I'm going to the ball at Versailles (and you can too!)
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I'm going to Fetes Galantes, the ball at Versailles, just outside Paris, France this May! In this vidoe, I'll discuss the ball itself - including what it is, where it is. I'll also discuss what costumes are worn there, and what eras are appropriate, along with a tiny bit of history of Versailles.
Then I'll get to how to get tickets - how to choose the tickets and activities, and tips for going.
Finally, I'll show off what I'm working on for this year's ball!
Table of contents for those who like to skip around:
Intro: 0:00
What is the ball?: 0:40
How to get tickets: 9:23
Tips: 12:34
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Hey, so have you ever seen a rococo portrait painted by Alexander Roslin of a noblewoman, Baroness De Neuborg Cromiere ? If you havent, look it up. I think youd like it. And the dress!
fun fact: even though versailles is technically built in a swamp, they had a really big problem to supply enough water to all the fountains in the parc. that meant they were only turned on when the king walked past them. servants were on the lookout where he would wander next and turn them on and off accordingly.
That is true, most people do not know that.
@@Apollo_Blazesauf les français....
Hello, I am French and live in Paris.
I love your videos and am a subscriber.
What a pleasure to listen to you talking about Versailles, the history of the castle with so much accuracy.
You and your husband are a lovely couple and are going to look stunning in the costumes you create with so much skill.
Thank you for loving Versailles and France.
It is an honor to have you as visitors.
I can't wait to see your photos and videos.
Affection and consideration.
Pierre
❤❤❤
Please make a video about the practicallities. How do you pack a baroc dress? What are the contingency in case the luggage is lost? How do you get into/out of a cab in full splendor? Are the bathrooms big enough to use in a very wide dress?
I was wondering about those things, too! :)
I would also like to know this lol
Most people stay to hotels. Ibis and Hotel Louis are near the palace. We all go to the castle walking on the street. Some people come with cats and they dress on parking.
You don't dress on bathroom but on the room. The ibis have small rooms but big dress can be there but you cannot take the elevator, just the stairs.
@@ViveLeRoi1975 Thank you for the info! It's super helpful! Do you know how people rent dresses though? Is it possible to book online before you go from one of those places on official website? Also how do people do their hair? Those hair seems daunting and I don't think I can create them with my non existing hair skill
@@ViveLeRoi1975 but how do you go potty?
For other costuming events :
•There will be reenactments of Louis the 15th's visit in the gardens of the the château de Dampierre (12 miles from Versailles) the 8th and 9th of July, so the organisers are releasing tutorials on making 18th century dress (the chemise is up and 2 out of 4 on stays: the anatomy and vocabulary, and the evolution of their shape from 1660 to 1782).
•There's another 18th century event at the château de Médavy in September but no details have yet transpired.
How does one find these please
@@annedavis3340 do you mean the videos? They are on the "Temps d'élégance" TH-cam channel, but I don't know if the english subtitles are up yet.
@@NouriaDiallo in my case that's fine. Yes, thanks so very much 😊
I'm still traumatized from arriving to the Versailles garden gates in bit fancier dress (nothing opulent like a ball gown) and they nearly forbid me from entering. Made me wear a coat over my dress the whole time and not take pictures... They probably would've fully turned me away at the gate but we had already bought day tickets. I had researched beforehand and nowhere was mentioning any dress code, and it really soured my whole experience 😢
Do you mean a opulent dress Marie Antoniette would wear or a modern dress?
What a mess.
Wait was this at the ball or normal.
@@Candiecane908 I think Sewstine said you can't dress up when visiting on a normal day, so my guess is it was a regular visit. It sounds like the opposite is true for this event - you have to dress up to be admitted.
Holy shit! Why are they doing that? How can they forbid people to wear nice clothes to go there?
The first time I visited Versailles was in the 80's and I was fortunate enough to ride in a horse drawn carriage in the gardens, absolutely a memorable experience. I am so happy for you, and very excited you get to go to this ball!!
Pockets and hydration: good advice for any event!
The embroidery design for your husband’s coat is absolutely amazing. The fabric and thread colors are gorgeous! 💕
If you don't Know the Chateau de Vaux le Vicomte, they have events too. the Journée Grand Siècle is quite nice, you can have a picnic in the gardens, all in costume. I think they also have balls. I personally prefer it to Versailles.
Totally out of my budget, but love to see it nonetheless! Isn't there a similar event in Venice? If so, I would love to see a video on that :)
Ah, Venice ! I second that !
I’ve seen historical costumers dress up for Carnevale in February, you might look into that. I’m sure it’s very busy though
Wow, I had no idea this was a thing, but now it’s on my dream to-do list!! So excited to see your visit!
I'm listening to your opening lines. It builds excitement in me too. Your dog is napping. Not excited. Love the scene.
Have a wonderful time! I had doge tickets & grand plans for 2020 but obviously that didn't work out, and now I'm unsure when I'll be able to fit in into my schedule again. Looking forward to seeing your creations!
Thanks for this! I have heard of this ball and seen other TH-camrs attend, but didn't know how exactly that worked. While I will probably never attend myself, I'm happy to learn that I could do so. Have an awesome time at this year's ball! I hope it is the best one yet.
don't forget to visit the Trianon domain.
The petit trianon and the hameau de la reine are delightful.
Much better than the main castle IMO.
I made a huge effort to go see those and they are a sweet retreat from the busyness of the main palace.
Love your channel …I won’t be going this year but I made a more subdued court suit and will go next year as an American Ambassador to the French Crown. I found a fabulous beehive patterned brown silk and linen fabric. I’m also a wedding officiant and I do weddings in costume for period events.. ( Renaissance, 17-18 Century) I’m now working on a black frock coat in a rose jacquard pattern with matching breeches and a black skull cap. Also have a parsons round black hat plus a starched linen priest bib like those of the 18 Century. I’m modeling my costume after Chenilles et Papillons Hiver category. I used to go every year to Carnevale di Venezia for Mardis Gras week and that’s always a great event to attend in costume although sometimes it can get rather cold so you need to create outerwear. Do you recommend any reasonably priced embroidery machine that out there? I don’t think I could afford the kind you have and hand embroidery is a pain.
How exciting for you!!! I loved visiting Versailles in 2016, especially seeing the fountains on the grounds. Sadly, the Queen's quarters were closed due to renovations at the time. I also loved seeing Marie Antoinette's little private village. I have a vinyl adhesive cover on my bedroom door of the Hall of Versailles. I hope you have a wonderful trip!! ❤
The heat and limited seating sounds like spoonie hell for me. I will admire this ball from other people's photographs.
The Fêtes Galantes are definitely on my to-do list, I have american friends who would like to attend someday so I'll probably go with them :)
I live 20 minutes away from Versailles and i am an embassador for a project there, tell me why i never knew those appened 😢😅😮
Because the French value "exclusivity" 🤢
That reddish orange suit is going uk be just as beautiful as the blue one. I’m jelly!
Omg this is quite the development! I bet it was so much fun! C’était magnifique!
If you enjoy Versailles. You would also love Vaux le Vicomte, its a whole weekend event, so you will need day dresses as well as ball gowns. One can never have too many my dear.
Would you mind sharing more? I tried to Google it but I only found The Grana Costume Day which seems to be a day event only… Do you have a link perhaps? Thank you ❤
I visited Versailles before I started sewing and now that I have some clothes I'd like to go again
what a great way for the Palace to enjoy a night of glamour and history,
I was also there in 2017, stayed in Versailles and the ball did actually start late because of Putin I remember. It was a surreal experience. It was lovely to see you and your work in passing too. I'm excited for the chance to go back hopefully soon!
I'm going to the ball in 2024 ...excited .... I went to versailles for my birthday Oct 2023 and planned to wear a gown. Thank goodness the lady that was supposed to make it flaked out ( got my money back ) Otherwise I would have been turned away . Found out about the ball this year and I'm excited... Glad I found your video to have a fan and POCKETS... Not sure if you are going this year but if you are would love to meet you!!!
I love knowing people from two completely different places who are going. Please keep an eye out for Kitty Krell, an amazing costumer who specializes in corsets. If you're not already friends, you should be!
I hope you have a wonderful time. What a perfect way to show off and enjoy the beautiful dresses and suits you make for yourself and your husband!
The fact that I live 15mins from the castle and had no idea about this 😅
Noo, not the pirate bed! But he has a racecar bed now so thank goodness 😂 I’m so hype for fetes galantes!!
I really want to attend one of these events but I have 2 main reason why I currently can't:
1) None of my friends would want to go and I'm a wuss and don't want to go alone.
2) I don't have the money/transpiration to go these types of events.
I enjoy living my wannabe LARP(er) and wannabe ball goer through TH-cam. It was very pretty btw, I love your videos!!
I want to go to there! That is the epitome of my costuming dreams. Will start saving now…I would totally wear a robe à la française. Why not? This is so, so cool. Have so much fun!
Thank you for the informative video, with so much useful advice and so many pretty pictures!
I'm so glad you got to go to the ball! I hope you have a wonderful time this year! I hope next time that you get the top tier tickets you want!
How very exciting. Looking forward to the Ball video.
Have always wanted to go ever since I saw Virtuous Courtesan go and saw her honeycomb dress. Love you so much for telling us all about how it works!
omg you're so pretty , I love watching your beautiful dresses getting sewn
I’m so excited for you! Have the best time!
i love this video concept and WILL be using it to plan my own fete galantes trip :)))
This video was amazing! I had no idea about this event but would love to go in the future❤💕
Great video! I'm excited to be returning to Fetes Galantes as well. Hope to see you there!
I was going to go, but this year is not the right one. So next year is my aim. I cannot wait to see what you both look like this year!
Will living vicariously through your videos and the videos of others.
That is so cool, I never knew this was a thing! I hope you have an amazing time!!
I would love to get dressed and go!!! Hope you have an amazing time and thanks for sharing your experience, you're fascinating to watch and I've shared your work with my mom, and we're both in awe of your embroidery skills! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Wow how fun. I may think about this for 2024! Anyway, looking forward to seeing you and your husband at the ball in your Versailles video in June!😍
I can't wait to go to this ball. Not going this year sadly, still putting the money aside since traveling there is rather pricey from the u.s! Already have my gown though. Hope you have lots of fun!❤❤❤
This would have been the ultimate birthday present to myself had I known about this and had the money to go! Talk about a Happy Birthday to me!! 🎉 Hope your having the ultimate good time!
Big and maybe a silly question: can people go alone, or a pair is a must?
You can go solo if you would like!
Fantastic. What a wonderful adventure and thrilling experience. Wow! Looking forward to seeing the video from your adventures. Your work is beautiful and inspiring. Thanks for a great channel, joyful and inspiring.
Looking forward to seeing you there! I just need to sew every minute between now and then, haha. ❤❤❤
Love the video
this just sounds fantastic! I'm in Australia, but am going to put this event on my bucket list!
Thank-you for showing how to get the tickets! I only heard of it just today in your video, but it feels like I've always wanted to go. I visited a couple of times as a jaded teen when I lived there in the 80s - didn't pay much attention, and didn't smile in the pictures. If my mom had dragged us to a costume ball, I think I could've mustered a smirk...
This sounds like such a good time and I'm so happy to see you get a chance to celebrate all the hard work you've done with like-minded people! But how predictably ironic that an event at Versailles is this inaccessible even after the palace allegedly passed back into the ownership of the public who suffered to maintain it. As a disabled person I'm particularly horrified by the "pay for access to water and seating at this sweltering period ball" prospect. I would like to see a world with such an abundance of decadent public events that no one need struggle, save, or miss out.
I sincerely hope you have an excellent time though! And thanks for sharing your wisdom!
I share the sentiment, but I also consider that between the catering, the musicians (multiple concerts plus the ball), the dance teachers, the visit guides and the fireworks, they have to pay several companies, not to mention extra work hours for their employees...
I could never afford something like this, so I am really looking forward to seeing your video! I am sure it will be wonderful!
Such a helpful video, thank you.
I love the health advice 😂❤ So appropriate.
I'm so glad that it appears to be photography friendly.
Ugh!!!! Your hubby’s suit is SOOOOO beautiful. I’d kill to have one very similar. The colors of the embroidery is just so amazing. One day I’ll have one. I’d love to learn to see to make one, but idk if I could. I might buy one, but it’d be so nice to make it.
Hope you finish the court suit. Have fun at Versailles
I'm also going to the ball at Versailles this year with some dear friends. Make me feel really lucky
My first and last time (so far) that I visited Versailles was a month ago and we were evacuated so this is a great change of scenery
Looking wonderful Dear!
I really really really want to go to the Grand Masked Ball!!!
Splendide! Quel talent
Hello! Thank you for this video! I was wondering if you’re coming this year ❤
I'll be there ! 😊
On my list to go some time but being a perfectionist, it will probably be years before I'm satisfied with my skills enough to make a properly fabulous gown. I'll start small by going to the fetes in st Louis this year 😅
Looks incredible!
a new meaning to the meme "Ball is life"
Your videos are always interesting.
My mom and I are going, and bringing a friend! We hand-sewed our robes à la française which was maybe a bit extra.
You can recognize me there by the small silk raspberry bush I'll have on my head à la 1770s poufs 😅
oh wow, it looks magical! I wish I had the money to go!
I will be there!! I really hope I see you!! That embroidery on Matt's court suit!!! UNREAL!!! I love your dress!!! Mine is also Gold!! Thank you for giving us some tips. I bought the lowest level tickets because I had no idea. I guess I'll be standing in line for water and champagne. 👎 LOL
Oooooo want many videos and pictures. I've always wanted to go.
I'll be in Europe studying in the next few years, hopefully I can give the time and the funds to try and go at least once!
I love your videos! ❤
It looks as though you had a lot of fun 😄 It would be too overwhelming for me (as a high-functioning autistic I find even quiet parties too much!) but I can imagine it must be quite spectacular.
Sounds like a dream, honestly, although the prices are very high. I think I'll stick to the much cheaper historical ball that's in my country instead, although it would be great to go to Versailles at least once.
The style of dress I would want to do is 40's pinup look
Fabulous!
I've read and studied the location/construction of the Palace of Versailles extensively and knowing that it was built on a swamp would have told you that it is going to be warm/hot and humid. :)
This is one of my dream to go there, but right know I'm actually working in versaille, in the theater of the palace to be more precise. This such a nice feeling to walk on the stage when it's empty. I can't imagine what it's like to go there in full gown. Maybe in the future!
I am beyond envious of you working there. ! I have been many times but I know you have access to things that people like me do not get to see. I did do the private apartments of Antoinette. It was in French but I tried.
You work in such a historical place! Maybe it’s just me. 🤷🏻♀️.
a cool fact is that we use the old kitchen of the king as a place to keep equipement, because its a huge room. (without any decoration on the wall, so it doesnt need to be heavily protected). Here there is the biggest fire place i have ever see. maybe 4 or 5 meters tall. I like to go there because unless you work there, you will never see it.@@TheJandufandu
Any chance of a video or some photos? You are working in the big theatre connecting to the main chateau? Not Marie Antoinette’s one then. 😊. Sigh. I would live in the town if I could. May I ask what you are doing there in the theater? 😊
I would love to go one day. That would be so awesome. I don't need a time machine.
One word! 🤩 WOW!
hope you have a ball there in may! (hehe)
hi christine, I love your videos!!! could you please tell me where you got your headborad? it's beautiful!!!!!
I think it's an original art deco one she came across. What an amazing find right? I remember her mentioning it in a video forever ago.
I think that by quality they mean that you at least look like you tried. 😂 I suppose that as long as you don’t show up looking like someone who just put on modern clothes that ruin the atmosphere, its fine
Ha! Like, please don’t show up in a robe à la française from Wish.
You have me inspired! Hopefully you see me next year lol
I would wear a mantua. They look comfy. Got to be comfy in 90+ heat.
How is this the first time I’ve heard of this!?!
Maybe I can work on that kind of project and then whichever year I'm done, I'll buy myself this trip.
I love the dress you are wearing! Is it one you made and is there a video of its creation?
I asked that question to soon!🙃
i would love to go to one of those balls !! i'm gonna be in paris this may, but i can't attend cause i'll be working
There may still be 1800s + 1900s balls that may be easier to attend.
Thank you for a look into this magical event! I couldn't attend- I am severely heat intolerant and use a wheelchair so un-aired old buildings with towering marble stairs are a no-go for me, though I have to say someday I'd love to redesign a robe a la francais for someone who is going to be sitting the whole time, and rework the architecture. It's delightful to have you share this view into that palace. I shall carry in on my 12th century bliauts and my rolling throne.
Is there anything like this for those of us that can't afford to make trips to Europe?
Could you explain what you do to the gown once you arrive at your hotel to get it into a wearable state once it is out of your luggage👗Xx. 1320 on 1st May
the fact that i will be in france next year vs tickets + travel + renting a robe a la francaise.... oh decisions decisions