By February 2013 I had gotten my “ball” gown ready enough to wear. I’d been to a few reenactments (Summer 2012 – posts will follow at some point!), and was excited to hear about the Grand Military Ball in Canton, Ohio. (Edited to add: the ball is called the Ohio Regimental Military Ball [SK 2/17/2014])
I didn’t get many great pictures (and I’m only posting my own photos on here unless specially noted), but I’ll share what I have!
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| Me in my hotel room before stepping downstairs for the dance. I did end up adjusting the hoops after the ball, since I noticed that my foot kept hooking the bottom one. |
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| Back view. I made the ribbon hairpiece based loosely on an illustration in Godey’s. My hair was braided and coiled on the back of my head, and covered my ears (as you can see in the previous picture). I also had ringlets coming down the back, but you can’t see them because they are obscured by ribbons and lace! |
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| LOTS of people! |
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| With LOTS of pretty dresses! |
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| The dancing was similar to Contra dancing. We did Reels, and circle dances, and waltzes; we did dances where you switched partners as well as dances where you stayed with one. |
Most sincerely yours,
~ Sarah