Very pleased to make your acquaintance [mrsp]

[Mrs Parker]

Good day. My name is Pamela, also known as Mrs. Parker.

I am excessively fond of Regency clothing and would be pleased to wear it daily, were it practical. Alas, we have but few opportunities in southern Kansas to don our Austen era garb.

This is the total contents of our Regency closet:


As I milliner, I enjoy immensely the opportunity to re-create Regency headwear and do so whenever possible.

Thank you for allowing me to join your company.

Pamela
Mrs. Parker's Millinery
www.victorianbonnets.com

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[Mme de Beaufort]

Your husband cuts a very handsome figure, Mrs. Parker; goodness me. Your costumes are quite fantastic; and your bonnet is lovely. I'd love to see a side-view.

Do share your bonnet-making expertise; we shall wolf it up with avarice here, guaranteed.

[Edit: oh, wait, nevermind... I clicked on your website (where I've been before begging for patterns), and saw your bonnet. Holy gorgeous!!!]

[Mrs Parker]

You are far too kind.

Mr Parker is excessively fond of himself in his Regency finery and is eager to attend a Regency ball.
We used to do English country dance when we lived in Los Angeles but have nothing to do here but Victorian social dance, which Mr P teaches.

The bonnet is a rendition of one in the collection of MFA Boston. Cosmo posted a link to it elsewhere. It was a lot of fun to work it out.

[The Major]

Dear Mrs. Parker,

Welcome to the RSA Community Board. I believe you will find a very polite society here. Everyone is so very helpful. The ladies here are wonderful and the gentlemen are just that. I hope I can say that we look forward to some tips from you also. Your bonnets look wonderful. And do let Mr. Parker know he too is welcome.

If you should happen across a Regency Ball in your area or north, please let us know. I am a neighbor to your north and would love to attend a Ball as well. Good people like to dance, and they always do.

Again, welcome. I look forward to your participation in our polite society.

[cosmoblue]

Hello Pamela, It is lovely that you have joined our little group. I cannot tell you how excited I am to see that you are a milliner. Welcome.

[Val]

Welcome to the group, Mrs. P. I've run across you before on other Yahoo Groups, 19th Century Woman or Reenactment Ladies, I believe.
I love the picture you have on Mrs Parker's Mercantile.
I hope you enjoy our conversations and attempts to learn this era.

[Miss Credit]

Welcome Mrs. P, very pleased to meet you! Like Val, I do think I have come across you on a few Yahoo Groups, Reenactment Ladies maybe? I am very excited to hear you are a milliner, my bonnet making skills are few and far between, do please enlighten us with your millinery knowledge.

Yet again, very pleased to meet you, I hope you find this board and its people as lovely and as helpful as I do.

[Mrs Parker]

Thank you all for your very kind welcome. Yes, I am on a few of the Yahoo boards. I don't have a lot of time to read or post during bonneting season. Bonnets must be made for ladies with bare heads.

If you are building a bonnet and find yourself at a brick wall, please send me an email to alert me to the problem infoSPLAThistorichats.net and I will do my best to assist. I have to reserve a few of my trade secrets. I'm sure you understand.

I've posted a preview of a new stovepipe bonnet on my site: victorianbonnets.com/regency-1820%27shats%26bonnets.htm
She isn't finished yet but I'd love to hear your opinions.

[dawnluckham]

Hello Pam! I'm so glad you've joined this group.

I've been drooling over the bonnet you wear on your web site page. Positively lovely! Did you work with one of the bonnets from the MFA site as inspiration? I certainly see the similarity!

I post very occasionally on Elizabeth Stewart Clark's site as "Acacia."

[Mrs Parker]

Hi, Dawn. I remember you from ESC's board. I haven't seen you there in awhile. I usually stay with "outerwear" since that's where bonnets are discussed.

The bonnet in my photo is based on this one: tinyurl.com/ypskbz . Cosmo has posted it in her bonnet inspirations thread.

[dawnluckham]

That's the one! ;D Beautiful job!!! I just love it.

Now, did you have the opportunity to study the original or did you work from the photo on the web site?

If you did get to visit the lovely original, I'd love to know any interesting details you may have noted (if you're able to share).

[Mrs Parker]

Alas, I was only able to work from the single photo. While museum collections are useful, they can be very frustrating when there is only one view of something, especially when there's also a head stuck in the middle of it. LOL

[missjulia]

Mrs. Parker,

i had a chance to wander around your shop yesterday afternoon, i had actually found it before
searching for bonnets. they are incredibly lovely, all of them. i think last time i had not seen
the straw shaped bonnets, or ventured further than 1840's. i love that beautiful little cap for
civil war! it is the incarnation of those in ladies magazines.

i wonder if you would consider a trade? a fine indian shawl for a bonnet?

and not least, i am happy to do errands searching for silks if you let me know what
you are looking for,

yrhs,
julia

[Mrs Parker]

Thank you. You must mean the little pork pie. I wish my teeth were not so long as to preclude my wearing one of those.

Hmm. Miss Julia, you tempt me greatly with your most generous offer of a shawl. When do you plan to return home and when do you anticipate your bonnet would be required?

[missjulia]

it was the 'emma' i meant, is that a pork pie? it just makes me think of Godey's Ladies magazine.

i can't honestly be sure when i will return home, it all depends on making enough to
move, so that is an unknown. on the good side, though i covet a bonnet, i'm not in any
due hurry as it may not be until next season that i can attend any events, so you
would be at your leisure to create it.

i would happily send you the silk, so your expense be the labor, which i think
is considerable.

[Mrs Parker]

Miss Julia, the EMMA bonnet is very late CW moving into the reconstruction era. She's a proper bonnet where the PEGGY is a porkpie hat. We can work out the details via email and save our fellows the tedium of our arrangements. mrsparkerSPLAThistorichats.net.

Yours, &c.

Mrs P