This is what I'll be wearing. Vintage Ossie Clark.....
So simple and elegant.
This is the ghost of my former self
who will dance with
a stunning assortment of dashing heros
like
Lord Byron
Prince Andrei
Maxim deWinter
and
Mr. Rochester
You know the usual litany of men to make women swoon
and so on and so on......
I have thought of three splendidly sentimental songs for slow dances
Some Enchanted Evening.....from South Pacific
Elvis's Can't Help Falling in Love with You
and James Blunt's lovely sappy You're Beautiful
Wish I had more time to prepare!
Some Enchanted Evening.....from South Pacific
Elvis's Can't Help Falling in Love with You
and James Blunt's lovely sappy You're Beautiful
Wish I had more time to prepare!
lovely dress and perfect music! enjoy!
ReplyDeleteE, I'm so happy to see you! You have a marvelous sense of style, my dear! The vintage dress is just perfect. I might just have to steal Mr. deWinter for just one little whirl around the dance floor. May I?
ReplyDeleteHi Elizabeth! With that romantic vintage dress, I think your dance card will be so full you will have to let your beau dance with Willow!
ReplyDeleteHow romantic ... how perfectly romantic and suited to YOU!
ReplyDeleteSounds so romantic, and your dress is beautiful:)
ReplyDeleteHave a nice day.
Berit.
Dear Elizabeth, I follow you on my main blog and was utterly surprised to see you at the Manor Ball!
ReplyDeleteLovely dress and I love Lord Byron!
What a wonderful dress, elegantly understated. I'm just like Sabrina, viewing the comings and goings of beautiful people at Willow Ball, from a tree limb outside Willow Manor.
ReplyDeleteThis is my first time visiting this blog, Elizabeth, and wonderful it is!
The Lord is penalty...such a dear...bkm
ReplyDeleteLove the dress....and there is nothing sappy about James Blunt...not even the song! Is he coming to the ball as well?
ReplyDeleteSee you there!
It is so lovely to see you. Willow has out done herself this ball is just divine!
ReplyDeleteGreat choice. I'll be looking for you. From under a table somewhere...
ReplyDeleteVery femine choice, I like it
ReplyDeleteElizabeth...always so stylish, so romantic, so literary, so witty and above all such fun. How utterly lovely you looked in your Ossie..and oh, oh the men you had surrounding you. Quite dizzy making, my dearest. (I've always had a bit of a thing about Maxim. I confess I was curiously inarticulate when he asked me to dance!)
ReplyDeleteLove your choice of music for the slow numbers. I rather like 'Some Enchanted Evening'...my parents' song. Oddly enough, they met at a ball in Johannesburg, she a vision in Schiapparelli pink and he rather gasp-makingly handsome. Love at first glimpse across the room and all that romantic bruhaha. Wonderful.
Love that dress. I had a similar one when I lived in England, was pregnant and had the accompanying cleavage to set it off!
ReplyDeleteI am sure you did not get to miss a single dance!
ReplyDeleteoh,
ReplyDeleteelizabeth,
the photo of you
is
perfection!
:-)
{{ ahhh...
if you only knew
THEN
what you know
NOW... }}
I hope you enjoyed the ball, Ossie Clark went to the same art college as me, he was the star pupil. No doubt you were the belle of the ball!
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