{"id":19325,"date":"2014-01-28T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T11:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=19325"},"modified":"2014-01-20T17:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T22:15:04","slug":"costumers-fantasy-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=19325","title":{"rendered":"Costumer’s Fantasy Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trystan (of Gothic Martha Stewart fame) is a costumer of some note, and has a brilliant idea for an offbeat vacation: Get together with a group of friends, rent a historical home, and dress in period costume for a couple of weeks. So far she’s done Blo Norton<\/a> in the U.K., Colonial Williamsburg<\/a> in Virginia, and Chateau de Pys<\/a> in France.<\/p>\n

She stresses that these trips do not require enormous amounts of money and time to accomplish, so they’re within the realm of possibility for us normal folks. She’s written a how-to guide<\/a> for planning a similar vacation (it was done for the online costuming magazine “Your Wardrobe Unlock’d” and requires a subscription to read, but access is only $5.97 for the first month and the back issues should make that cost worthwhile).<\/p>\n

There’s also a documentary about the Blo Norton trip, available on DVD<\/a>. Here’s a trailer:<\/p>\n

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If you’re a history or costuming buff, this would be a fascinating way to engage in a little faux time travel with like-minded friends. You could content yourself with dressing the part or go even further and try to live the period: Cooking from historical recipes, using only candles or oil lamps for light, and so forth. (I’d recommend drawing the line at the use of chamber pots.)<\/p>\n

Bonus link: Check out Trystan’s 18th Century Queen of Hearts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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