Victorian Winter warmers

With next weeks big freeze in mind, here’s some very seasonal Victorian photos taken for us by Lucas & Izabela Pitcher of Prior Attire.  We had a wonderful afternoon yesterday visiting them.

I had a late realisation at the end of last year that I was working outside during February half term 2016 at Audley End House in Essex and that I had no warm clothes to wear, apart from buying lots of thermal underwear, I was straight on the phone (or rather e-mail to Izabela, who fortunately had some pre made clothing in stock that matched the dress she had made me beautifully.  When I walked in her house and saw them on the chair I immediately fell in love with them.  It’s not very often in life that the thing we’re expecting is far better than you had imagined it to be but this was certainly the case.  I…