Ladies Victorian Flirting Fans...
Harken back to the era of Queen Victoria, with all its propriety and formality.
Victorian fans work very well for a wedding, afternoon tea, or costume ball for
guests who love to dress up and drift back in time. If at all possible, hold your
event in a mansion or a Victorian home. Lately, a lot of people are using the
Carrick House in Lexington.
Courtship was once an orchestrated affair: Young women never failed to keep
their fans in hand, the perfect ball gown accessory in the mid- nineteenth century.
Flirtations accoutrements like an oval brass-mounted mirror set in the guard of
the early nineteenth-century bone fan---were used by discreet ladies to chance a
peek at beaux standing behind them at the ball.
Fan Flirting: As a party activity you can teach your guests one of the primary
methods of romantic communication in the Victorian Era, taken from the Young
Ladies' Journal, 1872.
The code is as follows:
Fan fast--I am independent
Fan slow--I am engaged
Fan with right hand in front of face--Come on
Fan with left hand in front of face--Leave me
Fan open and shut--Kiss me
Fan open wide--Love
Fan half open--Friendship
Fan shut--Hate
Fan swinging--Can I see you home?
Your guests will have a ball with this flirting technique!
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