Dressed-to-a-Tea - Blog-a-thon Week 5

Week 5 of LaTeaDah's Tea Blog-a-Thon. This week we are to share our thoughts on dressing for tea time. Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of dressing up for tea time since my computer crashed a few months ago, and took my tea time photos with it.

I like to dress in something frilly when I go to a tea room. I would never wear jeans or shorts to a tea room, but I do wear slacks and a dressy blouse.

I think taking tea at a tea room, or a tea party at a friends house (or your own home) should be a special occasion and we should wear special clothes. A few years ago I was in a tea party club for three years. We had different themes for some of the tea parties, and we asked guests to wear certain colors or clothes. I had a yellow rose tea party and I asked the guests to wear yellow, or a color that goes well with yellow. Click here to see Yellow Rose Tea Party (Then click on Tea Parties, on the left, then go down to the 7th tea party.) Someday I would like to have a black and white tea party, and have people wear white or black.

I don’t usually wear a hat to a tea room, but I do think it is fun if they provide hats and boas for us to wear! My friends and I will always wear them. Once my husband took me to a tea room that provided hats for men as well as women. I wore a pretty fluffy hat, and he wore a fedora, it was perfect for him!

Now I must add that when possible, I am a person who loves to stay in my pj's till noon or later. So I do have tea in my pj's when I'm home alone!

I would like to share this with you:

The Story of “The Dress”

Here is a story about a special dress. A few years ago I saw this dress in my favorite boutique and drooled about it, but wouldn’t buy it because it cost too much. My husband heard me talking about it and he bought it for me! I thought I would wear it if we went on a cruise or to a special occasion, but we haven’t done either. Living in Florida where everything is mostly casual I haven’t had an opportunity to wear it. My husband is a little upset that I’ve never worn it yet, but I just don’t feel like wearing it somewhere that I would feel overdressed.

Soon I will be going to my high school class reunion and I thought I would wear it there, but they voted to wear business attire for the reunion, and this dress certainly isn’t business attire!

It is a two-piece dress. I left the photos large so you can click on them and see the detail, the lace color is ecru.

I hope sometime soon I will have an opportunity to wear my pretty dress!

Katherine