100 years

My cousin and I had some fun this afternoon. This sort of fun involved a chair, some antique books, 3 dresses spanning about 100 years of woman's fashions and a camera. Despite the heat the shade kept things feeling nice and we had a fun time with some great shots to prove it. Its hard as a photographer to explain why, when you can only show one pic (for now of course) you pick "that one". Other people can't necessarily see it-but you like it for whatever reason. So, since I only have time to put up one picture from each outfit I had to choose. I could try to say why I like each picture and picked it however I could say something about a number of pictures and I got so many I like its hard to say why I picked these three. Suffice it to say, this photographer has chosen three pictures for now and I hope you enjoy them! I will be uploading more soon (as well as some from a fantastic shoot I had with some delectable cupcakes) and you will be able to see perhaps why these three made the fist showing list.


This Victorian style gown used to be mine. I picked it up at Goodwill to wear to a birthday party and its been hanging in a closet ever since. It was put to some good use today as my lovely cousin donned it for these picture-perfect shots.

This plaid dress also used to be mine. I made it from a vintage 50's pattern out of $1 rack fabric from Wal-Mart.
And lastly, this dress belongs to the young lady herself. Purchased from Francesca's at The Falls in Miami.

The chair has been in my mom's room since we lived in West Palm Beach and it has always been promised to become mine when I get married and move out. So for now, its my prop :) The three books are Leonie, A Fair Barbarian and A Girl of the Limberlost. All are antique books from the 1800's and were purchased from Givens Books.