The regency dress project was already an idea about 2 years ago. I had been a ‘smuggler’ with Commercial Square Bonfire Society for 2 years, and I quite fancied having a more interesting costume.
There are so many smugglers, you are always at the back of the processions, which means you don’t get to see anything and you’re surrounded by youths all out to drop as many ‘rookies’ (very loud bangers) as possible. Plus, in 2006 I’d had a particularly bad time in the ranks with a very drunk girl causing problems. So I did plan to make a costume for 2007 Bonfire, but with one thing and another I never managed it.
But by spring of 2008, I was already talking about the Regency costume I was planning, and this time it was going to happen.
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