{"id":842,"date":"2015-08-22T21:01:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T21:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/?p=842"},"modified":"2020-07-24T19:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T19:43:03","slug":"corsets-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Corsets and all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 My friends and I love the chance to dress us, so Nepal Leprosy Trust\u2019s (NLT&#8217;s) Vintage Afternoon Tea Party at the Celbridge Manor Hotel was the perfect opportunity. We thought we were doing well with our 1960s flowery outfits and hairbands but the Irish Historical Costumers\u00a0stole the show in their hand-made Victorian costumes. They wore bonnets, bodices, corsets and all. The tables were as colourful as the clothes. \u00c9clairs, iced cakes, scones and biscuits stood on tiered stands and hotel staff, also in vintage dress, served endless cups of tea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We enjoyed ourselves so much, chatting to people about their costumes and walking in the beautiful hotel grounds. The Nepali Handicraft stand and raffle were a great way to raise interest in Nepal. Vera\u2019s speech reminded us of the cause and encouraged people to support NLT, especially in the aftermath of the earthquakes. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">We all had a brilliant time and would gladly come to another fundraiser. By Emily Thomas, age 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tea-party15-LoRes_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-846\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tea-party15-LoRes_6.jpg\" alt=\"tea party15 LoRes_6\" width=\"594\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tea-party15-LoRes_6.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tea-party15-LoRes_6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tea-party15-loRes_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-847\" src=\"http:\/\/nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tea-party15-loRes_5.jpg\" alt=\"tea party15 loRes_5\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tea-party15-loRes_5.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tea-party15-loRes_5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above photos: by Emily Thomas. June 2015 \u00a9 NLT Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 My friends and I love the chance to dress us, so Nepal Leprosy Trust\u2019s (NLT&#8217;s) Vintage Afternoon Tea Party at the Celbridge Manor Hotel was the perfect opportunity. We thought we were doing well with our 1960s flowery outfits and hairbands but the Irish Historical Costumers\u00a0stole the show in their hand-made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/?p=842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Corsets and all&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nlt.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}