever and indisposition which I had: it has been all the fashion this week in Brooklyn! I do mean to go to as many balls as possible but yours shall be very special indeed as I know of no other ball celebrating a novel made into a play. How very fashionable this shall be, quite “de rigeur”!
So, Lady, after assuring you of my good health, I remain your most obedient and humble servant,
Miss Jane Austen

]]> http://goingtotahitiproductions.com/what-to-wear-what-to-wear/#comment-1838 Karen Eterovich Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:54:51 +0000 http://goingtotahitiproductions.com/?p=1689#comment-1838 There you have it! A brilliant and creative posting by Lady Ammirati on dressing both men and women. I must say I could not have come up with a better solution myself. And when I think of the labor of making these dresses. I always used to say "I cannot determine what to do about my new gown; I wish such things were to be bought ready-made." And now you have them! This is extraordinary. I shall talk of nothing but this for the rest of today and perhaps tomorrow too! There you have it! A brilliant and creative posting by Lady Ammirati on dressing both men and women. I must say I could not have come up with a better solution myself. And when I think of the labor of making these dresses. I always used to say “I cannot determine what to do about my new gown; I wish such things were to be bought ready-made.” And now you have them! This is extraordinary. I shall talk of nothing but this for the rest of today and perhaps tomorrow too!

]]> http://goingtotahitiproductions.com/what-to-wear-what-to-wear/#comment-1763 Anastasia M. Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:10:56 +0000 http://goingtotahitiproductions.com/?p=1689#comment-1763 This is awesome!!! Wish I could be there to see everyone looking so beautiful and dashing in their Anne & Wentworth attire!! :) This is awesome!!! Wish I could be there to see everyone looking so beautiful and dashing in their Anne & Wentworth attire!!

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