Women on Postcards | C Is for Carnival

The Marlborough House fancy ball, 22 July 1874
Saint James's Palace, London, UK

Sent by Laura (the UK) and Bruno (PC).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Blue Carnival

I got this postcard though the Postcrossing site last December. It was sent from Schwäbisch Gmünd, but I don't know which Carnival the picture belongs to.

Pancake Day

Pancake Day
 Shopping List: Plain
 flour, eggs, milk
and your favourite
filling
25 February 2021

Postmark from the UK received last year, few days after Pancake Day.

Carnival & New Year

Sent by Ela (Poland) through the Postcrossing site, this postcard features a poster by Ryszard Kaja, Ryszard Kaja, one of Poland's best selling and prolific contemporary poster designers.

This is what the sender wrote in the back:

“The poster presents a folk custom. During the carnival young people dress up and wander from house to house giving New Year wishes. They get various gifts for this, usually sweets or money.”

I am a bit confused abut the "New Year wishes" part.

And more New Year wishes, from Phillip (the USA):

This sending took a bit longer that usual to arrive. It was written on 18 January, postmarked on 23 January, and landed on 11 February.

Rosenmontag

74 Heumarkt / Martinsviertel
By Matthias Einhorn

This postcard was sent from Cologne by my friend Laura (Germany) the day after Rosenmontag, last year. She wrote that the ambience was a bit more chaotic than on the picture...

As read in the Wikipedia:

Rosenmontag ('Rose Monday') is the highlight of the German Carnival, and is on the Shrove Monday before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Mardi Gras though celebrated on Tuesday, is a similar event. Rosenmontag is celebrated in German-speaking countries, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium (Eupen), but most heavily in the Karnevalshochburgen ('carnival strongholds'), which include the Rhineland, especially in Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Aachen and Mainz.