Shoes and Mitts

My last post was very long.  This one is short... but part of the update from the last post.

I finished my crocheted lace mitts:

I may add wrist ties (they were included in the pattern), as the wrinkles mid-wrist kinda bother me.  

I also bought shoes!  Here's a picture:

The shoes for the outfit are on the right, as are the stockings (in a package).  The adorable gray flats' kitten faces are in sparkly crystals.  I'm not a big cat fan, but these flats were too cute to pass up!  (and they were on sale) I haven't worn them yet... soon!!

Original shoes were very similar... pointy toes, flats, etc.  I would have preferred boots, but finding boots today that look like ones from the early 1800s are difficult, and expensive.  Sigh...

 

Gorgeous!  I should decorate my new shoes, but I want to wear them afterwards with pants, so I think I'll leave them plain for now.  

These were called "half-boots", kind of what we call a bootie these days.  

Oops! I forgot!!

My last post was so long that I forgot to discuss one more detail of my ensemble:  Gloves.

Regency women had a lot of gloves.  Long, elbow-length gloves for evening, short leather gloves for warmth outdoors, lacy little mitts to keep hands warm but fingers free, etc.  

I should wear gloves with my outfit.  But... I'm not a glover, even though I know how, and I can work with leather.  Being ambitious, I have ordered leather for making gloves, however... I only have a month!  So I have also bought a digital pattern to make lacy fingerless mitts.  I can work on those while watching TV at night, so it's more likely I will make those than real gloves.  But... we'll see!  

Here's a picture of the mitt pattern:

Keeping it short and sweet!  Back to cleaning my worktable....