{Press Release for Downton Abbey Soiree at High Hampton Inn in Cashiers, NC}
A Downton Abbey inspired Afternoon Tea to benefit the Cashiers Valley
Community Council is planned this summer at the High Hampton Inn Pavilion in
Cashiers, North Carolina. As guest speaker, costume historian, wedding
folklorist and author Cornelia Powell brings her Downton Abbey costume expertise to this elegant fundraiser on June
23, 2015.
Ms. Powell was guest
speaker at the prestigious Winterthur Museum last year during their “Costumes of
Downton Abbey” exhibition and at the “Dressing Downton” exhibit at Biltmore
House this past spring in Asheville, North Carolina. (Some may know Cornelia from
her nationally celebrated bridal art-to-wear store in Buckhead Atlanta in the 1980s
and ‘90s.)
Full of Downton charm and
vintage elegance, the afternoon’s festivities, from 2 to 5 pm, include a talk
and PowerPoint presentation by Ms. Powell, a book signing (of her recently
released book, The End of the Fairy-Tale
Bride {Volume One} For Better or Worse, How Princess Diana Rescued the Great
White Wedding), shopping at a “Vintage Collections” pop-up boutique, a
delicious afternoon tea, as well as fabulous door prizes from our sponsors!
Ms. Powell’s presentation, “Fashioning
Downton: The Costumes and the Characters”—complete with beautiful images and
delightful commentary—shares intriguing behind-the-scene stories from the
show’s costume designers about creating clothes for the rituals of an aristocratic
lifestyle. She explains how the talented
designers (with their passion for luscious texture, vintage accuracy and
attention to detail) beautifully “translate” fashions from these historically
pivotal times when the world was becoming modern in a thousand dazzling ways.
Tickets
for this Downton-style benefit are $75.00 and available at event sponsors: High
Hampton Inn, GG’s Consignments, The Consignment Market, Victoria’s Closet/V.C.
for Men, and Cashiers Chamber of Commerce. For more information, contact Diane
Stumm, 828 226 4411. 
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