Guilty Pleasures

It all started when I was researching wedding veils and hats of the 1920's for a novel I'm working on. You see, one of the characters. a young woman more interested in pursuing her law studies than in planning her wedding, unexpectedly falls in love with a vintage 1920's dress her father's girlfriend has offered to loan her to wear to the engagement party. The owner of the dress knows it is going to look splendid on the young woman but is as surprised as she when the girl, amazed at her appearance in the dress, says it's so beautiful it could be a wedding dress. Wide-eyed at the sudden inspiration, she turns to Dad's girlfriend to ask, "Could I wear this to be married in?" And there in a flash the girl has made the first decision about her wedding. It's something she's been putting off even while getting pressured by her future mother-in-law who, having had only one child, a male, is eager to plan the fantastic wedding she'd hoped to create for a daughter. Of course, the two - bride and future mother-in-law - have very different ideas. The bride really doesn't want to wear a veil but knows the groom's mother will insist on some sort of head covering so she enlists the help of father's girlfriend. For said girlfriend to be able to intelligently discuss the various options appropriate, I needed a little background. So I googled images for 1920's weddings and ended up on Pinterest. And followed one thread and then another . . . . I love vintage clothing and accessories and before long I had countless tabs open and was back and forth looking at the image collections. And, no, not all were from the 1920's. Embarrassed to say how many hours of a rainy day I wasted on this. I just wanted to warn you that Pinterest can be addictive. (Sigh)