My local public TV has been running the Victoria series.   They re-ran the first 5 episodes last weekend, which I watched though I had seen them earlier. I closely watched the wedding scenes to see the dress. Then I did some web searching for pictures of the real gown. I concluded that the TV people copied the gown as it was displayed a couple years back. This display did not include the wedding laces that originally were used on the gown-- just the basic dress. The filming was very cleverly done -- featuring mostly a head shot of Victoria, or having her partly hidden behind another person or piece of the set. Only one scene showed the entire dress, and only briefly. It made me wonder if the director knew the dress was not correctly duplicated and deliberately did not let the dress show much, or if the costumers did not research the subject very far and just stopped with a picture of the dress as it was in the display. Does anyone in UK remember any talk about this when the program first came out? They did such a good job of making period costumes for all the characters that the lack in the wedding gown was a surprise.Â
I also wondered at all the servants wearing real lace collars. I didn't think this was normal for servants, but maybe being in the royal household let them dress better than other servants. Alice in Oregon -- where rain is predicted for another 7 days. Sunday and Monday we had snowflakes bigger than quarters. Lovely to see. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
