The exhibition features many of the beautiful and glorious costumes from the
television series based on the
books by Kerry Greenwood. I love, love, love the books and the series is, well, good enough I suppose! I'm the sort of person who likes books to be adapted into series and films with
nothing altered. The series is light and silly and it's fun to see the characters come to life.
First stop, tea and scones. And some photos, of course.
Boots & tights - old
Cameo necklace - gift from Jay
Upon entering the mansion (a situation in which I find myself every day, darling) we were delighted to discover a rack of coats, capes and feather boas, accompanied by a bowlful of fascinators and headbands, available purely for the purpose of dressing up and getting into the swing of things.
How could we resist?
One of the actual costumes is shown behind us here.
As you can see, I was not enjoying myself at all. And is that an admirer in the background?
One of my usuals, no doubt.
Time to get down to business and see the exhibition. Sadly, no other photography was permitted, so here are some of the costumes we saw, as shown in the souvenir booklet.
If you are not able to visit the exhibit I can only highly recommend watching the series to see more of the costumes, as they are quite exquisite.
The exhibition was spread out through several rooms, with headless bodies and large (fake) knives lying around in abundance. I'd never been to Rippon Lea before, and seeing the house was as much of a treat as seeing the costumes.
After the exhibit we took a stroll around the gardens. We couldn't have picked a better day for it.
I was very excited by everything we saw.
"A bridge! Someone take my photo with this bridge!"
"A tree! Someone take my photo with this tree! It's huge!"
"OMG! A seat! Wait! Wait! I need a photo with this seat!"
I ended up with almost 200 photos. I was a happy little black duck.
