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Wrington Web Archive Wrington's own Fete Champetre team Saturday, 20th July, 2002 |
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Wrington Web Archive Wrington's own Fete Champetre team Saturday, 20th July, 2002 |
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Fete Champetre - Stourhead Gardens
" A Royal Celebration" Andrew Tandy writes: "Having previously attended this event a number of us decided it would be nice to go as one theme. |
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| We started to discuss this at Easter, given the amount of work involved we should have also started making the costumes then as well. We only finished on Wednesday night! ! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Anyway we had a design meeting and decided upon a deck of cards theme using just the royal cards.. We decided ladies would be dressed as hearts and diamonds whilst the men would be the clubs and spades. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Following many hours of cutting out stencils, painting and sewing, helped along by the odd glass of wine and a good laugh, the final product could now go to the ball! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Design team John & Lynne RUBIDGE Julie MARSHALL Jackie PLATT & Wendy TANDY. |
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| Production team Lynne RUBIDGE Jackie PLATT Wendy TANDY Maggie TAPSON Trish MONTGOMERY |
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| Thanks to John RUBIDGE for the blow ups of the playing cards Julie MARSHALL for the loan of her studio and Dave TOMLINSON for foam and material" |
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