The outing for which I planned to wear my updated 1815 Tree Gown was an afternoon of croquet and house tours at Roseland Cottage: a joint event hosted by The Footwork & Frolick Society and Historic New England (the organization that runs Roseland Cottage).
Roseland Cottage is a lovely pink house in Woodstock, CT that was built in 1846 by the Bowen family (you can read more about thr history of the house here on the Historic New England website). I’ve been to the house before and posted about it on the blog — in a different post about playing croquet! That outing, which you can read about in this past post, was in 1860s clothes.
A rather moody looking Roseland Cottage on the day of this year’s outing is pictured below. It was overcast, which was nice because it wasn’t super hot, but we did have a fantastic rain and thunder storm roll through halfway through the event. Lightening struck the lawn outside of the house! Luckily, we knew it was coming and were able to transition indoors to play tabletop croquet and have tea. No one was rained on!
And I was pleased, because Roseland is lovely, the company was delightful, and my updated Tree Gown was freshly revived and very comfortable!
It felt important to show off the updated back of my gown for documentation here on the blog!
Roseland has a beautiful and well maintained garden, and in addition to that, I also appreciated the cute cart (detail photo below) full of additional flowers that was situated on the lawn. It made for a wonderful photo accessory, as you can see in the photo above!
As I mentioned in my post about altering the gown (linked at the top of this post), I’m so pleased to be able to give this dress extended life!
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