tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45541531212974527402024-03-18T15:57:41.759-04:00Cornelia Powell author & guest speaker, wedding folklorist & fashion historianUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger341125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-80851572382571801332024-03-13T07:30:00.001-04:002024-03-13T07:30:00.144-04:00...of feminine design.<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ntwwQi_Bny7XxJFNqKaCt7TTK1tKjjqEHGG2R6WJ8T2AslGdubp_0DwG6zcjXnIdW5hMU4K4CEwgGnQfftx-zXgj8qiU9dBDfHjhKaJucClIsqCCcJlscygpZmjIYlkkemIn9opL8kUbyfre8A9V75cVWrTEIrWcG0e7s3s8amPouyuNuqicKvGt1s14/s526/346267795_5999625696803073_262200076574182650_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ntwwQi_Bny7XxJFNqKaCt7TTK1tKjjqEHGG2R6WJ8T2AslGdubp_0DwG6zcjXnIdW5hMU4K4CEwgGnQfftx-zXgj8qiU9dBDfHjhKaJucClIsqCCcJlscygpZmjIYlkkemIn9opL8kUbyfre8A9V75cVWrTEIrWcG0e7s3s8amPouyuNuqicKvGt1s14/w400-h400/346267795_5999625696803073_262200076574182650_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-58406874205274441902024-03-08T00:30:00.002-05:002024-03-08T00:30:00.134-05:00International Women's Day...Month...Always
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaZeRBvycvEFpho3rQP9gB78YyDjcQzTD6vpzvf-C_bnMoveBm4Ghro9Hk39acj0xlr7RysLbmir5lmZmXj8584X_6LEXxvWUS3v9lVgyO6fXvHv1x5K0U8kYwTa5peBuAFxzLsoj05COeqEr0mCd0Nii7O-a-TFGd4nRvVxXQsXBXliht401Zpfo4VgcT/s938/NWHA.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaZeRBvycvEFpho3rQP9gB78YyDjcQzTD6vpzvf-C_bnMoveBm4Ghro9Hk39acj0xlr7RysLbmir5lmZmXj8584X_6LEXxvWUS3v9lVgyO6fXvHv1x5K0U8kYwTa5peBuAFxzLsoj05COeqEr0mCd0Nii7O-a-TFGd4nRvVxXQsXBXliht401Zpfo4VgcT/s400/NWHA.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Our History is Our Strength </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>International Women's Day </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1977, when the women who would establish the National Women’s History Alliance began planning a women’s history week, March 8th, International Women’s Day, was chosen as the focal date. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The selection was based on wanting to ensure that the celebration of women’s history would include a multicultural perspective, an international connection between and among all women, and the recognition of women as significant in the paid workforce.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">United States women’s history became the primary focus of the curriculum and resources developed. At that time, there were no school districts in the country teaching women’s history. The goal, although it most often seemed a dream, was to first impact the local schools, then the nation, and finally the world. It is a dream that is becoming a reality.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Women’s History Week, always the week that included March 8th, became National Women’s History Week in 1981 and in 1987 National Women’s History Week became National Women’s History Month. The expansion from local to national and from week to month was the result of a lobbying effort that included hundreds of individuals and dozens of women’s, educational, and historical organizations. It was an effort mobilized and spearheaded by the National Women’s History Alliance. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">National Women’s History Month is now recognized throughout the world. Women from Germany, China, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Japan, Russia, the Ukraine, and several African nations have visited the National Women’s History Alliance’s office or attended its events. One result from this contact has been the establishment of a women’s history program and museum in the Ukraine. 1989 The National Women’s History Alliance accepted an invitation from the government of Spain to address an international women’s conference on the importance of women’s history and the impact of National Women’s History Month. In 2001 a sistership with the Working Women’s Institute of Japan was established resulting in the National Women’s History’s posters and display sets being featured in the organization's first exhibit.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The <a href="http://www.nationalwomenshistoryallliance.org">National Women’s History Alliance’s website</a> reaches the global community. The Alliance receives emails from individuals throughout the world. Each year hundreds of National Women’s History Month posters are distributed to military bases and Department of Defense schools throughout the world for special programs and events that celebrate and recognize women’s accomplishments. It is the hope of the National Women’s History Alliance that the celebrations at these different venues will ignite a sense of celebration and recognition that honors women of all nations.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">[reprinted from the NWHA newsletter.]</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-14365216205069293212024-02-24T13:17:00.000-05:002024-02-24T13:17:36.235-05:00Second-Class Citizen, Part II: 'That Vote Has Been Costly'<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8pJR8TYXsfzjIffZxSj6K1cHmmkYHlcOrmRelExerSQ13HLPROFe-vbylcA3PZaue_X_yvnFEBU8JQuNO-YzWk6xZXfEQBzX3IXgT6MN-wbZ3YqXh4SjPz-f_PLNGVF3kRYsD6_moIRKDQNwENR03yNFiLX6a_heUt0bTZ9gvGqF8MxwD-ZoZ61TshrHa/s1200/16.%203%20women%20carry%20banners%20for%20suffrage%20during%20a%20picket%20in%20front%20of%20WH%20in%20WDC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1200" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8pJR8TYXsfzjIffZxSj6K1cHmmkYHlcOrmRelExerSQ13HLPROFe-vbylcA3PZaue_X_yvnFEBU8JQuNO-YzWk6xZXfEQBzX3IXgT6MN-wbZ3YqXh4SjPz-f_PLNGVF3kRYsD6_moIRKDQNwENR03yNFiLX6a_heUt0bTZ9gvGqF8MxwD-ZoZ61TshrHa/w400-h263/16.%203%20women%20carry%20banners%20for%20suffrage%20during%20a%20picket%20in%20front%20of%20WH%20in%20WDC.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><b>Women picket the White House, 1917, quoting President Wilson from his war message on their banner.</b></span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The demonstrations, led by Alice Paul, challenged Wilson on his inaction; the daily picketing began in January 1917 and continued for 18 months, despite weather, harassment, and arrest.</b><br /><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="graf graf--p" name="6bb4"><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>arrie Chapman Catt</b> may be a name less familiar to some than the name of her mentor Susan B. Anthony, yet with her considerable organizational skills — a brilliant strategist and former teacher — she was the most recognized name in the U.S. suffrage movement in the early twentieth century. Catt led the National American Woman Suffrage Association in its final, exhaustive push to win the vote for women in the summer of 1920. In her brilliant book, <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote</em> published in 2018, Elaine Weiss described the scene when Catt finally returned to her home in New York once the Nineteenth Amendment was signed into law. Catt sat at her desk and, looking out at her garden, wrote “a poignant charge to the women voters of the nation”:</span></p><p class="graf graf--p" name="dbb9" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guaranty of your liberty. That vote of yours has cost millions of dollars and the lives of thousands of women. Women have suffered agony of soul which you never can comprehend, that you and your daughters might inherit political freedom. </em><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">That vote has been costly. Prize it!</em></strong></span></p><p class="graf graf--p" name="e1a6" style="text-align: center;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em"><span style="font-size: medium;">The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer. Use it intelligently, conscientiously, prayerfully. Progress is calling to you to make no pause. <b>Act!</b></span></em></p><p class="graf graf--p" name="a56e"><span style="font-size: medium;">With 33 years of suffrage work behind her, Carrie Chapman Catt moved on to voter registration and voter education through the League of Women Voters, an organization she helped launch. (Eleanor Roosevelt was one of Catt’s protégées.) When she turned her energies back to anti-war efforts, Weiss explained, Catt was “monitored by the FBI,” possibly for the rest of her life. “Alarmed by Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in 1933, she organized Jewish support groups and lobbied the U.S. government to ease immigration restrictions for refugees.” Mrs. Catt, as she was respectfully known by many, died of a heart attack in 1947 at the age of 88 after a lifetime of service for you and me and the women of the world.</span></p><p class="graf graf--p" name="dfe0"><span style="font-size: medium;">The new century brought many “uppity, contrary women” into the public sphere....<a href="https://corneliapowell.medium.com/second-class-citizen-part-ii-that-vote-has-been-costly-301a3c4d005b"><b> [Continue reading on MEDIUM.]</b></a> Part II of V.</span></p><p class="graf graf--p" name="dfe0"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-41754359542275210912024-02-14T14:02:00.001-05:002024-02-24T14:06:13.153-05:00Love alone....<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKTbUUlQK_lmNDVcIjrCa2bfX3HWhwMA27hHsLN13-W5qUhd8lxbq9gYd_BKFhrL4YVoIlIxrfBLsQpNah74OIH-YR4M2Gr1sHglHZA_Qtr0bgULpmad_0yJHowwei9NWXK-VA3K0HnLBh4DmE8squi9VOxGWZSKu_deWfdl7Be_B75TsGjXmi2uUxortO/s600/355498591_584473677176251_2585711903835813776_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="600" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKTbUUlQK_lmNDVcIjrCa2bfX3HWhwMA27hHsLN13-W5qUhd8lxbq9gYd_BKFhrL4YVoIlIxrfBLsQpNah74OIH-YR4M2Gr1sHglHZA_Qtr0bgULpmad_0yJHowwei9NWXK-VA3K0HnLBh4DmE8squi9VOxGWZSKu_deWfdl7Be_B75TsGjXmi2uUxortO/w400-h335/355498591_584473677176251_2585711903835813776_n.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-1542925257743998472024-01-01T11:08:00.001-05:002024-01-01T11:10:20.184-05:00Marriage and the 'Prospect of Happiness'<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">.............................................</span></b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHSONeyiIuLsga2anegPIvIJP9So635s71f4ec5S_KQS5yPp2V6Dy5-UI5XyrYiIIa-vLcjHy7mi0teyyi4qN7XkFizTAoHgeEqwof3SHDEOgOP2eC6NL-pyHtXzKU-IwRlaOpNC-wiM0mVbD5H9KA5aPQkG6yuqPv0bquoKXcRuG1UoFwU8alk2Y6ajoe/s900/vasili-pukirev-the-unequal-marriage-orca-art-gallery.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="708" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHSONeyiIuLsga2anegPIvIJP9So635s71f4ec5S_KQS5yPp2V6Dy5-UI5XyrYiIIa-vLcjHy7mi0teyyi4qN7XkFizTAoHgeEqwof3SHDEOgOP2eC6NL-pyHtXzKU-IwRlaOpNC-wiM0mVbD5H9KA5aPQkG6yuqPv0bquoKXcRuG1UoFwU8alk2Y6ajoe/w315-h400/vasili-pukirev-the-unequal-marriage-orca-art-gallery.jpg" width="315" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>"The Unequal Marriage" by Vasili V. Pukirev, 1862</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">istorically,
given the patriarchal nature of most world cultures, the happy expectations
that many brides may have imagined at their wedding fell far short during their
marriage—disappointment often began before the honeymoon phase, if there was such
a thing. To cope with the lack of attention or even abuse by their husbands,
women around the globe had limited choices—especially since ill-treatment of
wives was often sanctioned by their religions and governments. “A bride,”
nineteenth-century journalist Ambrose Bierce said, “is a woman with a fine
prospect of happiness behind her.” Indeed, for eons, a married woman’s
“prospect of happiness” was a dilemma.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the middle of nineteenth-century England “marriage was the subject of much
contemporary debate,” wrote best-selling author Kate Summerscale. Divorce laws
were being investigated and reformists were “campaigning to improve the lot for
married women.” One such reformist, novelist and poet Caroline Norton, even
wrote to Queen Victoria—a happily married woman and mother—about the
“injustices of wedlock,” as shared by Summerscale:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A married woman in England has no
legal existence...her being is absorbed in that of her husband.” A wife could
not undertake legal proceedings, or keep her own earnings, or spend eons own
money as she wished. She “has no legal right even to her clothes or ornaments;
her husband may take them and sell them if he pleases.” A wife’s identity was
subsumed in that of her husband....</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And Caroline Norton should
know. “When she left her unfaithful, bullying, profligate husband in 1836,”
wrote Summerscale, “he had kept her children from her and had confiscated the
money that she earned through her writing.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a href="https://corneliapowell.medium.com/marriage-and-the-prospect-of-happiness-5f8af34b8ea2">[Continue reading this short chapter excerpt on Medium...enjoy!]</a></b></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-9449807417154776912023-10-26T16:16:00.004-04:002023-12-31T16:40:43.892-05:00Herstory<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxg7IN0Iqb_xEyt_o1BWe8chg3Ew1_1mlqszAl2xyUdZipDwqo4C5A_1OQBdvn8lzL65_1YjvZBa1tGhDA9stkjsuFyxt6ml2fYuQ0tYoJuMOVVkMHGd6rOTTLsD7DXG5n1Eju5wQokNfjb9Fj5EMCMWJ3pbNcql5P6S_lDimncmdj8FdANNgqwZQtsUpV/s2048/12JudyChicago-01-vblj-superJumbo.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxg7IN0Iqb_xEyt_o1BWe8chg3Ew1_1mlqszAl2xyUdZipDwqo4C5A_1OQBdvn8lzL65_1YjvZBa1tGhDA9stkjsuFyxt6ml2fYuQ0tYoJuMOVVkMHGd6rOTTLsD7DXG5n1Eju5wQokNfjb9Fj5EMCMWJ3pbNcql5P6S_lDimncmdj8FdANNgqwZQtsUpV/w400-h266/12JudyChicago-01-vblj-superJumbo.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Judy Chicago at the New Museum in NYC as seen in <i>The New York Times</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Judy Chicago is at it again! "The pioneering feminist artist rules the New Museum with a six-decade survey, but she shares the stage with her sisterhood." <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/arts/design/judy-chicago-new-museum-art-feminism.html?fbclid=IwAR2Zm68cGkvsLlxnZn-tjUM60NoiDNlQWTg4DkfEweV1lOWaAsHfLoaxP6Y"><b>(See Melena Ryzik's article in the NYTimes, <i>Judy Chicago Makes 'Herstory'</i>.)</b></a></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Click here for a preview of the exhibit on the <a href="https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/judy-chicago-herstory"><b>New Museum website</b></a>. (The <b>Herstory </b>exhibition has been extended until March 3, 2024.)<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-14932822071853004052023-10-02T04:00:00.010-04:002023-10-02T04:00:00.142-04:00Ann Lowe: American Couturier<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAjrRWdktXOlyOZ6GExFIgvy-GAfYV5ioxFFjNGStHVKMe24RCocxQEc1qOfCBfN1oAIIRKPhEwRorR09tP4yQ6Wn8IF2MSo0JWluduCLpwT5GOCruqUobOCgfPUpi2-hL8yRPR10d_u_0EExt06ivBTLU0H6WFkNtw_dXlUCn4_RZrliCRVXLIjskaQ4l/s1024/Ann-Lowe-Web-Logo-1024x473.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="1024" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAjrRWdktXOlyOZ6GExFIgvy-GAfYV5ioxFFjNGStHVKMe24RCocxQEc1qOfCBfN1oAIIRKPhEwRorR09tP4yQ6Wn8IF2MSo0JWluduCLpwT5GOCruqUobOCgfPUpi2-hL8yRPR10d_u_0EExt06ivBTLU0H6WFkNtw_dXlUCn4_RZrliCRVXLIjskaQ4l/w320-h148/Ann-Lowe-Web-Logo-1024x473.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Costume Exhibition at Winterthur Museum<br />Sept 9, 2023 - January 7, 2024<br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt;">“In
1964, <i>The Saturday Evening Post</i> referred to fashion designer Ann Lowe as
‘Society’s Best-Kept Secret.’ Although Lowe had been designing couture-quality
gowns for America’s most prominent debutantes, heiresses, actresses, and
society brides—including Jacqueline Kennedy, Olivia de Havilland, and Marjorie
Merriweather Post—for decades, she remained virtually unknown to the wider
public. Since then, too little recognition has been given to her influence on
American fashion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Ann Lowe’s recently emerging visibility as a
designer stands in contrast to much of her career and the countless
unrecognized Black dressmakers and designers who have contributed to American
fashion for generations, including her own grandmother and mother. She blazed a
path for others to follow and her legacy is still felt in fashion culture.”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="https://www.winterthur.org/ann-lowe-american-couturier/"><b>[Continue reading exhibition text.]</b></a></span></p></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFvwkz86I2tfAIJ3KQcQzyMWuHr6wTlbhlq4c_b2xSKFoRSm1mz-wn7LSypkAoo6rScyCIyS65vcaJJcdjzUs1pjcihvYEVtVuyFLwPaHhGUxctnBjtCxzNO5KTVVd82Oli1BT9Wmp_3i4_XRZj3foMNlrvn6mqoRonJfnOYmnqXUwehZiN_l4lwal-fy/s314/fa50e4f337e838ee8d90784633dbbae7.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="236" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFvwkz86I2tfAIJ3KQcQzyMWuHr6wTlbhlq4c_b2xSKFoRSm1mz-wn7LSypkAoo6rScyCIyS65vcaJJcdjzUs1pjcihvYEVtVuyFLwPaHhGUxctnBjtCxzNO5KTVVd82Oli1BT9Wmp_3i4_XRZj3foMNlrvn6mqoRonJfnOYmnqXUwehZiN_l4lwal-fy/s1600/fa50e4f337e838ee8d90784633dbbae7.jpg" width="236" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jacqueline Kennedy in her wedding gown <br />designed by Ann Lowe, 1953</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">My 2011 article published in Atlanta's <i>Season</i> magazine, "What Does a Fashion Icon Wear to Her Own Wedding/s," shares what Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy really wanted her wedding gown to look like! Here's an excerpt:</b></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; text-indent: 0.5in;">D</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">uring the presidential state
visit to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>
in the spring of 1961, “more than a million Parisians lined the parade route,
chanting ‘Jacqui! Jacqui!’ as the Kennedys entered <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city></st1:place>,” Kathleen Craughwell-Varda recalled in
<i>Looking for Jackie: American Fashion
Icons</i>. As the charismatic wife of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> president, Jackie Kennedy’s chic,
elegant style—copied by women around the world—even won over the toughest
fashion critics...the French!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;">However, the woman who revolutionized
a stodgy fashion industry and headlined the best-dressed list for years had </span><i style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;">not</i><span style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;"> worn the wedding gown of her choice.
Jacqueline (Jock-leen) Bouvier was a young bride in 1953 when it was typical
for the bride’s mother to plan the wedding, dictate or greatly influence what her
daughter would wear (and frequently whom she would marry), and basically run the
show.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;">Of course, the headstrong Jackie
was not just any bride of the fifties. She was the future wife of one of the
wealthiest men in the country and one whose father had great political plans
for his oldest son’s future. So not only did the </span><st1:place style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Newport</st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;"> wedding become a huge Kennedy-orchestrated,
high-society spectacle (instead of the small affair the bride and her family
wanted), but the bride’s gown reflected what the </span><i style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;">groom</i><span style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;"> requested. “Jackie wanted to wear a sleek, modern gown, in
keeping with the pared-down style she preferred,” Craughwell-Varda explained,
“but Jack persuaded her to select something more traditional and
old-fashioned.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;">The bride’s mother chose <b>Ann
Lowe, an African American designer in </b></span><st1:place style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><b>New
York City</b></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;"> “who catered to society women.” From her
workshop on </span><st1:address style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;" w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">Lexington Avenue</st1:street></st1:address><span style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0.5in;">,
the designer created an elaborate gown of ivory silk taffeta with a portrait
neckline, off-the-shoulder cap sleeves and big ruffled swirls on the full
skirt. Jackie also wore the long rose point lace veil worn by her mother and
grandmother attached to their wax orange blossom wreath. Perhaps the only time the
glamorous Jackie looked “traditional.” (If Jackie had gotten to choose, don’t
you think her gown would have been very Givenchy-ish? And with all that Kennedy
money at her young fingertips, perhaps she would have gone directly to the master
French couturier himself!)</span></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyf8BffQ7GS8bzRSlWabqMouuq9bw4fw_iyNKCM-gg1dPxgjJY0Wpcq8hRFhFFa21bC9Vn5NWwEoZAp5CNDFHWCFHXFXL4VohY8_pahs3oukBYnmbLtgodMNqMeP76bVXhbw9FfhZ7DkpbY0FUtu8Wy1-DsnwWmIB8kuAl89JUm0fpYl24L5hFINlmTtRb/s1098/Elysee%20Palace%20reception.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="736" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyf8BffQ7GS8bzRSlWabqMouuq9bw4fw_iyNKCM-gg1dPxgjJY0Wpcq8hRFhFFa21bC9Vn5NWwEoZAp5CNDFHWCFHXFXL4VohY8_pahs3oukBYnmbLtgodMNqMeP76bVXhbw9FfhZ7DkpbY0FUtu8Wy1-DsnwWmIB8kuAl89JUm0fpYl24L5hFINlmTtRb/s320/Elysee%20Palace%20reception.jpg" width="214" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Jacqueline Kennedy wearing Oleg Cassini, <br />appointed as her "exclusive couturier,"<br />Elysee Palace reception in Paris,1961</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-5980213281642252122023-09-30T14:12:00.000-04:002023-09-30T14:12:29.108-04:00...and more love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOAtd18xeSZg_lZt8eZXSdpxfRUyED09nCslRqZS4tzRMtpypexBwosaDmdYTN1SrOaHqcSkefl6Juk4bWQEWZUCoGKp1Dfcoo_uvjYvykHdXtyAqOut1e8GkJzm20WjeSx8uU8fy2kKtzrBlKjWxQ91ECYLhpDZZI8Dtq3wXwpyUvgiUx1MJofL2dUQ/s526/332385975_1258122544779280_799698734030527116_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOAtd18xeSZg_lZt8eZXSdpxfRUyED09nCslRqZS4tzRMtpypexBwosaDmdYTN1SrOaHqcSkefl6Juk4bWQEWZUCoGKp1Dfcoo_uvjYvykHdXtyAqOut1e8GkJzm20WjeSx8uU8fy2kKtzrBlKjWxQ91ECYLhpDZZI8Dtq3wXwpyUvgiUx1MJofL2dUQ/s320/332385975_1258122544779280_799698734030527116_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p> <br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-39587459022853992022023-09-20T15:48:00.000-04:002023-09-20T15:48:49.470-04:00A Wedding Classic Revisited<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDI5F0Z7HGA46oQlKjWJZ3xifUBNACqExQXsOSho-yzi0W4G2bOeT9BhGwOtAV-HDiUbx8GQjNAOjpIvSexHRotRtfMVq0CNK7AVxwPPnhOhRKAlHc_z7aBM8ixpSqRgyijAHvv03dMUvap2pVtwaqdoW23s1oiLOh21othbVICYGUKBzDFkcXiDO1GD0U/s640/from%20GETTY%20IMAGES.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDI5F0Z7HGA46oQlKjWJZ3xifUBNACqExQXsOSho-yzi0W4G2bOeT9BhGwOtAV-HDiUbx8GQjNAOjpIvSexHRotRtfMVq0CNK7AVxwPPnhOhRKAlHc_z7aBM8ixpSqRgyijAHvv03dMUvap2pVtwaqdoW23s1oiLOh21othbVICYGUKBzDFkcXiDO1GD0U/w400-h266/from%20GETTY%20IMAGES.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">from GETTY IMAGES</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">“O</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">n
May 19, 2018, the royal nuptials of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made history
and broke traditions, with the bride Meghan Markle’s wedding dress almost
serving as an allegory,” Fawnia Soo Hoo wrote in her recent article, <b><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/08/meghan-markle-wedding-dress">“Meghan
Markle’s Wedding Dress Nods to Hollywood and American Royalty,” for </a><i><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/08/meghan-markle-wedding-dress">Vanity Fair</a>.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">I love that this </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: left;">“allegorical</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: left;">”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">wedding, this extraordinary couple, and Meghan</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: left;">’s sensitive and intuitive creativity is being revisited in such a beautiful article. Fawnia chats with the gown</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: left;">’</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: left;">s designer, Clare Waight Keller, about its inspiration and her collaboration with the bride, noting other memorable wedding gowns....</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: left;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“There was
that sense of playfulness and modernity and doing things in a different way,”
Waight Keller says. “And I really feel that—for the dress, particularly—that
sense of it could be something that really represented her, her spirit, her
modernity, and the freshness....”</span><span style="font-family: courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/08/meghan-markle-wedding-dress">Click on the article here</a>...</b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMDrWlbXn0S1zq8mcf3xi47T06-mt647qNZF_3s4IQedzweuTvfaF8eoogDqa4-a05uGmVaIdDc2D529DZ66MsOJjPSY3goADfgokIhBNN8Otu0_xLWogEKYu9s_EYwpjAZfR6GLrX1MynuuM575H11p0sK4ifxIOpJeD_B3Fu3CuDuuPFq7J99E5EhwPP/s962/4C73C3CC00000578-5749973-The_Archbishop_of_Canterbury_smiles_as_Prince_Harry_and_Meghan_M-a-91_1526826103362.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="962" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMDrWlbXn0S1zq8mcf3xi47T06-mt647qNZF_3s4IQedzweuTvfaF8eoogDqa4-a05uGmVaIdDc2D529DZ66MsOJjPSY3goADfgokIhBNN8Otu0_xLWogEKYu9s_EYwpjAZfR6GLrX1MynuuM575H11p0sK4ifxIOpJeD_B3Fu3CuDuuPFq7J99E5EhwPP/w400-h291/4C73C3CC00000578-5749973-The_Archbishop_of_Canterbury_smiles_as_Prince_Harry_and_Meghan_M-a-91_1526826103362.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">from GETTY IMAGES</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Also revisit the article I wrote a few days after that memorable wedding in 2018 and posted here: </span><b><a href="https://www.corneliapowell.com/2018/05/a-day-of-gracious-gestures-and-love.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">“A Day of Gracious Gestures and Love Power</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">”</span></a>....</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>The radiant bride, in designer-sculpted shimmering white silk....</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNL-6XKiKyNL4hHJHlg6PPb-XLJg0FyvAFP5q-x5Pc4kJGXV8iy5F_wjLtraGOrakUJYt_Vd5IIX4Q6GMUUpIqzy7yYy8J_hRrNSyNNf_4Ak7erhb6aK7-Cgu4BB7BwOw_c6YZynklqrysKkqWdrIWJBR3j6juiK6DHup_4UGAgYfjlIZ2IpH0e4o7YAV/s1200/Ddjoiv8WAAAg0dW.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="1200" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNL-6XKiKyNL4hHJHlg6PPb-XLJg0FyvAFP5q-x5Pc4kJGXV8iy5F_wjLtraGOrakUJYt_Vd5IIX4Q6GMUUpIqzy7yYy8J_hRrNSyNNf_4Ak7erhb6aK7-Cgu4BB7BwOw_c6YZynklqrysKkqWdrIWJBR3j6juiK6DHup_4UGAgYfjlIZ2IpH0e4o7YAV/w400-h211/Ddjoiv8WAAAg0dW.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">from GETTY IMAGES</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In addition, I</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">’</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ve written about Harry and Meghan</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">’</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">s spiritual union in a section of a book I've been working on for many years, using this lovely quote from a friend of the bride: </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Meghan’s friend Vicky Tsai, after attending the wedding ceremony,
confirmed: <b>“It felt like a moment where the world paused and celebrated love.”</b></span></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-30184345327565851602023-08-26T16:48:00.005-04:002023-08-27T13:29:15.308-04:00Women's Equality Day<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfK-WUr3GKEGYLgOLL29t3rP7xzNbWdGEuSfaLAomoGN4FwBA8AIFTjuQJNCEO-Pqm0dAaD2R7eeHPMHhFBj79Zg9du1AvpN7SUNAib6OHjH8ZH6katgsNe_3-2W232G9Oh9UzCTluwmsFeg7KCYzEPhzsQQG-NmPI-mMMpcs2dbB0QeULzROLH-ZjM6Y/s467/SenecaFalls.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="467" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfK-WUr3GKEGYLgOLL29t3rP7xzNbWdGEuSfaLAomoGN4FwBA8AIFTjuQJNCEO-Pqm0dAaD2R7eeHPMHhFBj79Zg9du1AvpN7SUNAib6OHjH8ZH6katgsNe_3-2W232G9Oh9UzCTluwmsFeg7KCYzEPhzsQQG-NmPI-mMMpcs2dbB0QeULzROLH-ZjM6Y/w400-h281/SenecaFalls.png" width="400" /></a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The first Woman's Rights Convention</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>July 1848, Seneca Falls, New York</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-size: large;">Between August 18 (when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920) and </strong><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-size: large;">August 26 (w</strong><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-size: large;">hen it was signed into law, giving women the vote...a date now known as</strong><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-size: large;"> “Women’s Equality Day”),</strong><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-size: large;"> I posted a five-part essay titled “Second-Class Citizen” on MEDIUM…sharing a little this ‘n that of women’s history.</strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-size: large;"><br /></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://corneliapowell.medium.com/second-class-citizen-37510b4e4b76">To begin the series, </a></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://corneliapowell.medium.com/second-class-citizen-37510b4e4b76">click here for Part I: <i>'Remember the Ladies'</i></a> </strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"></strong></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-2548319608389182592023-07-31T10:18:00.011-04:002023-08-11T12:10:27.531-04:00The Princess, The Feminist & The Grown-Up Bride<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_UmMzNJdmMvFqHU-hqNEiPplFxgmtjyeO2pX6j2fzl1e0xA1ov8tEDI0G7bcXD8tNtlMjip1xbZ1DSrfPqXxJ1-GCQ2W3UyMXOUk8rOYrYvJeJu8sZabWMholxNThcnvUkgjO36mDmzvtg4aJb_eQU3tqj5fhmZcnenQCL_jDFosxg17_RT5st1pCs6nQ/s800/94b1c8873e9df4487ef48a96f9901dcc.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="800" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_UmMzNJdmMvFqHU-hqNEiPplFxgmtjyeO2pX6j2fzl1e0xA1ov8tEDI0G7bcXD8tNtlMjip1xbZ1DSrfPqXxJ1-GCQ2W3UyMXOUk8rOYrYvJeJu8sZabWMholxNThcnvUkgjO36mDmzvtg4aJb_eQU3tqj5fhmZcnenQCL_jDFosxg17_RT5st1pCs6nQ/w320-h232/94b1c8873e9df4487ef48a96f9901dcc.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Royal Wedding, 31 July 1981, Lady Diana Spencer and Charles, Prince of Wales</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><span style="font-size: medium;">n my book, </span><i style="font-size: large;">The
End of the Fairy-Tale Bride: For Better or Worse, How Princess Diana Rescued
the Great White Wedding</i><span style="font-size: medium;">, I looked at the social and historical influences
of the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1981. The
event was a cultural phenomenon. For the first time in history, nearly a
billion people came together at the same moment to witness the same marvel, televised
in ‘living color’—could such a spectacle not help but shake up our global
psyche? We gathered around our clunky television sets as if anticipating some
long-ago promise fulfilled. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With its
reassuring sense of order and thrilling dose of pageantry—courtly rituals and
symbolic pomp, ceremonial uniforms and polished splendor—this royal wedding was
like a soothing balm for a society reeling from the rebellious upheavals of the
1960s and ‘70s. The wedding came at the beginning of a decade that saw
Reaganomics, Thatcherism, pseudo-Christian politics, and a “greed is good”
mentality attempt to put a lid on those earlier outspoken youthful voices,
female voices, Black voices railing against a tone-deaf, out-of-touch, vengeful
society. These latest patriarchal forces may have quieted those voices of
dissent, but the revolutionary spirit remained, laying groundwork for the next
uprising of heart energy. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>W</span><span>eddings, especially
royal ones, can indeed be profound bringers of change. Although Charles’ and
Diana’s wedding played its part in gilding the last two decades of the
twentieth century with a superficial gloss, it had a more enduring role,
something of the heart—evident even before the glittering wedding dust had
settled. The regal ceremony stirred the wonder of some deeply feminine ethos
around the world with its fairy-tale longings and a beautiful, lit-from-within
bride…a heart-centered young woman (a future revolutionary) becoming a real
princess of a legendary kingdom at a time when a new wave of feminism was
rising—which seemed to punctuate its own irony with a mythological purpose.
(Was an ancient archetype for a new age rising as well?)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><a href="https://corneliapowell.medium.com/the-princess-the-feminist-the-grown-up-bride-92520a53905e"><b>[Continue reading this book-in-progress excerpt </b></a></span></span><a href="https://corneliapowell.medium.com/the-princess-the-feminist-the-grown-up-bride-92520a53905e" style="font-family: georgia; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b>on MEDIUM...posted with a rare photo from my former shop.]</b></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-79781499027678325322023-07-19T11:07:00.004-04:002023-07-19T11:10:32.172-04:00Was It the Death of the Heart?<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsiJlxg_5_3EuDCajBSPv-ep4LLXAjcvilnZ9CgpJ3c0aLxqxKgb7y-wEeBRoLcZ72wIh18t68eE_nnHQM14S8pBx4yfTh54jx-Pvw73tLHFK5kABZdTDHk8uicYfa82j1fuKMukvJewbx59YPBNDBIPCK7MpePQw-wv7sMV-sEU06PYySqCDWWW-dOu1G/s705/E5OdoAjWUAYcdzo.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="705" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsiJlxg_5_3EuDCajBSPv-ep4LLXAjcvilnZ9CgpJ3c0aLxqxKgb7y-wEeBRoLcZ72wIh18t68eE_nnHQM14S8pBx4yfTh54jx-Pvw73tLHFK5kABZdTDHk8uicYfa82j1fuKMukvJewbx59YPBNDBIPCK7MpePQw-wv7sMV-sEU06PYySqCDWWW-dOu1G/w400-h266/E5OdoAjWUAYcdzo.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>Diana, Princess of Wales, commemorative statue <br />in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace in London<br /><br /><br /></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“W</span><span style="font-size: medium;">hen the royal family enfolded Diana, they thought they had got a
rather dim girl from the landowning Norfolk aristocracy—not exactly the stuff
of revolution. They could not have known that she would be transformed into an
international superstar who would make their lives hell.” This from an article,
“Diana’s Britain,” by the editors at <i>Newsweek</i> magazine published the
week after the princess’ funeral. Some feminists of the time were also fooled
by “the mouse that roared.” British journalist Beatrix Campbell wondered how
more conservative Britain could become when this pretty, inexperienced girl
from old landed gentry married into the stale confines of royalty. Calling her
wedding gown “a shroud,” she feared Diana would disappear within a dusty
patriarchal construct. But Campbell and others began to see it differently.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://corneliapowell.medium.com/was-it-the-death-of-the-heart-b1d9667ec62"><b>continue reading this book-in-progress excerpt on MEDIUM</b></a>]</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-44777866637746280912023-06-13T11:51:00.005-04:002023-06-13T11:57:43.666-04:00One Woman's Story {Ruby Ross Wood}<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrUNdAWx2N-RqXYqND3Jw433hlalghOdBJl2lExg1oHy7RSDVxk5_1gYxDpJStxrvtue0YHQ9ujiYyskXNKPJUc4E9s9lb844cRCW-oOsDNapUg_gHSqqEtiJY6UF8MZ2Uo3YI8vvxSMHlonfU6zlL37WBtTyyBfKV46xzUoGPSPk3aaX62cBZVlIKjA/s500/14038168511689423719.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrUNdAWx2N-RqXYqND3Jw433hlalghOdBJl2lExg1oHy7RSDVxk5_1gYxDpJStxrvtue0YHQ9ujiYyskXNKPJUc4E9s9lb844cRCW-oOsDNapUg_gHSqqEtiJY6UF8MZ2Uo3YI8vvxSMHlonfU6zlL37WBtTyyBfKV46xzUoGPSPk3aaX62cBZVlIKjA/w400-h209/14038168511689423719.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: left;">“</span>Ruby Ross Wood exemplies the growth of the American business woman—a self-made success </span><b style="font-family: arial;">before she could vote</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> and a pioneer in establishing interior design as a career in what is now a multi-million dollar business annually.</span><span style="font-family: arial;">”<br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQlFlk6KG778gKuRy_cuxDq70PpCl5FksPweN7un3CGyx-YewRWhZ2n9P7ZmegNkLc9omYCIgmwOGN6Da-txslV9vuM-EDBD9_EOXehq3z4G7SIbvpq3nkbE2iPAm-dV87FMX-G0LKs3l8oNZQRqS-qXJsQr6KU1Tk1vMam5jWWwWSTeqkFCg65QSHA/s280/AHC.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="87" data-original-width="280" height="87" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQlFlk6KG778gKuRy_cuxDq70PpCl5FksPweN7un3CGyx-YewRWhZ2n9P7ZmegNkLc9omYCIgmwOGN6Da-txslV9vuM-EDBD9_EOXehq3z4G7SIbvpq3nkbE2iPAm-dV87FMX-G0LKs3l8oNZQRqS-qXJsQr6KU1Tk1vMam5jWWwWSTeqkFCg65QSHA/s1600/AHC.png" width="280" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/exhibitions/the-road-to-good-taste-the-design-of-ruby-ross-wood/?mc_cid=72fa143ce5&fbclid=IwAR0PIi6_ePeyzsO1iAq_GxcldrTdtPQ_BaquQ0zxNUJzDv8XG6B7lXuXnfM"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Road to Good Taste: The Design Life of Ruby Ross Wood</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">” is a new exhibition at the Atlanta History Center.</span></span></a> </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">It presents the life and work of one of America's most influential interior designers. From her early days as a journalist to opening her own firm, Ruby Ross Wood's work was always characterized by eclectic combinations of furniture, bold color choices, and impeccable taste."</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IGLoFs-p8mdVBFPnGxeuy-FPcScT5lxFcHi21H54MVPwhgpILK3FJfD7-vRUNG9bt5AKyEY84XYq_sN59unrd7EFro4bSiaP3YwacXDJKte1iG4DM4SWNHh-o0G1NEAiiEbuyzVWd9HZ1P8XoPJbOOXDJ4ykG5Ou1wGPoh2dNehQLj28pnKYWxWVww/s760/RubyRossWood.LittleIpswich.LivingRoom.SolitaireTable-760x696.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="760" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IGLoFs-p8mdVBFPnGxeuy-FPcScT5lxFcHi21H54MVPwhgpILK3FJfD7-vRUNG9bt5AKyEY84XYq_sN59unrd7EFro4bSiaP3YwacXDJKte1iG4DM4SWNHh-o0G1NEAiiEbuyzVWd9HZ1P8XoPJbOOXDJ4ykG5Ou1wGPoh2dNehQLj28pnKYWxWVww/s320/RubyRossWood.LittleIpswich.LivingRoom.SolitaireTable-760x696.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ruby Ross Wood, c1939</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-60818400775261552102023-05-06T16:40:00.000-04:002023-05-06T16:40:41.723-04:00A Gown of History<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijGGUyc28Yy9OpLDcC0L9bhBgcjr1EYtFbUD_eMoPHc2vsLXP50xlwsplkclgZhZdGnSsAcNWyRDz2V3ka-_VHLFkbqpXgOyZYW7ptZ9teMubbpszi-MTx2Ge1O0vq2zUZuPjYRFUtNCJ3LFUAGBxZwucy2x_a2tY8O_QDbwbZ2QHDikU70nXyfQmGBg/s1024/untitled.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijGGUyc28Yy9OpLDcC0L9bhBgcjr1EYtFbUD_eMoPHc2vsLXP50xlwsplkclgZhZdGnSsAcNWyRDz2V3ka-_VHLFkbqpXgOyZYW7ptZ9teMubbpszi-MTx2Ge1O0vq2zUZuPjYRFUtNCJ3LFUAGBxZwucy2x_a2tY8O_QDbwbZ2QHDikU70nXyfQmGBg/w400-h300/untitled.png" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>In honor of the coronation
of King Charles III, looking back at his mother’s ceremonial gown: “The Story
Behind Queen Elizabeth II's Dazzling—and Highly Symbolic—Coronation Gown”…</b><a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/queen-elizabeth-coronation-gown" style="font-weight: bold;">an
article by Emily Chan for <i>Vogue</i></a><b>. </b>[reprinted below]</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span></b><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large; text-align: left;">s preparations were underway for Queen Elizabeth II’s
coronation in 1953, Her Majesty only had one couturier in mind to design her
gown for the historic occasion: Norman Hartnell. The British dressmaker had of
course created her beautifully embroidered wedding dress—made from duchesse
satin that the Queen famously purchased with ration coupons—for her marriage to
Prince Philip in 1947.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhREqMWU_UYZ9K3oKQpCrc9xwkScFAONgVaxbuY1L7aUj54o_e-Esxi09nxcN7atQ5UWjrhIgknGQ3jJ9tF1I1CF36jnroy-YBabJ8113w9wubLuiYPmCbrJh62wFzazGOezgM7cWSCoJm00VvtoaV13ZR9uQtXjZW9ZKPPAU0K3EgJ_YqQEDcwx-aaqA/s1652/entering%20for%20coronation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1652" data-original-width="1101" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhREqMWU_UYZ9K3oKQpCrc9xwkScFAONgVaxbuY1L7aUj54o_e-Esxi09nxcN7atQ5UWjrhIgknGQ3jJ9tF1I1CF36jnroy-YBabJ8113w9wubLuiYPmCbrJh62wFzazGOezgM7cWSCoJm00VvtoaV13ZR9uQtXjZW9ZKPPAU0K3EgJ_YqQEDcwx-aaqA/s320/entering%20for%20coronation.jpg" width="213" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;">“One October afternoon in 1952, Her Majesty the Queen desired
me to make for her the dress to be worn at her Coronation,” Hartnell recalled
in his 1955 autobiography, <i>Silver and Gold</i>. “I can scarcely remember what I
murmured in reply. In simple conversational tones, the Queen went on to express
her wishes. Her Majesty required that the dress should conform in line to that
of her wedding dress and that the material should be white satin.”</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Soon afterwards, Hartnell submitted eight designs to fulfill
the brief, the first of which was based on Queen Victoria’s coronation gown—a
white satin dress with gold embroidery. Other sketches featured the Tudor rose
and oak leaves, alongside one design based around the Madonna. Elizabeth opted
for the eighth design, which incorporated the national emblems of the United
Kingdom: the rose (England), thistle (Scotland), shamrock (Northern Ireland),
and daffodil (Wales)—although the latter was changed to the leek, the official
national emblem of Wales.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDCRjbODRKmyRyEiCjo7l63JUFCM2JTxPLKlL82MBLKoBAdV2t6oeOu9EkGKJq8tEQiE_DRJ1rh-urN2svM6wsDbO9Zav1W6A2oEGlOvZyieOcKqium-DLhepjUerdOD8u2EAn4qehn3AIPzmPqwqHzd3GMSthTV7zRfATCWV7kLlYrnqhDDtT-MzNw/s628/iu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="628" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDCRjbODRKmyRyEiCjo7l63JUFCM2JTxPLKlL82MBLKoBAdV2t6oeOu9EkGKJq8tEQiE_DRJ1rh-urN2svM6wsDbO9Zav1W6A2oEGlOvZyieOcKqium-DLhepjUerdOD8u2EAn4qehn3AIPzmPqwqHzd3GMSthTV7zRfATCWV7kLlYrnqhDDtT-MzNw/s320/iu.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Queen requested several other modifications to the
design, including that the embroidery be done using pastel-colored silks,
rather than just silver. Her Majesty also asked for national symbols of
Commonwealth countries to be added, including the acacia (Australia), fern (New
Zealand), maple leaf (Canada), protea (South Africa), lotus (India), and wheat,
cotton, and jute (Pakistan).</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">The finished coronation gown featured a sweetheart neckline
and a delicate lattice design, with the emblems—decorated with seed pearls,
sequins, and crystals—separated by heavily embellished scalloped borders
comprising gold bugle beads, diamantés, and pearls. Hartnell also included a
surprise for Her Majesty: a four-leafed shamrock on the left side of the skirt
as a symbol of good luck.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz1vnOJz1Ra7A8BmS7bj8VvSc3e_GVGbHlZO8E1inosCmJicNp_NmS153Kf5xjYN5R0MB4RyqWdWvOCGUH76Z6-DSjPvCsikj69e4HMxPoGMaKowN_E-3DvcfvHBtFjgp0j8p55HslUdqipThbZ2rKqvh6_wPZ_KvcZKdEzUBFDlnc-leheHBVOlfJkw/s999/Queen_Elizabeth_II_on_her_Coronation_Day_(cropped).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz1vnOJz1Ra7A8BmS7bj8VvSc3e_GVGbHlZO8E1inosCmJicNp_NmS153Kf5xjYN5R0MB4RyqWdWvOCGUH76Z6-DSjPvCsikj69e4HMxPoGMaKowN_E-3DvcfvHBtFjgp0j8p55HslUdqipThbZ2rKqvh6_wPZ_KvcZKdEzUBFDlnc-leheHBVOlfJkw/s320/Queen_Elizabeth_II_on_her_Coronation_Day_(cropped).jpg" width="256" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;">All in all, the coronation dress weighed a hefty 30 pounds,
or 13 kilograms, which combined with the Robe of Estate—which was made of deep
purple velvet and an ermine trim, and took 3,500 hours to make—and St Edward’s
Crown, was quite the weight for Her Majesty to bear. To finish off her historic
outfit, the Queen asked French shoemaker Roger Vivier to create a pair of gold
pumps featuring a jewel-encrusted heel and fleurs-de-lis pattern on the upper
that matched the motif on both St Edward’s Crown and the Imperial State Crown
(worn at the end of the ceremony). When it came to her jewelry, Elizabeth wore
a dazzling diamond necklace and earrings that were originally made for Queen
Victoria.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">A long-time repeat wearer, the Queen actually went on to
wear the Coronation gown a further six times, including at the opening of
parliament in New Zealand and Australia in 1954. It’s an attitude towards
fashion that the late monarch has certainly passed down to her son, King
Charles III, as he is crowned at Westminster Abbey on Saturday.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoQ2INTZUIA2uacnU9ZQcTrr-ExNdyWfPgS--ppBvElGATBNAkAhwi2ax_PpHrYGFEBOdpOkSqvnVJKseuDgD90D3x4c6-HC8txx-5DHRKhC9YEiT1Zny_7KPCnd5EtVAlCq8RzMuRtE1FRVHnJk0w9ZkJ8v76GVIru5uSPMSRl3tBVt7PBiDDj_9Tlg/s640/Queen_Elizabeth_Coronation-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoQ2INTZUIA2uacnU9ZQcTrr-ExNdyWfPgS--ppBvElGATBNAkAhwi2ax_PpHrYGFEBOdpOkSqvnVJKseuDgD90D3x4c6-HC8txx-5DHRKhC9YEiT1Zny_7KPCnd5EtVAlCq8RzMuRtE1FRVHnJk0w9ZkJ8v76GVIru5uSPMSRl3tBVt7PBiDDj_9Tlg/w400-h200/Queen_Elizabeth_Coronation-7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-3055962437229811482023-03-20T16:37:00.000-04:002023-03-20T16:37:21.235-04:00A Once Shimmering Wedding Gown Lost at Sea<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1bB4Ixq8EljvBdngyZNRUFr0jOIvnQ9MscsVAe9QHSX4HzDWv7KRIbKz6A1R2Lgeixa7cBYl9mg1zsZ1lGUhg8ynfe8Xqc77zhpWZUtAPlQZkN61hYXmX3TfGd5rGmMq1ZbZEOyEsZ1coGrjS7vx9lxIhvJdKopM1aePM0X9U2DyQzlsxsyuBO6gQA/s995/Objecten-De-Trouwjurk-donkere-achtergrond-c-provincie-Noord-Holland-Kees-Zwaan-ingekort-768x995.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1bB4Ixq8EljvBdngyZNRUFr0jOIvnQ9MscsVAe9QHSX4HzDWv7KRIbKz6A1R2Lgeixa7cBYl9mg1zsZ1lGUhg8ynfe8Xqc77zhpWZUtAPlQZkN61hYXmX3TfGd5rGmMq1ZbZEOyEsZ1coGrjS7vx9lxIhvJdKopM1aePM0X9U2DyQzlsxsyuBO6gQA/s320/Objecten-De-Trouwjurk-donkere-achtergrond-c-provincie-Noord-Holland-Kees-Zwaan-ingekort-768x995.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span><b><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></div>“If
it was worn as a wedding dress,” explained the Museum of Kaap Skil in the Netherlands about an extraordinary vintage gown on display, “the
bride would have been the dazzling centrepiece of the marriage ceremony.”</b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">ll brides want to have a lovely </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">‘glow’ on their wedding day, but the gown of this particular bride in question is from the 17th century and was lost at sea for 350 years. More from the museum:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>“At
first sight, this appears to a brown-coloured gown </i>[image above]<i> but this would not have been
the original colour. The dress was most probably made of lightly coloured silk
(possibly white or cream) and the whole surface was covered with silver
decorations. These consisted of small silver discs woven into the silk in the
shape of love knots.</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: italic;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgilG0687e4uYwPeWNrRoI-9Wj1jeskcSVdXQNwkP1i1Vmqy9ygy3bsnLTJ_lWobO4LkzNM_CH6Fps7AwmEsI6LsKP5F7jtWIaMrcssGwLhtFF5If67pSP2KSSMTW_PZwbsgrTPt1u1sS-GatMzw5S3fYOlFfEKSMcmx7DyKkuBSUYprKP4yybX-hk9mw/s780/230216163543-08-palmwood-shipwreck-finds-gallery-exlarge-169.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="780" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgilG0687e4uYwPeWNrRoI-9Wj1jeskcSVdXQNwkP1i1Vmqy9ygy3bsnLTJ_lWobO4LkzNM_CH6Fps7AwmEsI6LsKP5F7jtWIaMrcssGwLhtFF5If67pSP2KSSMTW_PZwbsgrTPt1u1sS-GatMzw5S3fYOlFfEKSMcmx7DyKkuBSUYprKP4yybX-hk9mw/s320/230216163543-08-palmwood-shipwreck-finds-gallery-exlarge-169.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">With the woven silver discs and embroidered patterns of
silver thread it must have been, literally and figuratively, a dazzling dress!”</span></i><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><i><br /></i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyc3RJlN8Qrmt4F_gtqNiiTBZXIo7AkBPCUcMnOZVOWOt0sceDJeGVUonzyR6WSKWFXkJl1x39C3wKY_zxuj0xQFB0ilDW34j7OPkTrtiunLbF2qpApAbqSa6nOfUiEsczaAcJGHON4H0JstU6tyTrZkOrD9zNCeSRL4fW79KO1u2qvyVmNB7Tn_T6-Q/s433/Anne%20of%20Denmark%20c17thcentury.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="276" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyc3RJlN8Qrmt4F_gtqNiiTBZXIo7AkBPCUcMnOZVOWOt0sceDJeGVUonzyR6WSKWFXkJl1x39C3wKY_zxuj0xQFB0ilDW34j7OPkTrtiunLbF2qpApAbqSa6nOfUiEsczaAcJGHON4H0JstU6tyTrZkOrD9zNCeSRL4fW79KO1u2qvyVmNB7Tn_T6-Q/s320/Anne%20of%20Denmark%20c17thcentury.jpg" width="204" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Painting of Anne of Denmark <br />by John de Critz the Elder that shows<br /> the silhouette of 17th century gowns...<br />the shape of the shipwrecked treasure!</b></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b>..........................................</b></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>To learn more of the story, this from <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/world/dutch-palmwood-shipwreck-finds-scn/index.html">Ashley Strickland of CNN</a>: </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>In
1660, a ship carrying a treasure trove of luxury goods sank off the coast of Texel,
the largest island in the North Sea.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Nearly
four centuries later, little remained of the wooden unidentified Dutch merchant
ship. But as the silt and sand covering the wreck washed away, broken chests
began to appear in 2010. Four years later, divers retrieved the chests and
brought them to the surface.</b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Inside
were remarkable objects, the likes of which had never been seen before,
according to researchers at the Museum Kaap Skil in the Netherlands, where the
exclusive collection of items are on display.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The
chests were full of clothing, textiles, silverware, leather book bindings and
other goods that likely belonged to people from the highest social classes centuries
ago.</b></span></i></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Some
of the most stunning items include two virtually intact lavish gowns — a silk
dress and another one interwoven with pieces of silver that was likely a
wedding dress. Few textiles or clothing from the 17th century remain preserved
today, and it's even more rare to find them in shipwrecks because fabric decays
so quickly.</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>..........................................</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://kaapskil.nl/en/discover/collection-highlights/the-wedding-dress-from-the-palmwood-wreck/"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span><span style="font-size: large;">lick here for a seven-minute video of museum experts speaking about the two gowns found in the shipwreck.</span></b></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>..................................................................................</b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzYEJm6BIuH6c6N_1pvwSV9CORSeHMdDKiUkaXGWDQzGZP5H_rJKei133u_Iop6smlU82ECKpUaLdGUi_F7XwkByeg7huYeKFI58X_YHCKwBaNDsehmAhgEWj3PL3cyDE6oaKTP5vVm4ImPLXAF3BEnipjPB8H-EWmQZGKHeRoD6xvkrV1_zKcax2Pw/s960/Claire%20n%20Jamie%20wedding.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="960" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzYEJm6BIuH6c6N_1pvwSV9CORSeHMdDKiUkaXGWDQzGZP5H_rJKei133u_Iop6smlU82ECKpUaLdGUi_F7XwkByeg7huYeKFI58X_YHCKwBaNDsehmAhgEWj3PL3cyDE6oaKTP5vVm4ImPLXAF3BEnipjPB8H-EWmQZGKHeRoD6xvkrV1_zKcax2Pw/s320/Claire%20n%20Jamie%20wedding.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Wedding scene from <i>Outlander</i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-size: large;">For more on shimmering wedding dresses,</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://www.corneliapowell.com/2016/12/a-womans-radiance.html">visit my webpage from 2016 featuring the 18th-century era gown created by <i>Outlander</i> costume</a> designer Terry Dresbach for Claire Randall to wear for her wedding with Jamie Fraser. (Hint: bits of iridescent mica were woven into the fabric to catch the candlelight!)</span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-15894402015097401072023-03-08T13:38:00.054-05:002023-03-13T15:12:25.805-04:00Every Day is Women's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHAOsduVLjpNydN3KIml4PeK59pK16gboPtPCNrz_JrTzWJEhBv_VK6B2Vs4Pi8dRAIrTXXHVdRIn-VWb3hbPgeror2Za7bqgHF_RtnjaYS5oZaO8CWhYtljOX976LLOCIgTTDY7JSIj1UC_hiWIhfI9vv3YnTCkm71lbyInB96qvleWog02fbW7fgw/s526/333047790_1299275827288745_8316170614046029079_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHAOsduVLjpNydN3KIml4PeK59pK16gboPtPCNrz_JrTzWJEhBv_VK6B2Vs4Pi8dRAIrTXXHVdRIn-VWb3hbPgeror2Za7bqgHF_RtnjaYS5oZaO8CWhYtljOX976LLOCIgTTDY7JSIj1UC_hiWIhfI9vv3YnTCkm71lbyInB96qvleWog02fbW7fgw/w320-h320/333047790_1299275827288745_8316170614046029079_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><i>If there was ever a time to champion and empower feminine values<span style="text-align: left;">—solidarity,</span><span style="text-align: left;"> true relatedness, care, compassion and the unique overwhelming power arising from the intensity of love</span><span style="text-align: left;">—now would be the time...to benefit all humankind.</span></i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">-Patricia Albere</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Founder of Evolutionary Collective</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQDqkkyix4cG7VoJXiSQiRFSelvjriHx9k_1ixCqpdvtyqHKn-jUbyBlwrDo2isu_NiCclG5qFHyMTCT9Qi3_-hpseBbjPyDMl1Gk5FDZ_r9HyWbaZuyJe-V47fixekQHtiJySt2zctHqezln0ZH9iW-uFXkLz2t2jeX7FOpF21ORfTM_koUtGaQQGuw/s526/319238142_6128378770527753_5464669344004754853_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQDqkkyix4cG7VoJXiSQiRFSelvjriHx9k_1ixCqpdvtyqHKn-jUbyBlwrDo2isu_NiCclG5qFHyMTCT9Qi3_-hpseBbjPyDMl1Gk5FDZ_r9HyWbaZuyJe-V47fixekQHtiJySt2zctHqezln0ZH9iW-uFXkLz2t2jeX7FOpF21ORfTM_koUtGaQQGuw/s320/319238142_6128378770527753_5464669344004754853_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span></div></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-70617746619112492052023-02-22T10:39:00.002-05:002023-03-19T20:28:56.909-04:00Made-for-Hollywood Fairy Tale<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXtygx3AEFn9I3RlkXA1GZdvAYcbjAe0b-PNj7lhIPMsYII_zdzK5X1g7xzHournH8GQx8IhOJI_p1FMa4RdSVRv6a8_hrgwMFg_hxGi58m6dBsZWY43iWAtl_-RKOTQHeEvOdXUItTT5X13oeQ1QIStSjFON8jTqm4-f3Lixdh8xUDOvtjALn-sif2w/s800/405a571f1404ed78b043849160719d94.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="573" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXtygx3AEFn9I3RlkXA1GZdvAYcbjAe0b-PNj7lhIPMsYII_zdzK5X1g7xzHournH8GQx8IhOJI_p1FMa4RdSVRv6a8_hrgwMFg_hxGi58m6dBsZWY43iWAtl_-RKOTQHeEvOdXUItTT5X13oeQ1QIStSjFON8jTqm4-f3Lixdh8xUDOvtjALn-sif2w/s320/405a571f1404ed78b043849160719d94.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">he wedding gown of famous brides—especially ones about to become a princess</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;">—</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">often becomes the centerpiece of the <i>fairy tale</i> remembrance, even more than the wedding ceremony or the couple themselves. It's a memory and an image that we keep returning to...well past any whiff of a once "fairy-tale" romance!</span></div></span></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Recently, <i>Vanity Fair</i> magazine returned to the iconic gown of Grace Kelly in Fawnia Soo Hoo's article, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/01/grace-kelly-wedding-dress" target="_blank">"Why Grace Kelly's Wedding Dress Embodies a Made-for-Hollywood Fairy Tale."</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>With sublimely intricate details, </i></span><i style="font-family: arial;">like seed pearls accenting
needle lace motifs and a pleated silk faille cummerbund atop the skirting,
Grace Kelly’s wedding-dress style continues to be interpreted—even by royals
and celebrities—over six decades later. “The reason Princess Grace’s wedding
gown still resonates today with so many brides has at least as much to do with
who wore it, as the dress itself. The design is lovely and timeless, but the
way the dress sits at an intersection of Hollywood and royalty makes it
particularly evocative and very much an aspirational fantasy piece for many
brides,” says Lorenzo Marquez, author, podcaster, and cofounder of fashion and
culture website, Tom + Lorenzo.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5kPrN_sgvdshQhbuErb4asChgbePSyMFWP0cfoKCGc47CPk0pg4fUbMh0cNjxBbIXTvseh_ve_fnJenv7zvzKTumSi4ciT1cPInYyyEOr-IKWnO87dSermSRt7CSzXXVQ4sfLVJ9Bxib6yJt3p7pkTU4cg3RmjrcrhGY2A5v-BF3Pr-5hhW59moH1_w/s613/grace-kelly-wedding-dresses-98-2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="460" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5kPrN_sgvdshQhbuErb4asChgbePSyMFWP0cfoKCGc47CPk0pg4fUbMh0cNjxBbIXTvseh_ve_fnJenv7zvzKTumSi4ciT1cPInYyyEOr-IKWnO87dSermSRt7CSzXXVQ4sfLVJ9Bxib6yJt3p7pkTU4cg3RmjrcrhGY2A5v-BF3Pr-5hhW59moH1_w/s320/grace-kelly-wedding-dresses-98-2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Kate Middleton was particularly smart to evoke
the dress without copying it, underlining her own status as a commoner marrying
a prince, but also avoiding any comparisons to previous brides in the British
royal family,” Marquez added. </span></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwClOFEiYnGtr3pueXAXVJ5C0GmxhIi3BFC3LxsT_4giFHXI4UweC8yLO5UDQTKoRHNNWrtV_iRPMpE4LzSNCQMJfCUkJNThmSsQkJ1KwGJZ85z8XV3DqW8ycyehLjctHK2dIFB7Il1tYyVzEul_3Yg8lXVnAqc6FnjjIUDR7RlII4uv94Ky1mPGnXQA/s416/274291.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="318" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwClOFEiYnGtr3pueXAXVJ5C0GmxhIi3BFC3LxsT_4giFHXI4UweC8yLO5UDQTKoRHNNWrtV_iRPMpE4LzSNCQMJfCUkJNThmSsQkJ1KwGJZ85z8XV3DqW8ycyehLjctHK2dIFB7Il1tYyVzEul_3Yg8lXVnAqc6FnjjIUDR7RlII4uv94Ky1mPGnXQA/w153-h200/274291.jpg" width="153" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A lovely book by my costume-history colleague, Kristina Haugland of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, <i>Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride</i>, shares the story behind the creation and sentiment of the gown and its accessories...which were all given to the museum by the new princess soon after her wedding. The gown was last on display in 2006.</span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQgKZg5NkUuFOlOPKvT36KS4pC8ooO36pqk4_fPd4oUx0OsQmyQe2EqdGYkr-gnpnGoUq7fdmsZ96kJVry5UyIFegmpB9sKwAuyKBnlLi4ZINkKRFAZH_ZICTLopiV9xbdiI1hEy5qKjknCAKAmCa1sQzTC2sjpTCLCYCebzt60IHVMbOVfZrydI_cA/s2320/hero_1956-51-1--4v1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="2320" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQgKZg5NkUuFOlOPKvT36KS4pC8ooO36pqk4_fPd4oUx0OsQmyQe2EqdGYkr-gnpnGoUq7fdmsZ96kJVry5UyIFegmpB9sKwAuyKBnlLi4ZINkKRFAZH_ZICTLopiV9xbdiI1hEy5qKjknCAKAmCa1sQzTC2sjpTCLCYCebzt60IHVMbOVfZrydI_cA/w400-h225/hero_1956-51-1--4v1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>...........................................................</b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-3967563939771085012023-02-14T11:45:00.001-05:002023-03-10T14:15:08.095-05:00LOVE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKOW6YlmWi-ZZ6nYcuF4TaNZngGQDHhCU6ZgQOy_NnZLQDqjpwUVAqrJ2ge3NxishdtGIOmVYiJzGpAVI7h59ZDSawmSSfExQWPmmxyarLw3ZfEHwNJinjHVy0kmw0Af971asysgOxhzBNqFmVLejZ04pYvbdcey_d7lBwbJYaTGckE-oGfdwto8iktw/s526/329591870_1535911800264190_3804151588241469775_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKOW6YlmWi-ZZ6nYcuF4TaNZngGQDHhCU6ZgQOy_NnZLQDqjpwUVAqrJ2ge3NxishdtGIOmVYiJzGpAVI7h59ZDSawmSSfExQWPmmxyarLw3ZfEHwNJinjHVy0kmw0Af971asysgOxhzBNqFmVLejZ04pYvbdcey_d7lBwbJYaTGckE-oGfdwto8iktw/w320-h320/329591870_1535911800264190_3804151588241469775_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p> <br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-37305079501072023942023-01-30T16:10:00.004-05:002023-02-05T15:38:25.265-05:00Costume History as Human History<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">ne of the reasons I've always enjoyed studying, reading about, and speaking on the topic of costume history is because "what we wear" tells a story about "who we are"</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">—bringing an intimacy to the human story with all of its creative spirit!</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As King Louis XIV of France said: "Fashion is the mirror of history."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLb_FBiEtQDoMJckpfnynEoIYHPAo6FJI_rVMOWYhJAh455OIfhzWEA0gnW5BAMgd5BK9oMRHnwhKbo9SsAqnXr5-eESDhqPVPF_1FHPkTiecoKs5DIAxN4_9DEllZWnztvzxuvbykFW-Xgg0Z8GQpYzAE2TGdsDfolmogkg0Gyewh84_ZyIGHfAzlOw/s293/41HSiSCip3L._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="191" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLb_FBiEtQDoMJckpfnynEoIYHPAo6FJI_rVMOWYhJAh455OIfhzWEA0gnW5BAMgd5BK9oMRHnwhKbo9SsAqnXr5-eESDhqPVPF_1FHPkTiecoKs5DIAxN4_9DEllZWnztvzxuvbykFW-Xgg0Z8GQpYzAE2TGdsDfolmogkg0Gyewh84_ZyIGHfAzlOw/s1600/41HSiSCip3L._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.webp" width="191" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Costume historian <b>Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell</b> is one of those storytellers who integrates this fashion and human narrative in a delightfully enlightening way! The latest book by this prolific author, <i><b>Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century</b></i>, was recently featured in a lecture for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9JSAmWcA8o&ab_channel=TheNationalArtsClub" rel="nofollow"><b>The National Arts Club</b></a>. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9JSAmWcA8o&ab_channel=TheNationalArtsClub" rel="nofollow"><b>Click here</b></a> to be taken to Kimberly's entertaining talk, slide show, and Q & A. <i>Enjoy!</i></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-53720852874632175332022-12-29T13:53:00.008-05:002023-02-14T12:02:01.747-05:00Falling In Love<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Enjoy another excerpt from my book-in-progress, </b></span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>The Spritual Mission of a Princess</i>....</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">..................................................................</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZC_Bg9w_rY5hZ7p6hOXomnKQVXMZZJWc_SlTbtj-z1hhMj-FSA7QwtdtCfwPoVKVmb2BaBp0pZOwGqnsM2nlJm54E4bL8VnOqL5opLMXw2hgnG_PI4ij86HUYkyq1TPrQpN7hJWxxhT9OXD_EW3jwiTifHQnSE3meswVpBaCjN9oKsk88-HvN_XVxw/s531/5b62da1ee93701b35168aadf74822dce.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="531" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZC_Bg9w_rY5hZ7p6hOXomnKQVXMZZJWc_SlTbtj-z1hhMj-FSA7QwtdtCfwPoVKVmb2BaBp0pZOwGqnsM2nlJm54E4bL8VnOqL5opLMXw2hgnG_PI4ij86HUYkyq1TPrQpN7hJWxxhT9OXD_EW3jwiTifHQnSE3meswVpBaCjN9oKsk88-HvN_XVxw/w200-h155/5b62da1ee93701b35168aadf74822dce.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">uch has been
written about how </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">Diana Spencer</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> fell in love with an “image” of </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">Prince Charles</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
and not with the man. But she would not be the first person to objectify
another, falling in love with a concept, a persona, an impression “instead of discovering
who is really there,” as spiritual teacher Patricia Albere shared. In her
book, </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Evolutionary Relationships</b></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, Albere wrote about the principles (including
engagement, commitment, truth, trust, openness, intimacy, sensitivity,
influence, and true autonomy) required to deepen any relationship—whether
friend, family member, or lover—into a mutual awakening of beloved souls…into
an “evolutionary relationship.” <b>Then, ‘falling in love’ becomes something else
altogether. </b>“When you enter into an Evolutionary Relationship with a sexual
partner,” explained Albere, “you have the opportunity to discover who your
partner really is and what is possible between you<b>…and what is needed to turn
your relationship into a sacred marriage, a spiritual union.”</b> <o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Perhaps <b>Diana</b> had
some intuitive, old-soul knowing of this kind of sacred union, but like most
people, she didn’t know what it would take to have it—and especially, how to
prepare for it. It takes emotional maturity, the courage to be transparent, a
heightened level of spiritual awakening, patience—“a sacred connection cannot
be forced,” as Albere wrote. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE6q1DQTFBcFhv9dtdVMJ2r1GbaPdgP98P93yCJeXwY8F9cfCGNBc2gtgIK4m8xmw6HdQiWwhtj-i-QVxQXK-XTBvr7NclEFcx3G6VIL0o6X469Tx2esZtsGbLXDjLgSX7BXssO9ZZ30yJu8W_lezo7CTGHRUJrah6aCDWvo3kMZIz4sZYoudSS-63Xw/s674/1526730351_prince-harry-meghan-markle-royal-wedding-photos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="674" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE6q1DQTFBcFhv9dtdVMJ2r1GbaPdgP98P93yCJeXwY8F9cfCGNBc2gtgIK4m8xmw6HdQiWwhtj-i-QVxQXK-XTBvr7NclEFcx3G6VIL0o6X469Tx2esZtsGbLXDjLgSX7BXssO9ZZ30yJu8W_lezo7CTGHRUJrah6aCDWvo3kMZIz4sZYoudSS-63Xw/w320-h214/1526730351_prince-harry-meghan-markle-royal-wedding-photos.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">I was reminded of what </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Meghan Markle</b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> said about
the day she married Diana’s son </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Prince Harry</b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">—her wedding a global
spectacle—with millions of people watching, appreciating, judging. <b>“H and I are
really, really good at finding each other in the chaos. When we find each
other, we reconnect to, like, ‘Oh it’s you. It’s you.’”</b> She added that it
wasn’t as though the rest of it didn’t matter—the royal setting, the elegantly appointed
trappings of the wedding—but “it feels temporary.” In such a spiritual union as
they appear to have, it’s the connection, the love that feels real, feels
eternal. (And those of us watching that lovely celebration of marriage could
feel it as well.) Meghan’s friend Vicky Tsai, after attending the wedding
ceremony, confirmed: “It felt like a moment where the world paused and
celebrated love.”</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Although <b>Diana</b>
might have yearned for this level of intimate connection with a partner, <b>in the
pretense-riddled ‘arranged marriage’ framework of her Windsor world</b>, such depth
and harmony and spiritual bonding was not possible. Even with her
heart-centered sensibility, all Diana had to go on when she married was her teenage
romance-novel imagination, a wounded child’s neediness, and society’s outdated
notion of the ‘institution’ of marriage. Her frustration and deep
disappointment lashed out toward her husband with anger and blame, privately
and, stunningly (given the ‘never complain, never explain’ mantra of the royal
family), publicly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fQgOUycv3ryMFS7Q0pPGZk7F_wQjHlTNMYb4wUVeaVqIQalk1OLBPEQRtIK5AtZvXHDtaE-Dl87PByr2QInkjYjTJF2g-Co617PRvoh6_KrulpgH_QgRgUkta7RcJzxFPc2hbT4JdTSyTvYBkQpXEZm5DczqUprF9lDCv_pEPhxEV0uz803vWMQg5Q/s500/0957072295.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="319" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fQgOUycv3ryMFS7Q0pPGZk7F_wQjHlTNMYb4wUVeaVqIQalk1OLBPEQRtIK5AtZvXHDtaE-Dl87PByr2QInkjYjTJF2g-Co617PRvoh6_KrulpgH_QgRgUkta7RcJzxFPc2hbT4JdTSyTvYBkQpXEZm5DczqUprF9lDCv_pEPhxEV0uz803vWMQg5Q/w127-h200/0957072295.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg" width="127" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> In <i><b>Diana: The
Voice of Change</b></i>, Stewart Pearce wrote how Princess Diana’s spot-lit
marriage to the heir to the British throne put a spotlight on the archaic
customs associated with marriage as well as on a woman’s autonomy—or lack of it.
<b>“Diana’s feminine force had disowned the negative masculine when she ‘outed’
Charles, calling for a new level of maturity and truth.”</b> Feminist writers
believed that when Diana found a way to speak out about the inauthentic aspects
of their marriage—her bold actions condemned at the time by some as outrageous,
even scandalous—other women were emboldened to find their voice. <b>“This released
the voice of millions of women, who felt that Diana had given them the right to
speak,”</b> Pearce added. He believed you could follow the thread that got
unraveled in her public revelations about ‘men behaving badly’ directly to the
Time’s Up and MeToo movements over two decades later. <o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfpLlQM1pEJ-3OQNOuIRxDgjsrw_6FRwnXmWcd2hvbpr7wrlDpnAnVqpZhvra7JDPLio5zVj5kB84ZZ2o1sqPiJF35Vtp-WSiqcfOfsxzFTR-zIkNznJfLX6weETEjysiqnMwCF3iKifbMz8XNGP_fc_MQmpVAfR8KrEOZN-1mvXUhyIm1Rq5lECzMEg/s218/61K+qSHT0hL._AC_UY218_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfpLlQM1pEJ-3OQNOuIRxDgjsrw_6FRwnXmWcd2hvbpr7wrlDpnAnVqpZhvra7JDPLio5zVj5kB84ZZ2o1sqPiJF35Vtp-WSiqcfOfsxzFTR-zIkNznJfLX6weETEjysiqnMwCF3iKifbMz8XNGP_fc_MQmpVAfR8KrEOZN-1mvXUhyIm1Rq5lECzMEg/w133-h200/61K+qSHT0hL._AC_UY218_.jpg" width="133" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">As human
consciousness was expanding in the last two decades of the twentieth century, parallel
to Diana’s time in the spotlight, the nature of relationships and structure of
marriage was transforming. In <i><b>The Seat of Soul</b></i>, Gary Zukav saw a more
enlightened future when intimate relationships would be <b>“spiritual
partnerships”</b> where both people thrive and the focus is on each other’s
spiritual growth—evolving from the old, less empowering “five-sensory
relationships.” The more consciously
aware “multisensory humans,” in Zukav’s words, naturally gravitate toward
“spiritual partnerships.” (Maybe Diana sought guidance here since this
culture-changing book was published in the late 1980s when her marriage was a
gloomy mess.) Zukav explained that <b>“spiritual partners help one another
recognize parts of their personalities that come from love—such as gratitude,
patience, and caring—and cultivate them by acting on them consciously.”</b> Being
conscious, awake to the subtleties of life, and emotionally courageous were key
here. Zukav continued: “Spiritual partners also help one another recognize
parts of their personalities that come from fear—such as anger, jealousy, and
righteousness—and challenge them by acting from loving parts of their
personalities (such as patience) when frightened parts (such as impatience) are
active.” (Perhaps <b>Diana </b>wasn’t emotionally grounded enough, especially in those
early years of marriage, to practice these principles, but this language, I
believe, would have resonated with her.)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In addition to the
cultural shifts in relationships and marriage at the time, the hard edge of
masculine/feminine identity was also changing as many women were recognizing
their “masculine” traits (speaking up for themselves, becoming leaders) and
some men were acknowledging their “feminine” nature (being more compassionate
and nurturing), shaking up an old societal template for gender. As human beings
were evolving, long-accepted yet limiting ways of being and relating were
dissolving—new guidelines were required for fully satisfying relationships.
<b>“The ‘Till death do us part’ paradigm within marriage,” Pearce wrote, “no
longer could remain a meaningful construct for the bonds of deep relationship.”
</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5KVuyoMiZX7DomFUi0xAAV9FiH3k2PiH1m8ZMAvh0FOR2OzkR4iAYriK6ItXZkYMgbjQ5Tec26Jwk8JwbfCRgOvDPihqyboDdQnY3RlOCj7fs5mPeA-53Dkwq1hU6stkh1kIskxk7-HIDY0BEz5vZSliu_46cFqeb3qnP_HTzGu3eTOio6NKrZo_Hg/s824/a62f2f59da41f22c88931c36ba53cfc2%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="625" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5KVuyoMiZX7DomFUi0xAAV9FiH3k2PiH1m8ZMAvh0FOR2OzkR4iAYriK6ItXZkYMgbjQ5Tec26Jwk8JwbfCRgOvDPihqyboDdQnY3RlOCj7fs5mPeA-53Dkwq1hU6stkh1kIskxk7-HIDY0BEz5vZSliu_46cFqeb3qnP_HTzGu3eTOio6NKrZo_Hg/w152-h200/a62f2f59da41f22c88931c36ba53cfc2%5B1%5D.jpg" width="152" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Looking back over
the more than two decades since Diana’s death, Stewart Pearce was seeing how
marriages that had been “sustained by the old ways of co-dependency” were
ending and how both women and men were “releasing the obsolete stereotypes” of
marriage so they could have relationships of deep connection of the heart. “At
core, the patriarchy, which had flourished through a malformation of the
masculine, was being transformed on the altar of the newly sacralized
feminine,” Pearce continued with his usual passion. </span><b style="font-size: large;">“Love, compassion,
inclusivity, nurturing, and peaceful co-existence are what we yearn for, are
what we seek out in our intimate relationships….”</b><span style="font-size: medium;"> This sounds most ‘natural’
for us now, but at the time and in the environment in which Diana lived, when
she declared these loving aspects missing in her marriage—indeed, in most
marriages she saw in her aristocratic world—it was revolutionary. </span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">~</span></b></span></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>[Part Two of this section from the chapter "A Woman's Inheritance" will be posted later....]</b></span></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-79656182122569672542022-11-09T14:17:00.001-05:002022-11-12T13:15:13.725-05:00Whatever 'In Love' Means<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrEeXTVLo2vIgfw-p0Ny8tEaBryMcbimYMKCATt2qA8GMnyzaDfTIU44lieOlwOJ-leeRQ9P8ilZaWAf0w4bqHyBLmNQEu9NuIJV8wqYckH4FEv6bijEoQYugJxXZWaaWa6p_bJ3-nqh3KRZhZQy8xd1B2nbBkQHdoF9rDXPZCDqQCjSZiIRFR0T1GA/s275/The_Crown_season_5.jpg.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="220" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrEeXTVLo2vIgfw-p0Ny8tEaBryMcbimYMKCATt2qA8GMnyzaDfTIU44lieOlwOJ-leeRQ9P8ilZaWAf0w4bqHyBLmNQEu9NuIJV8wqYckH4FEv6bijEoQYugJxXZWaaWa6p_bJ3-nqh3KRZhZQy8xd1B2nbBkQHdoF9rDXPZCDqQCjSZiIRFR0T1GA/s1600/The_Crown_season_5.jpg.webp" width="220" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>With the release this month of season five of Peter Morgan's <i>The Crown</i><span style="text-indent: 48px;">—and its emphasis on the next generation: the marriages, affairs, and divorces of three of Queen Elizabeth's children, especially spotlighting Charles and Diana</span></b></span><span style="text-indent: 48px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>—here's an excerpt from my in-progress book, <i>The Spiritual Mission of a Princess</i>, with notes on 'love.' As royal archetypes, were Charles and Diana simply a mismatched couple or was it a "karmic-setup"...with some divine intervention to show the world the way of the heart?</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span><p></p><p><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;">~</span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"> W</b><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;">HATEVER 'IN LOVE' MEANS </b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;">~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">hrough the ages,
history shows that members of royalty—including Charles, Prince of Wales—“was
not encouraged or expected to follow their hearts into marriage,” as author
Caroline Weber wrote in her book review of </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Diana Chronicles</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">. It was
dynastic duty first: a decision about which marital alliance would best serve
the realm and which eligible woman would be most likely to produce a male heir.
It was about power, ownership, control.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Since the desire of one’s
heart was not part of the equation in this extremely patriarchal system of
marriage—where little value was put on love—then if you happened to be in love
with someone who wasn’t suited for the job of royal wife or husband, consequently
your lover was either forgotten or set aside for later affairs. <b>This was just
the way it was, until it wasn’t.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">~ ~ ~</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">“In the history of
the human race, the idea of romance as the prelude to marriage is very rare,”
Alistair Cooke wrote in “The Quest for a Royal Bride” in a July 1981 </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Parade</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
magazine article featuring the upcoming wedding of Charles and Diana. “It must
come as a shock to many people to be reminded that today most marriages, high
and low, in the great majority of countries, are arranged, and that the
choosing is not done by the partners,” the British historian continued. “It is
true, in a particular sense, of royalty. </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">For hundreds of years, love has been
the least essential element of a royal marriage.</b><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> There are certain precise
conditions. Once these are met, if the partners also come to love each other,
so much the better.” And declaring only days before their wedding, in his
famously lighthearted way, Cooke said that if Charles and Diana indeed loved
each other, it would be considered “a happy accident.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqmmJG42bcsU8gKtVoLIR6fnD6yIt6GBtIqRBxmuByi8WEIDK4l71B2eYQ_E4K2mTNkRR3lYFCTkl4ykTHvlCRANUqRgjb4wfvolCl1JZed1pcZseSCXONhjf_EMC2wGdrEkVE2vKhV_-ueuAARj4yC6eIqy-XMkg40_naM4KOPlXIjYmRWKYY1cZbRg/s2560/GL-RoyalsCrown-LEDE.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqmmJG42bcsU8gKtVoLIR6fnD6yIt6GBtIqRBxmuByi8WEIDK4l71B2eYQ_E4K2mTNkRR3lYFCTkl4ykTHvlCRANUqRgjb4wfvolCl1JZed1pcZseSCXONhjf_EMC2wGdrEkVE2vKhV_-ueuAARj4yC6eIqy-XMkg40_naM4KOPlXIjYmRWKYY1cZbRg/s320/GL-RoyalsCrown-LEDE.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Engagement photo,left, Diana & Charles, right "The Crown" season four</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As writer and
humorist Nora Ephron said: “You can never know the truth of anyone’s marriage,
including your own.” <b>Underneath all the soap opera of the Wales’ arranged
marriage (which pretended it was not)</b>, we don’t know much about the moments of sweetness, love and support
that both Charles and Diana said were there. But we do know there was
turmoil—and duplicity. Historically, in the times when arranged marriages were
more typical than not, it was accepted as normal for royal and aristocratic men
to have a discreetly-handled lover—and Charles took advantage of the system.
But in the changing social culture of the late-twentieth century (including the
evolving women’s movements), compounded by the tabloid press now exposing the
private lives of royals, it all seemed hypocritical and vastly out-of-date. <b>And
the young Diana was having no part of the hypocrisy! “For the first time this century,” as feminist
author Beatrix Campbell wrote in 1998, “a woman called a future king to account
for his behavior as a man.”</b> Diana not only denounced the archaic monarchic code
of “men will be men” (and the one where women stay quiet, don</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">t complain so not to rock the royal boat), but exposed the similar double-standard code of the
patriarchy held by many men around the world.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There were
probably many feelings and emotions that pushed Diana to <b>go public about the
disappointments of her marriage</b>. There was hurt and jealousy </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">over her husband’s infidelity</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">, anger and
disappointment, perhaps embarrassment. But
underneath it all, I’d say there was the heart-achingly desire to be loved. (If
not by her husband, then at least by her sympathetic public.) </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs9YcUL9mEmeGMTC_s3doc8WLYCAXN6hE9NTLBivGUE4iF_JzPlUrGoTvdFnjqAToLp1OnXumIj7sN2jVlDYtCbojcFOrPCWwlTsxlIZIqkmoJ7HxbBgv77p2aei9XpSZ75ZblVZwX4jSQv2VjsrmtZymX-m80u2F9B4UDo3MjIOE85ZwFBSXRWp_YEA/s1280/x720.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs9YcUL9mEmeGMTC_s3doc8WLYCAXN6hE9NTLBivGUE4iF_JzPlUrGoTvdFnjqAToLp1OnXumIj7sN2jVlDYtCbojcFOrPCWwlTsxlIZIqkmoJ7HxbBgv77p2aei9XpSZ75ZblVZwX4jSQv2VjsrmtZymX-m80u2F9B4UDo3MjIOE85ZwFBSXRWp_YEA/s320/x720.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nevertheless, <b>“every relationship I have ever looked at Astrologically,” Steffan Vanel states, “can be seen as a ‘karmic set-up’ revealing what the evolving souls knew they would do to each other.” And it was true about Charles and Diana. </b>“Conflictual [sic] as well as complimentary,” wrote Martha Caldwell about the astrological karma between Diana and Charles according to Vanel’s research. “Diana and Charles were perfect for each other in light of what they came to Earth to learn in this lifetime. Much of Diana’s karma surrounds her experience of relationship, so it is with Charles that she worked on her most troublesome issues.” Vanel picked up from there: “The karmic lesson for Charles has been to look inside himself to know who he really is. Diana was the perfect manifestation of a force which would pull the rug out from under his over-identification with role in his life to help him in his own evolution.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">~ ~ ~</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b>Prince Charles
caused quite a stir with his “whatever ‘in love’ means” statement during an
interview with his young fiancée.</b> But philosopher and writer Alain de Botton
would have understood Charles’ frustration. Since his first book, a novel titled </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">On
Love</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">, de Botton combined the theme of love and relationship in his writing
and teaching, but not in a conventional way. The novel’s first line reads:
“Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over knowledge.” </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Compatibility,” de
Botton later wrote, “is an achievement of love. It cannot be its precondition.”
<b>His essay “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person,”</b> explained </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">On Being</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
radio host Krista Tippett, “was, amazingly, the most-read article in the </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">New
York Times</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> in the news-drenched year of 2016. As people, and as a culture,
de Botton says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very
view of love. Nowhere do we realistically teach ourselves and our children,”
Tippett continued, “how love deepens and stumbles, survives and evolves over
time, and how that process has much more to do with ourselves than with what is
right or wrong about our partner.”</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Up5kdPJ3jRH7KqMV0t29vk7CcOwzHQadQ72hW0saHKt4Nr3CeVhiwBbcS0vFsS72QluxeqTcLwDQKSLkTUA-hMbTa0-HVeA4AuFhocWpuCFbdybAzLWnwO-66w479vrgJFON1VQQUA1e3q0kiZ2kP_BkHnUXqIwfD--WHJWxuGTf5zlPksDoLmP4Dg/s2400/PrinceCharles-Camilla.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-indent: 0.5in;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2400" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Up5kdPJ3jRH7KqMV0t29vk7CcOwzHQadQ72hW0saHKt4Nr3CeVhiwBbcS0vFsS72QluxeqTcLwDQKSLkTUA-hMbTa0-HVeA4AuFhocWpuCFbdybAzLWnwO-66w479vrgJFON1VQQUA1e3q0kiZ2kP_BkHnUXqIwfD--WHJWxuGTf5zlPksDoLmP4Dg/s320/PrinceCharles-Camilla.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">W</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span>e are inside a profoundly evolving world; a fundamental consciousness shift is occurring and the nature of our relationships and what we desire from them are shifting as well. But many people have been stuck in the old paradigm, expecting satisfying relationships inside an outdated model. <b>If we are indeed all here to grow and evolve and assist with each other’s evolution, then it’s time to open our hearts—wide with generosity and compassion—so we <i>see</i> each other with love.</b> And sometimes o</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span>ur guides into a new way of <i>being related</i> are unexpected ones. During her life within the archaic institution of the British monarchy and its duty-bound royal family, Princess Diana called out its hard-edged, mindset of “duty over love” and declared that she led with the heart, not with the head, and that love, real <i>love</i>, must always come first. It was a lesson passed on to her sons, as well as to her former husband.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">So w</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">hether in a
romantic relationship or just living day-to-day out in the world, there’s simply
this, in the words of Marianne Williamson: <b>“You are loved, and your purpose is
to love.”</b> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">~</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEa2d48a_h2SOMxvvc-njg9vTv8elbRDeeAALhAb8K5u_DOOhSImuKlSlkjm57jI-vF8sV6Sm5MmZlLyvNXNhXcOzA9MRPC_gv21apzzh52abdBlwMnF7qdFgKqzQ6RN4WDo8xKRh2Wv79_q-M9I2jLP9mV01qj8aBO_qg2Ygii59fj_n_IL3EdZc7g/s1280/maxresdefault%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEa2d48a_h2SOMxvvc-njg9vTv8elbRDeeAALhAb8K5u_DOOhSImuKlSlkjm57jI-vF8sV6Sm5MmZlLyvNXNhXcOzA9MRPC_gv21apzzh52abdBlwMnF7qdFgKqzQ6RN4WDo8xKRh2Wv79_q-M9I2jLP9mV01qj8aBO_qg2Ygii59fj_n_IL3EdZc7g/s320/maxresdefault%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-28967544920144692402022-09-08T18:30:00.140-04:002022-10-10T12:57:07.978-04:00Femininity As Power<p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_LHExGKEigUg2OYvMFOVE0D8y4j9sz2oUzOAkjXrWJ1G0T-A7aUuym7WMXtHQBbJ8mQY94iR1ERSb_ug6Y7j5aV8CwUpbSCmRwnGWyxCE9XwKukaol0YwOMVOED8x1hMQqUCVV-bMADD02kc3NxV3IG6aon3wZ-i0eabQd4Lb4BxK_DzatDNgcHGC8Q/s620/7edc09e80997bf9a904589209fbd545b.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="465" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_LHExGKEigUg2OYvMFOVE0D8y4j9sz2oUzOAkjXrWJ1G0T-A7aUuym7WMXtHQBbJ8mQY94iR1ERSb_ug6Y7j5aV8CwUpbSCmRwnGWyxCE9XwKukaol0YwOMVOED8x1hMQqUCVV-bMADD02kc3NxV3IG6aon3wZ-i0eabQd4Lb4BxK_DzatDNgcHGC8Q/w240-h320/7edc09e80997bf9a904589209fbd545b.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In honor of Queen Elizabeth II, and all women who have taken on leadership roles in a man's world (either by birth or by determination and talent), here's an excerpt from my book-in-progress, <i>The Spiritual Mission of a Princess</i>. This section, Femininity As Power, is from the "Dressing for the Illusion" chapter....enjoy.</span></b><p></p><p style="text-indent: 48px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>........................................................................</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">everal years ago,
Nancy Kidwell, who at the time was head costume curator at the Smithsonian, addressed an all-male audience of museum executives regarding the urgency of funding their institutions</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 48px;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> costume departments. Kidwell recalled that she shocked this </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 48px;">“sea of gray suits” when she declared</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">: “If you
think clothes aren’t important, then try going to work without them!” For women,
their clothes are not only “important,” but they inspire a running critique.
Any woman, royal or otherwise, who is in the public eye must deal with the
criticism and judgment about her “wardrobe”—just check the press coverage on
Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin or Margaret Thatcher or any number of prominent
women in politics.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhpcv95YJtN7fG0Oyrdk-X_nDCfDmQLoyp3VaPZ_BWJwcKkN5t-2a8Wrvchoj1CNyfyQK47tK7ONhdURGzY-VQ8_NJPzbuKp7VTZt3FhhGMzztF2uxDvoyqQWn-YHnBKrnN6X-XfIiIpYf6PRJiDV-d4f18MHWYB312VYf_7Y7-qPqqoe-q_KgE_LdvA/s594/36d0e23d64150ae11bcfcbd8dec548b8--power-dressing-margaret-thatcher.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="394" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhpcv95YJtN7fG0Oyrdk-X_nDCfDmQLoyp3VaPZ_BWJwcKkN5t-2a8Wrvchoj1CNyfyQK47tK7ONhdURGzY-VQ8_NJPzbuKp7VTZt3FhhGMzztF2uxDvoyqQWn-YHnBKrnN6X-XfIiIpYf6PRJiDV-d4f18MHWYB312VYf_7Y7-qPqqoe-q_KgE_LdvA/w133-h200/36d0e23d64150ae11bcfcbd8dec548b8--power-dressing-margaret-thatcher.jpg" width="133" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the
culture-shifting 1980s, as women’s roles were changing and more and more women
opened their own businesses, ran for political office, entered the workforce
once restricted to “men only,” taking on leadership positions in offices and
boardrooms, women’s fashions powered-up as well. The man-tailored, hard-edged
suits with heavy shoulder pads were like a woman’s “armor” to help her move
through a man’s world—Margaret Thatcher comes to mind. And whether it was an
intentional feminine gesture or just the Prime Minister’s preference, she
always wore skirts.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkhFRPA-YlnMd794d_Mjm9rxqjp8JExdsYoGpJf-UCPYIP7sfZ8kwW_Jjt7LO3rc5oyCzBZsQwUSsXAV-d7MuMv4rpTc949o7EtwL9JJD1xzPrY98PbpCbhDr8x4Kezx2Mwqrdmqxra-v6z0rLsZE2rs9EmkpMTxKEiKcRS_6le0ZCUdkFB9IN-K3yQ/s1152/hbz-queen-elizabeth-march-2016-gettyimages-513505600.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="768" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkhFRPA-YlnMd794d_Mjm9rxqjp8JExdsYoGpJf-UCPYIP7sfZ8kwW_Jjt7LO3rc5oyCzBZsQwUSsXAV-d7MuMv4rpTc949o7EtwL9JJD1xzPrY98PbpCbhDr8x4Kezx2Mwqrdmqxra-v6z0rLsZE2rs9EmkpMTxKEiKcRS_6le0ZCUdkFB9IN-K3yQ/w133-h200/hbz-queen-elizabeth-march-2016-gettyimages-513505600.jpg" width="133" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, Queen
Elizabeth always wears skirts—it’s her inherent style. But it’s also a way to
stand out in a man’s world, a show of femininity as power. When I returned to
work on this long-in-progress book, the third season of Peter Morgan’s
television series </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Crown</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> premiered in 2019. “I’ve come to realize
more than ever,” wrote Sophie Gilbert in </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Atlantic</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">, “how the series
uses clothing to explore and subvert ideas about power, and what it looks like
when a woman wields it.” (This particular season of </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Crown</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> was
recreating the world of Queen Elizabeth II from the mid-1960s into the late
1970s.) “Typically when women gain access to a man’s world in popular culture,
they dress the part, adopting masculine tailoring and fabrics. The Queen is
different. Her gender, and her femininity, are intrinsic to the way she
governs.” Gilbert describes the opening scene of the first episode as the image
of the Queen, played by Olivia Colman, comes into focus “surrounded by a
phalanx of men in dark suits. She, by contrast, wears a lilac dress with a
love-knot detail over her breastbone, high-heeled black shoes, and pale
stockings…. Her authority is such that the men around her bend slightly
backward when she enters the room, as if to surrender even the airspace to the
head of state.” </span></span><p></p><p><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjmVpbzhYPH795H3K3jPbdQd6AzciBIybyz2EQwaIpFFVd4_pt_bW43DflmKHl-uqIsdom9DMOzav5RaKY4oq7GaDNdUyzKUHXoSzpYETkOGBDh_-BFilqmK7GmynRRjmVo2KiRDj8UV-abYemWPflzI3PAJBYOrshmSRgbBhElfcyev2dmq_36YMjcA/s764/landscape-desktop.764.430.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="764" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjmVpbzhYPH795H3K3jPbdQd6AzciBIybyz2EQwaIpFFVd4_pt_bW43DflmKHl-uqIsdom9DMOzav5RaKY4oq7GaDNdUyzKUHXoSzpYETkOGBDh_-BFilqmK7GmynRRjmVo2KiRDj8UV-abYemWPflzI3PAJBYOrshmSRgbBhElfcyev2dmq_36YMjcA/s320/landscape-desktop.764.430.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Actresses portraying QEII in "The Crown" television series</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">This is why
costume designers are key to the appeal and success of films and television
programs. Picture </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Game of Thrones</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">, </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The Lord of the Rings</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">, or </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Downton
Abbey</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">—their costumes so essential to character development and overall
production values. Costume desi</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">gner Michelle Clapton, who was lured away from
her remarkable run with </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Game of Thrones</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> for most of its season five to
create the costumes for the pivotal first season of </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Crown</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">,
explained: “Correct costuming has its own primary role in enabling the actors
to inhabit their characters. I’m the first person they really spend time with;
the rehearsals come later. When they put the clothes on, and you get it right,
you do see them transform….”</span></span><p></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOhxcNFKudsa9tyUtptgCk6xsYa3MFb-xW27P51yEMqli6ZwrlMONypJAqILoN1m8ODalem6En4dKH7vBlLF-PAZsEhck9c-YlEPjaPudgD11NhNyMeKj3aAFU1Ci9bpTb-7BAI7MatzsP4xaQmWhUDfSVtWwnrso9lIIEDtJKrSR6fNV5ZL9dz7EZCw/s648/y648.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="523" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOhxcNFKudsa9tyUtptgCk6xsYa3MFb-xW27P51yEMqli6ZwrlMONypJAqILoN1m8ODalem6En4dKH7vBlLF-PAZsEhck9c-YlEPjaPudgD11NhNyMeKj3aAFU1Ci9bpTb-7BAI7MatzsP4xaQmWhUDfSVtWwnrso9lIIEDtJKrSR6fNV5ZL9dz7EZCw/w161-h200/y648.jpg" width="161" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Angela Kelly, the <i>real</i>
Queen’s senior dresser beginning in the late 1990s and by 2001 her in-house
designer, used several techniques to emphasize Queen Elizabeth’s femininity, as
well as her authority. Kelly revealed in her book, <i>The Other Side of the
Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe</i>, that she uses striking,
vibrant colors for the Queen’s daytime wardrobe, not because they’re the
Queen’s favorites, but to “allow her to stand out from the crowd and be visible
to the well-wishers who have come to see her.” These are intentional gestures
by the Queen and her staff meant to be courteous, diplomatic, and, as Gilbert
sees it, a way “to underscore her own authority”—to underscore femininity as
power. Something many women are now embracing with a confident stride, again. ~</span></span><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVLoOOL2Uxv5UN-WqQ3xBCET_ECOyp7iWaUGlpvZx4zuBndZEitqoB_ACwIamJ6-v9a1bkCTZCxVTxqU2YFb30xgRnuG3EXCrWCf8TdpJIjc_SYL1XUqoig5nXQIpKSDkNqw9w6NE-DWvh_arJDg96dqRnNIeR3DLOSEVWi10xwtlN51_6shtZEn2KQ/s300/iuCTKRXKM0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="300" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVLoOOL2Uxv5UN-WqQ3xBCET_ECOyp7iWaUGlpvZx4zuBndZEitqoB_ACwIamJ6-v9a1bkCTZCxVTxqU2YFb30xgRnuG3EXCrWCf8TdpJIjc_SYL1XUqoig5nXQIpKSDkNqw9w6NE-DWvh_arJDg96dqRnNIeR3DLOSEVWi10xwtlN51_6shtZEn2KQ/s1600/iuCTKRXKM0.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-11817417830525133712022-08-31T07:11:00.025-04:002022-09-06T15:16:55.048-04:00A Remembrance of the Heart<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk3GWpPUOUJqng0QlxD2iZT0hOMNUlNiDrjpFUVgJ21Cy6MwH8cVsNnpKlg9JPa0Rm2qYNYAi0VMaD3CNdb24lbonDL61zzyW1at7bE5nfUEJ_tc2Q8Im8lwoxw6Get4RA0pDtdrEonP1Boz9Pl4UP5ZNPzIKgTJQ7pKcnvD8z-F_hSbSqqW9A8oqPXA/s267/Mario%20Testino%20sitting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk3GWpPUOUJqng0QlxD2iZT0hOMNUlNiDrjpFUVgJ21Cy6MwH8cVsNnpKlg9JPa0Rm2qYNYAi0VMaD3CNdb24lbonDL61zzyW1at7bE5nfUEJ_tc2Q8Im8lwoxw6Get4RA0pDtdrEonP1Boz9Pl4UP5ZNPzIKgTJQ7pKcnvD8z-F_hSbSqqW9A8oqPXA/s267/Mario%20Testino%20sitting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="189" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk3GWpPUOUJqng0QlxD2iZT0hOMNUlNiDrjpFUVgJ21Cy6MwH8cVsNnpKlg9JPa0Rm2qYNYAi0VMaD3CNdb24lbonDL61zzyW1at7bE5nfUEJ_tc2Q8Im8lwoxw6Get4RA0pDtdrEonP1Boz9Pl4UP5ZNPzIKgTJQ7pKcnvD8z-F_hSbSqqW9A8oqPXA/s1600/Mario%20Testino%20sitting.jpg" width="189" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">photo by Mario Testino</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk3GWpPUOUJqng0QlxD2iZT0hOMNUlNiDrjpFUVgJ21Cy6MwH8cVsNnpKlg9JPa0Rm2qYNYAi0VMaD3CNdb24lbonDL61zzyW1at7bE5nfUEJ_tc2Q8Im8lwoxw6Get4RA0pDtdrEonP1Boz9Pl4UP5ZNPzIKgTJQ7pKcnvD8z-F_hSbSqqW9A8oqPXA/s267/Mario%20Testino%20sitting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Twenty-five years ago today a princess died and the world was never the same. Diana's heart-centered, deeply feminine sensibility was preparing us for changes to come...changes of the heart. From the Introduction of my still-in-progress book, </span><i style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The Spiritual Mission of a Princess....</span></i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">DIANA AS MESSENGER</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We are in a most
remarkable moment in history. Feminine wisdom, suppressed through the ages, is
reclaiming her respected place in global culture—and in the human heart. Many
have championed its re-emergence—that more compassionate, inclusive, tender
side of ourselves—and many have been met with pointed resistance. But the
female creative spirit can be denied no longer, the forgotten beloved now has a
name, and the power of a woman’s gift is poised to bring the world back into
balance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVc2OKIGTRhzYen2DeZnl_lZPNwPDiC-ZNE5od-qPRumFuYcjiqE7avITA_5bzAhG_is7ytF1wGhJLb2J_v7DMprVh0EPgOQ9Cu56uehSQ-48qy_a0aVIa3R_9rfiUNm4gAi0eGutMqazid92NwjiW0TcefVV15jeP5CiSWz6EEE2hm4avDzaRPlvv2Q/s503/0d860889611c477a777115e425a3b835.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="380" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVc2OKIGTRhzYen2DeZnl_lZPNwPDiC-ZNE5od-qPRumFuYcjiqE7avITA_5bzAhG_is7ytF1wGhJLb2J_v7DMprVh0EPgOQ9Cu56uehSQ-48qy_a0aVIa3R_9rfiUNm4gAi0eGutMqazid92NwjiW0TcefVV15jeP5CiSWz6EEE2hm4avDzaRPlvv2Q/w151-h200/0d860889611c477a777115e425a3b835.jpg" width="151" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photo by Mario Testino</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Historically,
there have been royal archetypes, far from being perfect human beings yet seen as “messengers”—some thought to be
divinely guided, their roles designed to help
light our paths, even playing a part in shifting consciousness, resetting human
potential, and, as with one such messenger, <b>Diana, Princess of Wales</b>,
representing the return of a womanly presence, a heart’s vision, or as she
called it, simply the need for “a woman’s touch” in a hard-edged world. In this
pivotal, between-the-worlds time of universal changes, of feminine wisdom
rising, it’s the perfect moment to explore this celebrated life through a
different lens, a lens focused on the heart as a way to capture Diana’s true
legacy—and how it interweaves with the story of all women—then set alight her
spiritual mission in us all.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ2T4A5RYTCHcBz0BU2h59Hjh6oSiP_MrSHMKymzREYDZz8TlpPNOiaj3qhGdL4LHxX_C6IFudTKzOAT_AE0JXG1CkscSXXa5a4Py0NtzUfcvrjZ5KXFkcedvcFYkasTGIM08nDYGBuy2tKnArD1oeN_fjPkpuC8g0Ak9Fee1kGg_5LDbH3ND8EFk3xQ/s1400/DIANA_PRESS_01-1254x1400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1254" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ2T4A5RYTCHcBz0BU2h59Hjh6oSiP_MrSHMKymzREYDZz8TlpPNOiaj3qhGdL4LHxX_C6IFudTKzOAT_AE0JXG1CkscSXXa5a4Py0NtzUfcvrjZ5KXFkcedvcFYkasTGIM08nDYGBuy2tKnArD1oeN_fjPkpuC8g0Ak9Fee1kGg_5LDbH3ND8EFk3xQ/w179-h200/DIANA_PRESS_01-1254x1400.jpg" width="179" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photo by Mario Testino</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Was <b>Diana Spencer
Mountbatten-Windsor’s</b> life, in Shakespeare’s princely words, about “cracking
open a noble heart”—and with her death, our own? There are times when someone’s
true influence and contributions only become known when we take a step back to
see a broader view of what that life awakened in the world. And we’re now
living in that awakening. Carried by a bold feminine impulse, we are being
transported into a new future, into a higher order of relating, being connected
with something precious and intimate within us to share with each
other…something we only dared to ever imagine.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-12922449484739829522022-07-15T18:13:00.007-04:002022-09-01T08:58:49.358-04:00"Heart Star" - Book Excerpt<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnm6A__qpWIINorLR7Z3hgo7P0DyukzS7UDZV5iorxQJL-3-Vv6Q7nyOB9DVMFjGvPclY8AV0-1UvAC6jgLEdA3l0sEo68rzP-M6j8gEqbVoCUC-8kzoqB-QB4Gu8xVH5O0-FvOafXEbC93SqHdM4aWIXwpkD_GROLHyfPQ1Tn3HjNmbx4OjkydEGvzw/s2048/nebula_night_starry_sky_178907_3840x2160.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnm6A__qpWIINorLR7Z3hgo7P0DyukzS7UDZV5iorxQJL-3-Vv6Q7nyOB9DVMFjGvPclY8AV0-1UvAC6jgLEdA3l0sEo68rzP-M6j8gEqbVoCUC-8kzoqB-QB4Gu8xVH5O0-FvOafXEbC93SqHdM4aWIXwpkD_GROLHyfPQ1Tn3HjNmbx4OjkydEGvzw/w400-h225/nebula_night_starry_sky_178907_3840x2160.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In my long-in-progress book, <i>The Spiritual Mission of a Princess: Diana and the Return of the Heart</i>, I often reference an anthology published months after Princess Diana's death...<i>When A Princess Dies: Reflections from Jungian Analysts</i>. In my chapter, "The Sight of Stars," I quote Renos Papadopoulos about distinctions of stars in the heavens and celebrities who have a 'star quality': </b></span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><i>Stars are self-sufficient and independent entities in so far as they shine from within and do not follow anybody else's orbit. It must have been these attributes of stars, in addition to their distant, mysterious and magic qualities, that have prompted people to describe certain celebrities as 'stars'.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Enjoy an excerpt of "The Sight of Stars" chapter....</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>.........................</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>HEART STAR</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">She was a 'flawed' star and this brought her</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">closer to the people, </span></i><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">who loved the idea </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> that a star could also be so near to them.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">-Renos K. Papadopoulos, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">When A Princess Dies: </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Reflections from Jungian Analysts</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">“The etymology of
the English word ‘star’ comes from a very old root with similar words in most
ancient languages,” wrote Renos K. Papadopoulos in <i>When a Princess Dies</i>.
However, the Greek version of the word, <i>aster</i>, “reveals an interesting
twist.” It is related to the word <i>teirea</i> that translates to “‘the
heavenly constellations, signs’…and to <i>teras </i>which is ‘a sign, wonder,
marvel, of any appearance or event, in which men believed that they could see
the finger of God, and read the future,’” Papadopoulos continued; “hence, <i>teras</i>
also refers to ‘anything that serves as a divine sign or omen.’” Many viewed such
‘star signs’ and ‘divine omens’ in the life and death of Princess Diana.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQNPpH7nrzoii3-CMG5Qh2fa6DySAb-R2CYyLFj8zDclK2oEew06kvvgz2ami0x0rjvPO1vbeqhkBNWu1Vh7UeqNVl91_P9TZ1lXthMR1AFo62dilI7GPelNYFY9HWPiTOiDrO4DvGTVLc96bblJ1woPt_hVTyTepj_ZsZyIh5a78QRC0PII-cjQ8W7w/s500/0957072295.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="319" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQNPpH7nrzoii3-CMG5Qh2fa6DySAb-R2CYyLFj8zDclK2oEew06kvvgz2ami0x0rjvPO1vbeqhkBNWu1Vh7UeqNVl91_P9TZ1lXthMR1AFo62dilI7GPelNYFY9HWPiTOiDrO4DvGTVLc96bblJ1woPt_hVTyTepj_ZsZyIh5a78QRC0PII-cjQ8W7w/w127-h200/0957072295.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg" width="127" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">An “incandescent
star that illuminated both the earth and skies,” wrote Stewart Pearce about Diana,
not seeing the Princess’ stardom as simply superficial celebrity, but saw her as
a divinely-inspired being following her spiritual mission. Pearce, who spoke
about his confidential position as a voice and presence coach during the last
two years of Diana’s life, writes ardently about her celestial connections and “world
saving” fate which was “set to illuminate the conviction of love, joy and
charity….” </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Oprah Winfrey
wrote eloquently about how we are all precious human beings “given an almighty
gift,” destined to live a life we love. And she also acknowledges there are
those who shine a bit more brilliantly. “Then along comes an anointed one, who
given the chance shines as brightly as the pole star. These are the shining
ones who lead the way, and Diana was such a one!” Divinely touched, yet
poignantly human.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJp3jrFpp4011ijZYxBzcQdlom46NmCH7R-a75OgFEdgDyDE03-QT7FXAQnylTijH3cwltKmcEBo-6V3__7mdyGew212YvlVp-wxx9TYezepcut_wmnPUdJK_70CCa4fhlK0TEIaIelNnlo-_2tIu1ogDo6zEyBpjh_q0I7zTVXJ5VXBw2KmvAuSV6tg/s640/11378640_166403373739804_385439804_n.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJp3jrFpp4011ijZYxBzcQdlom46NmCH7R-a75OgFEdgDyDE03-QT7FXAQnylTijH3cwltKmcEBo-6V3__7mdyGew212YvlVp-wxx9TYezepcut_wmnPUdJK_70CCa4fhlK0TEIaIelNnlo-_2tIu1ogDo6zEyBpjh_q0I7zTVXJ5VXBw2KmvAuSV6tg/w200-h200/11378640_166403373739804_385439804_n.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">photo by Mario Testino</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The star-lit words
used to describe Princess Diana in life and death: luminous, radiant, inner
light, shining from within, incandescent—whether used literally or
metaphorically—also suggested something of a spiritual nature. Just as such
words also point to that person’s life being a guidepost of sorts, a sign, a
message to pay attention, changes ahead. And for Diana, her message was through
the heart, she was signaling the world that it was time for change. It was time
for a return to love…and she was indeed shining a light to guide the way.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxw9hE1wHZ1K6MC1G35FkUbFlp9V5qE1JrFnl7Jp78BDEG5EGJ3LiiAHj-JSPPMFYaTvZGKKjQICdHSPcfIdsSLdm9hkn6x6HSAC84GBMB1x87PwAqXXqJrAkX1_ETWGSqXaDDEt86ol2bWUHXR7eL3qHQl_lr3DOfGeaiOMXGgqjcbjUm06RdgAeYA/s960/the-year-of-her-death-marked-the-height-of-her-campaign-against-land-mines-the-princess-visited-with-victims-in-angola.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxw9hE1wHZ1K6MC1G35FkUbFlp9V5qE1JrFnl7Jp78BDEG5EGJ3LiiAHj-JSPPMFYaTvZGKKjQICdHSPcfIdsSLdm9hkn6x6HSAC84GBMB1x87PwAqXXqJrAkX1_ETWGSqXaDDEt86ol2bWUHXR7eL3qHQl_lr3DOfGeaiOMXGgqjcbjUm06RdgAeYA/w200-h150/the-year-of-her-death-marked-the-height-of-her-campaign-against-land-mines-the-princess-visited-with-victims-in-angola.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">But there was
another etymological twist Papa</span><span style="font-family: times;">dopoulos pointed out relating to Diana and her complex
persona. Those ancient star-related words, <i>teirea</i> and <i>teras</i>,<i> </i>are
related to the verb <i>teiro</i> which he defines as “to rub away: of the
effects of pain, sorrow on body and mind…to suffer, to be distressed. This is
the root of ‘trauma’, as well.” We see this in Diana and other celebrity stars.
In addition to “the glitter and glamour there is often something ominous, even
dark about them…likely to have traumatic histories.” Papadopoulos connected
Diana’s star quality with her trauma this way: “Her sparkling disposition had a
sense of tragedy about it, her splendor was closely associated with disarming
simplicity, and her joy was almost visibly linked with her pain.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span><span style="font-family: times;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj--pvTFB4E0L-ewvoKZ0-duTqFjSTb9ryLG63fl8PQdL5QgYCpWQ-YG2StNPp9Bf1F8dXsrMGh90X1_oWtR4ovDct4LMKP9ny2j26qKtL9xnkiEiybx1QBO9nPh1XPPLWOwFBnWsBCpbhgZJ-pHpF02-qL8XUq2yobqRKuu-RPIrkoZqmfs2iVxBdSkw/s1400/Princess%20Diana%20shakes%20hands%20with%20an%20AIDS%20patient%20without%20gloves,%201991.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1400" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj--pvTFB4E0L-ewvoKZ0-duTqFjSTb9ryLG63fl8PQdL5QgYCpWQ-YG2StNPp9Bf1F8dXsrMGh90X1_oWtR4ovDct4LMKP9ny2j26qKtL9xnkiEiybx1QBO9nPh1XPPLWOwFBnWsBCpbhgZJ-pHpF02-qL8XUq2yobqRKuu-RPIrkoZqmfs2iVxBdSkw/w200-h144/Princess%20Diana%20shakes%20hands%20with%20an%20AIDS%20patient%20without%20gloves,%201991.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">Diana greeting and shaking<br />hands with AIDS patient.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">Yet the other side
of the meaning of <i>teiro</i>, Papadopoulos explained, is also a reference to
“healing and rubbing away the effects of pain and anguish. In other words, in
addition to their external twinkling grandeur, stars could be the agents of
both distress and healing.” Clearly with Diana, healing was part of her
spiritual mission in life and death. In life, she demonstrated the nature of
loving touch and attention; when her death cracked open hearts around the world,
a deep cleansing began in the soul of humanity. Diana’s “radiating shine,” as
Papadopoulos defined it, spread far and wide, “affecting the widest possible
variety of people”…no one was left out. And twenty or so years after her death,
Diana’s sons, left traumatized and suffering as boys, found their way, through
love, especially the loving support of their wives, to healing their own mental
and emotional anguish—and courageously shared about their experiences as a
healing gesture to help others find their way to wholeness, and to love. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibTQ8IjRbHI2mo6bBrjw0PY2i_NW-54MbsE_6QTWmYCkf1a_waN_oQgev2oRkCccv6I4unQiMk1L2ZQ4XMF0979a6EDXORYBF_yGBYn7tZ2LFpq85rkKm7etNOLiZVoQmpAACNTOobvVKW4GL9xBoDV0Ty6dcY5F0nJet8IC3jcCRqdmkckr7zwDTg8g/s1248/-99683.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="1248" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibTQ8IjRbHI2mo6bBrjw0PY2i_NW-54MbsE_6QTWmYCkf1a_waN_oQgev2oRkCccv6I4unQiMk1L2ZQ4XMF0979a6EDXORYBF_yGBYn7tZ2LFpq85rkKm7etNOLiZVoQmpAACNTOobvVKW4GL9xBoDV0Ty6dcY5F0nJet8IC3jcCRqdmkckr7zwDTg8g/w200-h113/-99683.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Indeed, being an advocate for mental health has become the main focus of Prince Harry's work, using his 'star' quality to draw attention to the well-being of others. ~</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554153121297452740.post-60450705470510446722022-04-06T14:28:00.001-04:002022-05-23T14:11:35.201-04:00Downton Abbey Returns...with a Wedding!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmoraDWd1NeX6wfMm8jOoKtzZCjg8EHWYdfzuYzJoJRIp_YCYBwMaEYOzrU9Teo63Emmsopo0Ne_kVvDgFgoiY_S0mU_ReTCR7dmCnxkMYjeTkc81Kh3PynzrQglsROwzaihsE_PraoRKNueziXFmk5KoJT1sOmn6jsW5hOVO-O4_MzkZLx7YABdhHZQ/s385/Downton_Abbey_A_New_Era.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="259" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmoraDWd1NeX6wfMm8jOoKtzZCjg8EHWYdfzuYzJoJRIp_YCYBwMaEYOzrU9Teo63Emmsopo0Ne_kVvDgFgoiY_S0mU_ReTCR7dmCnxkMYjeTkc81Kh3PynzrQglsROwzaihsE_PraoRKNueziXFmk5KoJT1sOmn6jsW5hOVO-O4_MzkZLx7YABdhHZQ/w269-h400/Downton_Abbey_A_New_Era.jpg" width="269" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">T</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">he movies love weddings and <i><b>Downton Abbey</b></i> fans had several family ceremonies (and wonderful costumes) to enjoy during the run of their popular television series. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We love weddings too! One of my most popular presentations as a guest speaker has been "Vintage Inspiration: The Brides of <i>Downton Abbey</i>"...sharing the inspiration of the show's costume designers in creating Lady Mary's, Lady Edith's, Lady Rose's and all the circa 1920s wedding gowns we saw through the years. (And I also shared a bit of costume history to tie it all together!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbGwuUJxkgNSOUcVOkWVh4AmEwlzFyjmFN2NhBUZC-wEvnh5O8L20f_oEeIlKorxRYt-g6QWAQHq27NbUgISXZG4VurvTkisxWABa2limGW8eK-h7eRg4zwGV1rTeA-Sod1NJLgtPYdia2rLakOGwFEj6FKKvGyTrYaSaKRscy7rUUKwVYAmfRcoFS0Q/s600/brides%20of%20da%20-%20vintage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbGwuUJxkgNSOUcVOkWVh4AmEwlzFyjmFN2NhBUZC-wEvnh5O8L20f_oEeIlKorxRYt-g6QWAQHq27NbUgISXZG4VurvTkisxWABa2limGW8eK-h7eRg4zwGV1rTeA-Sod1NJLgtPYdia2rLakOGwFEj6FKKvGyTrYaSaKRscy7rUUKwVYAmfRcoFS0Q/w400-h300/brides%20of%20da%20-%20vintage.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Now with the upcoming new </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i>Downton Abbey</i></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> movie (to be released in the UK later this month and in the US on May 20), we'll have another family wedding! </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLw8VZNWESdY2oLldv6MRlMJ8870vAtBT5XkK11Tyti5fQyHAbgVWhyrn-g4i5K_DD4ERehTBMc9VV2mniqWfeApHoTa6eHQ1o1uQfF-ZhLES3Zsa5ZYdoCaBslV1XL2XTBO3VUDgEta9vrgoyH4CGrsiblv28u5rc1nTRyaxtR-qwoo8PnlhQU795qg/s970/2022.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="970" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLw8VZNWESdY2oLldv6MRlMJ8870vAtBT5XkK11Tyti5fQyHAbgVWhyrn-g4i5K_DD4ERehTBMc9VV2mniqWfeApHoTa6eHQ1o1uQfF-ZhLES3Zsa5ZYdoCaBslV1XL2XTBO3VUDgEta9vrgoyH4CGrsiblv28u5rc1nTRyaxtR-qwoo8PnlhQU795qg/w400-h225/2022.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Wedding scene from <i>Downton Abbey: A New Era</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Tom Branson (the widowed husband of the Crawley's youngest daughter, Sybil) marries Lucy Smith (who he met in the 2019 film and is the heir of Lady Bagshaw, Robert Crawley's cousin) and by the look of the fashions, it's a late 1920s wedding!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD8dZwFX9QEnP_J07vuni9wPViWQhZ1QQhnuMcSvQ40e2BGVGsL8L3B3N-1O-T9su3_7Ay8fZvsiu2TK6oG4Llfz8pMOYCP6LcUNkjW5VDPgxM-hT9FIkm88XqsleCMIL_fCySKvapVLXGXKwmEPl2pejHopwjE5BkPT51VeWDB52-JpwKZaPl5e4cbg/s970/2022%20cu.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="970" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD8dZwFX9QEnP_J07vuni9wPViWQhZ1QQhnuMcSvQ40e2BGVGsL8L3B3N-1O-T9su3_7Ay8fZvsiu2TK6oG4Llfz8pMOYCP6LcUNkjW5VDPgxM-hT9FIkm88XqsleCMIL_fCySKvapVLXGXKwmEPl2pejHopwjE5BkPT51VeWDB52-JpwKZaPl5e4cbg/w400-h225/2022%20cu.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Wedding scene from <i>Downton Abbey: A New Era</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Enjoy getting into that elegant 1920s vibe and ready for <b><i>Downton Abbey: A New Era</i></b>!</span></div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0