Dress Of The Day with Angela

  Angela Lansbury Five pocket tee-shirt, showing two top zipped pockets. Photo by Angela Lansbury. This is the 5 pocket tee-shirt, arrived Jan 16th 2025,  which I ordered Jan 9th when I showed in blue fromn the online ad in my blog post of that date. Size - Large I am a short person with a large bust. I ordered size large so I could wear the short-sleeved, tee-shirt over other warmer, long-sleeved, thermal vests or clothing such as a blouse, and still have the tee-shirt pockets accessible.  Maybe it looks a tad too large. A bit baggy. Fitted would have looked more elegant. My husband said, 'It's a smock.' No, it isn't. A smock has a piece across the top. What he meant was it's baggy across the bust. The Pockets The zipped pockets are accessible. Good enough. Not perfect. (Not with a hidden second pocket inside each the outer pocket in the pick-pocket proof clothing company which makes a short skirt and has inconspicous colours.) Not hidden from would-be pickpockets ...

 Abstracts and Geometry, Hearts and Stars Temu and Shein have lots of garments with sun and moon and stars, especially on night clothes. Hearts appear for Valentine's Day but are available all year if you are romantic. My latest night dress has five point stars in white outlining a heart on a red background.  Useful Website https://www.temu.com/uk/plant-print-flutter-sleeve-dress-vacation-crew-neck-ruffle-hem-loose-babydoll-dress-for-spring-summer-womens-clothing-g-

  Animals & Plants Angela Lansbury wearing a sheep pattern top. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. Animals If animals are your favourite themes, you can get lots of cute cats, darling dogs, sheepish sheep, fine or funny fish, and high horses.  Sheep Sheep are a popular theme in the UK, especially in Scotland on woollen garments. Princess Diana, as she then was, wore a jumper (Americans would say pullover) showing rows of white sheep and one black sheep. Angela in the sheep apron. Photo selfie by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. I have an apron with black faced white sheep on a red background which I wear daily. Label Ulster, Irish. Boats and Fish Sailing boats are a suitable theme for summer often with leaping fish. You could design your own repeating pattern. A whale and a sailboat. Even a cartoon of a big fish with a string of baby fish in tow, the big momma or daddy, or last tiddler looking up at the underside of a boat, thinking, or saying, the text in a bubble, what a bi...

  This time, for travelling, I have added a cyclindrical white knitted neck warmer. To look more elegant at evening dinner, you can remove the neck warmer indoors. Compare.

  Silk dress This wrap silk dress, label Coast is quick to put on when you are in a hurry. The silk dress pattern did not co-ordinate with the simple bold white top. Also I wanted a change. So I added a top to cover the top of the wrap dress, and be warmer. Striped Sleeveless Knitted Top  Wide horizontal  stripes pattern. I guessed it was synthetic. Not expensive to judge by the way the thread ends hang loose at the back.  But pleasantly dramatic with white to lighten and to brighten.  No label. Another mystery.  A knitted, light, loose top. Lacey holes in the black striped areas are noticed only close up, unless you wear a contrasting colour. I had thought that a sleeveless top was useless in winter. However, I found a good use in winter for this sleeveless style. A sleeveless top adds warmth. But no trouble getting the jacket sleeves on top of it.  White Jacket The dramatic white jacket is from a suit, label David Hayes. But the skirt of the suit is ...

 Peplum picture from Wikipedia. The word peplum comes from the Greek word for tunic. It was originally a tunic tied at the waist. In modern fashion is is a tunic which comes in at the waist, but has an attention-catching ruffle or wide frill attached to create an hour-glass effect. You could also call it an overskirt. Reasons For Peplum To create an hour glass effect. To draw attention to a small waist. To make the wearer look attractive. To make the garment look more attractive. To create a new season's look so people buy new clothes. To distinguish one designer's outfits from another's. To draw attention away from the face to the waist. It was the fashion twenty years ago. Your old vintage clothes are back in fashion. Nostalgia. You loved the look last time and here it is again. It's something you can copy to turn a boring straight tee-shirt or tunic top or tunic dress into something more interesting. Reasons Against Peplum It was the fashion twenty years ago.  It...