Bath: Day 12

Hola Familia!

I must thank the U.S. because you guys definitely sent us all your summer weather in exchange for the god awful English weather. Forecast says sun and about 70 until next thursday...woohoo! Making full use of that while we are in London this weekend!

Okay, so I should probably explain the image to the right, yes? Yes. So this is in the Fashion Museum in Bath. We went with my Jane Austen class to check out some of the Regency wear from the Jane Austen time period. I have NO idea how those women wore this kind of stuff. Not only could I not breathe in that dumb corset (it probably could have even gone tighter, but I would have been less a rib or two...), but that skirt is like a giant version of the cones they put on dogs. I seriously couldn't move an inch without knocking someone over that made the mistake of venturing in my circumference. Imagine balls where every woman and girl was wearing that hoop skirt under their dresses. How could you even get NEAR your dancing partner?! Maybe that was the idea? Tricky..
Some of the other dresses we saw from the Victorian era were just plain ridiculous. One looked like a toaster. It jutted out like two feet on the sides in a rectangular fashion. The others had these awful bustles that made even the skinniest stick look like she had a badonk-a-donk. Baby got back, indeed.

There were also displays of "modern" fashion (I honestly believe, to be a fashion designer requires no eye for taste or practicality). And the coolest part was that were got to go in the Assembly Rooms. That is where all the dancing (sweating, fainting, dying, etc.) and gossiping took place. Even though these rooms are huge on any scale, these people would pack themselves in to be seen in society. The gossip-mongers would stand at the top on the balconies to look down and scope out who was dancing with who, who was talking with whom...yadda, yadda. Pre-Whisteria Lane. But oh my gosh, these rooms are stunning. The chandeliers still had places for actual candles, the crown molding and the attention to detail everywhere is just magnificent. I would brave the heat and exhaustion to dance there for sure.

After my adventure, I went to the train station to get our tickets for London. Had my Sherlock Holmes class (not much to report there), wrapped up my revisions for my Holmes paper due tomorrow, wrote and revised my Austen paper due tomorrow and I am now relaxing. Had biscotti gelato today- to die for.

Okay, it's time for some shut-eye.
Cheerio!