#cloche
Taking outfit pictures late in the afternoon makes pretty dramatic lighting…
Skirt: Pink Martini (1861)
Blouse: FFXXI
Cardigan: earth, music and ecology
Hat: Rudsak
Socks: Grimoire (too bad we can’t see them)
Boots: Sperry Top-Sider
Bag: Axes Femme
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I got bored and made some hats.
Ce matin, les Journées Européennes du Patrimoine m'ont emmené en haut du clocher de l'église de Plobannalec.
A little crochet cloche for my baby girl makes my heart smile. Especially when it has a bow.
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An ice storm is on its way. This, after two polar vortexes in January and a two-inch snowfall that paralyzed Atlanta’s roadways for 24 hours. Thank goodness for primroses (Primula vulgarism) - just in time for an icy, snow-bitten Valentine’s Day.
It’s still too early for spring bulbs to appear from beneath the frozen tundra, so I brought home a few primroses from the local garden center to brighten an otherwise grim growing season. I dressed up an old vintage plant stand with terra cotta pots and filled them with primroses. Then I tucked a couple of plants into milk glass vessels that I keep on hand for various flower projects. The snow-white milk glass is such a pretty contrast to plant materials, and the primroses are no exception. For a tabletop centerpiece, I placed a pretty red primrose under a garden cloche for Valentine’s Day. What better way to spend the next two weeks, than under the influence of primroses?
Because primroses like cool temperatures and moist soil conditions, they are an easy flower to grow this time of year. The garden doesn’t offer a lot of color in February, so the first burst of spring usually comes in the form of primroses. As the garden starts to break out of winter, group primroses in planters with violets and pansies, all of which are edible flowers if you grow them organically (I use an organic cow manure tea from Authentic Haven Brand to keep my primroses blooming over a long period of time). Add organically-grown flower petals to salads, pasta dishes, or desserts for subtle, colorful flavors from the garden. Freeze the petals in ice cube trays for fruity beverages, or dry them to use in tea, but introduce them sparingly to guard against possible allergic reaction.
“Primrose” comes from Medieval Latin: prīma rosa, or “first rose.” They are my first flowers every spring.
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Phryne’s fourth outfit of “Framed for Murder” (Season 2, Episode 9) is a beautiful blue velvet coat with a matching cloche, over a black camisole and her classic silk faille pants with bejeweled blue heels.
An elegant follow-up to her gorgeous gold gown, Miss Fisher dons a coat made of an azure blue velvet with marabou down trim on wide lapels. The sleeves also feature the marabou down trim above the elbow before the velvet continues to her forearms and splits at the cuff. The coat is held closed by an ornate enamel buckle costume designer Marion Boyce found in an antique store.
Her hat is a matching blue felt cloche with an antique feather band. According to the official Pinterest:“While we were filming in Queenscliff, Victoria, a stranger donated a selection of her grandmother’s old 1960s hats to our designer. Luckily one of the felt hats matched Phryne’s blue velvet jacket perfectly.”
The hat itself was extended, made deeper, and reshaped to become a cloche. The designers took authentic 1920’s feathers from another hat and added a fascinator made of velvet loops and a metal button.
Underneath, Phryne wears a black silk camisole with scalloped edging and dark wide-legged pants. She accessorizes with navy gloves, teardrop onyx earrings, and glittering navy t-strap heels (seen at the Costume Exhibition here on Dayna’s blog).
Season 2, Episode 9 - “Framed for Murder”
Promotional photos from the official Facebook(x,x,x,x,x) and a variety of sources (x,x). Hat and coat buckle photos (x,x) from the official Pinterest.
Miss Fisher’s sixth outfit worn in “Blood of Juana the Mad” (Season 2, Episode 8) is a rich brown tweed coat, a black blouse with necktie underneath, and paired with her classic black pants, a silk scarf and a beautiful felt cloche.
Dressed for both business and action, Phryne sports an elegant full-length tweed coat made with an array of various threads in shades of brown, tan, and russet colors. It has a single wooden button at the waistline, with long lapels and a standing collar, as well as two lines of dark pink piping going down the back, and along the sides as well as lining the short belt and decorative buttons in the back as well.
Underneath she wears a v-neck black blouse with a long tie in the front, seen previously in 2x06 and in the same style as her white blouse in 2x07, as well as her silk faille black pants. She accessorizes with a pair of amber teardrop earrings, worn previously in 2x06, black gloves, dark heels, and a silk scarf with orange on one side and a matte red on the other, with long fringe on the ends.
The scarf picks up the beautiful colors of the feathered adornment on her deep pink felt cloche. The hat itself was sourced from America and features a combination of antique and modern feathers in a variety of pink, orange, and purple colors. It is decorated with a pink ribbon hatband and a gold hatpin as well.
Season 2, Episode 8 - “The Blood of Juana the Mad”
Screencaps from here, promotional photos from the official Miss Fisher Facebook (x,x,x), hat photo anddetail photo from the official PinterestandLoran’s World.
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The seventh ensemble Miss Fisher wears in “Blood at the Wheel” (Season 2, Episode 7) is her classic red plaid tweed jacket and skirt, along with two different red hats, and red leather gloves and purse.
Phryne’s luxurious red plaid jacket and skirt is a great example of 1920′s tailored suits for women. The fur-trimmed jacket is cut in straight lines with double-breasted buttons and a matching belt across the hips. The belt buckle itself is a brass imprint of a Pharaoh’s head set against a black background. Her knee-length plaid skirt is made of the same fabric and has two box pleats in the front.
We’ve seen this suit jacket and skirt combination twice before, in both 1x04and1x05, both worn with the red felt flower cloche she first wears in Jack’s office.
Interestingly, Miss Fisher wears two different red hats with this outfit. The first one is her red cloche with flower detailing created with both feathers and felt worn as she consults with Jack about the Adventuress’ Club records. This cloche is one of Phryne’s favorites, appearing in twicein 1x01,1x02,twice in 1x04,1x05,1x06,1x09, and here.
Her second hat, also made of a red felt, is a cloche with a bonnet-like brim that frames her face well and has three ribbons in cream, red, and black wrapping around the top of the hat, complementing the three interlocking cream, red, and black felt circles. It was worn in the opening scene of 1x05, but has changed a bit since then. In 1x05 and on Mandy Murphy Millinery’s website, it has one set of plain circles on each side of the hat. Here in 2x07, the ribbons are closer together and the ends are flared at the edges, and both sets of circles have been moved to the right side and decorated with a series of black beads across the interconnecting lines.
She accessorizes with matching red leather driving gloves and a red leather handbag, as well as her bronze triangular earrings, seen on the right side of the Costume Exhibition photo.
Screencaps from here, promotional photos from the official Facebook(x,x,x), hat and jewelry photos from the official Pinterest(x,x,x) and Mandy Murphy Millinery website.
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