Originally posted to the web in News, on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:17 AM CST.
Invitation to a wedding, Victorian style
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Those who love history and fashion won’t want to miss the Victorian Wedding Fashion Event being presented by the Prescott Victorian Society and Las Senoras de Socorro at the Wickenburg Community Center Saturday, Jan. 31 from 1 to 3 p.m.
There will be ladies and gentlemen dressed in fashions from 1860 to 1910, including the butler, chambermaid, and the milliner arriving to show various models of hats to the bride’s mother. Once engaged, the Victorian bride-to-be was not to be seen out in public until the wedding!
This event is not only for women; there will be many gentlemen modeling the latest in Victorian fashion, and even an authentic high-wheeled tricycle being ridden around the auditorium. The tricycle was less risky than the high-wheeled bicycle, so was preferred by ladies and more dignified gentlemen such as doctors and clergymen. Bicycles were so popular in the 1880s and 1890s that cyclists formed the League of American Wheelmen (still in existence and now called the League of American Bicyclists) and lobbied for better roads, literally paving the road for the automobile.
Plan for an afternoon of entertainment and enlightenment. A portion of the profits goes to benefit the Desert Caballeros Western Museum. Tickets are $25 and are available at all three museum stores or at the door for $30. For more information, call 684-0959 or catch us in future editions of The Sun.
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