MISS POTTER

Watching Miss Potter I soon realised that an appleshape plus size person would not fit into the era fashion wise, without some cause for looks and sneers.  Unless you were below stairs staff, whereby you wouldn't have been noticed that much at all.

Upstairs however, you needed to be seen wearing a vast wardrobe as you could not be seen to wear the same formal wear to close together in attendance to functions, as someone, a woman no less, would comment "did she not wear that at Mrs So and So's function, how disgraceful, the family cannot be as affluent as they make out."  Tut tut tut!!!!!

The everyday wear appears to be pretty blouses tucked into long straight skirts made out of a suit type material, dull and hardwearing. ( A waist line is required to make sure the skirt is not to high or to low....what waistline??)

Thank goodness the formal dresses are made of flimsier material and very pretty, a vast difference from every day wear, as it should be. 

As usual there is a BUT.  The pattern of these lovely dresses dictate a waistline as they all have a waist line seam.  Not appropriate for someone such as me with the aforementioned body shape.

Back to the beginning.......Shame about the below stairs staff, they are the hub of every household and are people too, who care how they look, with little or no money or time to do anything about it, or is there a way for them........? 

Which brings me nicely onto the next segment.

The House of Elliot..................................................................