So exciting
Time to flex out my historic knowledge

I actually entered this contest - first time since the last fiasco I experienced with fashion shows. Here's hoping it goes smoother than the previous shows I've observed/participated in!
(and Sierra, my entry is wearing a bun updo with a hat over it - you can't see the bun, but I guess they just mean your doll's hair needs to be up and not flowing down?)

Does anyone know where the Byzantine store is O.o'!! That store isn't open in my shop - unless if it is combined with another store???

Thanks for the help in advance :)!!!

snortmort wrote:

Hi, diamondz07 - Byzantine's creations have been combined with several others' in the shop called "Stylist Center". When you hover your mouse over the thumbnails of the items available for purchase in this shop, a pop-up over your mouse will tell you who designed the piece - you just need to make sure you buy one piece labelled "Byzantine" for the contest :)

(all of the items currently showing on the home page for the Stylist Center (newest items) are by Byzantine!)

Thank you soo much!! <3

I am in complete agreement. I was going through voting this morning and I seen quite a few with a simple dress that was already made. How is that creative? And the Back doll ones irk me. I though this was suppose to be our doll, not one of the models?

Hm, is an umbrella compulsory? I know I added one so it doesn't affect me at all- however I read that this is ''advice'' only above;  as far as I am aware, not all Victorian outfits that women wore back in the days had to an umbrella with it ^^
Just thinking that MANY entries would be disregarded if moderators were to act and remove them (leaving only a couple of entries within the contest) so people would just keep seeing the same dolls pop up in the voting phrase..

But yep, other than that, I agree that dolls who didn't the basic rules stated above should be disqualified.

littlemandy wrote:

Hm, is an umbrella compulsory? I know I added one so it doesn't affect me at all- however I read that this is ''advice'' only above;  as far as I am aware, not all Victorian outfits that women wore back in the days had to an umbrella with it ^^
Just thinking that MANY entries would be disregarded if moderators were to act and remove them (leaving only a couple of entries within the contest) so people would just keep seeing the same dolls pop up in the voting phrase..

But yep, other than that, I agree that dolls who didn't the basic rules stated above should be disqualified.

From watching various movies or TV series set in that time period, some of the ladies would carry an umbrella to shield their delicate skin from the sun. Of course, if they were caught in a 'toad strangler' of a downpour, their lacy accent wouldn't do a lick of good in protecting them from the rain.

april wrote:

Don't forget the crinoline skirts some of those balloonlike a hoop skirt way too much! And the last loft show had a lot of nonpirate rooms and 3rd place didn't have the required seabird! Its a tough job to catch them so we should be more careful when we enter. If someone makes a mistake they can request to be disqualified so they can reenter correctly

I've seen a lot of crinoline and Civil War hoop skirts.  And one thing a Victorian dress should NOT be showing would be skin... they had high collars, they surely wouldn't be showing their cleavage like the doll in a black dress is.

This pictures below show them with a bustles on the back.

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