Alberta Vintage Roses (Edmonton Chapter) Victrola & Croquet Spring Pie Picnic

As promised, here are some photos of the First Annual Victrola & Croquet Spring Pie Picnic, put on by the Edmonton Chapter of the Alberta Vintage Roses in Dick Mather Gazebo Park, next to McKay Avenue School (you shall surely recognize my vintage gal pals Bailey, Erin, and Laurie from previous outing posts).

  

My outfit details: I donned my 1930s floral cotton (feedsack?) dress, 30s crocheted hat, Re-mix 'Emily' shoes, and 30s celluloid glasses (though one of the lenses was cracked and fully broke on the way to the picnic..boo!).

Gatsby Glitz and Flapper Pie

I know the Baz Luhrmann adaptation of The Great Gatsby opened in theatres yesterday. Did I go? Not yet. Will I love it? I will not say for sure until I have seen it, but the images of the costumes and such are not thrilling the fashion historian/1920s & 30s purist in me.  I do like electro-swing music and vintage/modern musical mash-up videos, so that part of the whole endeavour might not bother me.  In fact, I guess I will confess I rather like a video for Fergie and Goon Rock's song, "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody" I stumbled on the other day (it's one of several modern songs on the soundtrack I don't mind admitting I like---feel free to stop following me if this revelation horrifies you LOL).  Anywhooo, HAD I dressed up and gone to see the film on opening night, I might have worn something like the 1910s beaded belt from my shop (as a headband of course), along with my 20s/30s marcasite ring that I got in Montreal, and probably the 20s black velvet & white fur trimmed jacket over a black 20s dress).  Instead, I was in my pyjamas last night and this morning making a Canadian Prairie treat known as FLAPPER PIE for a Vintage Victrola & Croquet Picnic Party this afternoon (I also made a gluten free lattice top triple berry pie). Photos of the picnic are forthcoming....