With her customary demure smile, Mistress Watt is escorted by young Sir Barlow Clémente. Mistress Watt is the unacknowledged but not unheralded Queen of our Revels, as hers was the idea for Polly Johnson Day, the annual celebration of which allowed the seed to germinate into the flower that is Fop Fest.

Mistress Watt is Distaff Serjeant of the King's Royal Yorker's Loyal Refugees and was justly and sinfully full of pride at the turnout of her compatriots on this festive day. Nancy had a hand at constructing and/or designing at least a portion of almost all the gowns of her ladies, but opted for her classic older gown of printed fabric trimmed with pink, wine and pearls. The ensemble had new life breathed into it with fresh hat ornamentation, a new ruched fichu, pink silk mitts and shoes which had been painstakingly repainted after originals in the Victoria and Albert Museum collection, by her brother, Drum Major Watt.

In fact, Mistress Watt created most of the other items from the high hair to the tall walking stick and, yes, sewed on every one of those seed pearls over the course of the last sixteen years. Her pink silk petticoat was quilted by her mother, Mrs. Watt.