Oaks Day Styling + Watershed #2

The Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival is here.

I am taking the liberty to fashion a little frippery based on the guidelines

of the calendar's dress code.

Queensland Oaks Day is the 31st May.

Be guided by femininity.

Pale colours, lace and flowers.

Not quite as below, but you get my point.

Here's a flora in-the-making.

And the resultant styling with a few sartorial elements.

 With a silver jacquard jacket.

Lace frock.

Lady-like length.
Not too tight.
Not too loose.

Statement necklace, de rigueur.

A fur wrap that's in the making.
I'll trim, sew and line with satin later.

 Lace You-You Louboutins.
Peep-toe pumps.

Frankly, my favourite shoes.

Gloves.
Lace, leather or satin.

Are you wondering about Watershed  #2.

Well, dear Followers of Frippery, I will tell you.

For a long time I have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of my 50th Follower.
I was 49 for a very long time.

And, the week before last, I got them.

From none other than the erudite and well-travelled Hattatts.

To say I was chuffed would be an understatement.

Then, in a puff their little lettered avatar had disappeared from my right-hand side margin.

I searched for days.

They have never come back.

Perhaps they are reading?



Dear Hattatts, if you are reading, I will keep burning my flame.
In anticipation.

See you for a Stradbroke Day fashion guide soon, it's red, black and white.

In case you are wondering.

Oh, and feel free to become my 50th Follower!



Imagine my Surprise

 These are some of my first Floras from about four years ago.

 This flower, too.

So, you can imagine my surprise when I saw a Flora one-of-a-kind

on television last Sunday night!

Luckily, Foxtel came in handy and I could rewind and take these screen-shots.
I never thought I'd see the day.
I don't do it for money. No-one makes a million selling frippery.
 I do it for the creativity and soul-soothing.
That's enough.

 My black beaded headpiece popped up on Kimberley Busteed's head, again.
On TV.

It was a Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival segment that included behind-the-scenes

footage of the Style magazine shoot.
A watershed moment, dear Followers of Flora's Frippery.
I am going to have start a press release file.
I might need a secretary.
Flora's been showcased on the lifestyle program Great South East.

Here's a bit of the magazine editorial from Style that was filmed for television.

Kimberley is the Ambassador of this year's Winter Racing season.
I've tried to capture the essence of the television story in true-journalistic style.
Jockeys.

A horse.

Lovelies lining up for Fashions on the Field.

 Kimberley getting zhu zhu'd up ready to pop on the lace Flora.

 Checking the light meter.

Again, checking the light meter.

 Shooting.

 Explaining important things to Damien Rossi, a reporter on Great South East.

 Telling everyone to wear Flora's frippery.

Sorry, I made that one up.

The crowd against the race-track on Stradbroke Day at Doomben, Brisbane.

Red, black and white is the palate of the day.



Keep surprising.

 Stay creative.