Dress Of The Day with Angela

The readership of my blog varies, from zero for a post in the first five seconds after I have written it, to more than 500 by the end of the day. My travel blog got more yesterday, 8,725 in one day for a post on the Canary islands. I can click on the statistics to see which days I got more readers and for what subjects.  But my question is, who is reading my blog? It is in English, although anybody can use Google translate. But why would they?  When I first started writing, I expected to get only readers in London, England, who shopped in my local shops, and travelled to similar places. Then I found that |American readers outnumbered the British readers. I was surprised. My husband, who is a statistician, said the obvious answer was that there are more English speaking readers in the USA.  Today, in March 2026, I tried asking AI why I got more readers for my blog on clothes which mentioned clothes from Temu. My son, who works in Google analytics, SEO - search engine optim...

  Temu Ladies Clothes Sets I spent hours looking at different sets, styles, colours. For my summer holiday, holidays, this year, next year, forever. What I was originally looking for was this, a long dress with a long matching coat, to make me look co-ordinated, elegant. And taller. Jacket Length Thickness and Weight I knew from previous experience that short jackets would be matching fabric to the dress. The long jackets, however were not even as thick as duster coats, but an ultra-thin, almost see-through fabric. Never mind. The sleeves are too long. That leaves me with several options. The simplest and quickest is to turn them back into a cuff. I like the jacket left open. It shows the lively pattern of the dress. The Dress Style - Spaghetti Straps I had not wanted spaghetti straps. You need something to hold bra straps out of the way, or a co-ordinating vest. The straps slip off. You expose too much around the arm pits for elegance, showing bits of bras, or breasts. No protecti...

  From Temu.  Red and White Dress, Two Piece Set Size large. Polyester 95%. Elastane 5%. Made in China. Do not dry clean. Perfect.  Arrived fast, in time for my birthday.  Red Sandals Now I need red summer sandals to wear with it. I have some. Brand Free-step. The Red Jacket The jacket has no fastening, no buttons, what is called edge to edge. If you stand badly or have a broken collar bone or other bone, the jacket hangs lopsidedly.  I did it up at the neck. I looked for a brooch. I had second thoughts. I did not want to risk making a hole in the jacket fabric, especially in an obvious place like top centre under the neck. I saw an elastic hairband. I pulled the two top corners of the jacket through the band - not tight enough. So I  twisted the elastic band into a figure of eight, folded it into a double circle, and pulled the corners through a second time. That worked. The Full Length Sleeves The red sleeves reach my wrists. That is good. If I wanted, I ...

 I was looking for a birthday present. I had asked my son to buy me an an Indigo Moon jacket. But I really wanted a set of coat and top, a skirt suit.  When I want an outfit of three pieces, top, skirt and scarf, I look for Anthony Sicari.   Anthony Sicari outfit worn by Angela Lansbury. For a lacey for fitting but stretchy dress, I look for Ann Balon. Ann Balon is still in business. Ann Balon outfit in dark green, featuring her lacey look fabric. Worn by Angela Lansbury. Photo by Trevor Sharot.  The other two are vintage. When I did the Indigo Moon online search using several words, such as the colours red and orange, or blue and green, I got fewer results.  Website Lists of Favourite Designers The website added on the end of the page outfits in those colours, two piece skirt suits, by other manufacturers or designers with their labels. You can list on Ebay your favourite designers. But you get inundated with notifications. Lists In Notebooks Just as I had...

  Angela Lansbury wearing a blue Indigo Moon jacket. Photo by Trevor Sharot. The Jacket Infigo Moon is my current favourite label. Along with Anthony Sicari snd Ann Balon. Infigo Moon and Anthony Sicsri are both vintage. Indigo Moon advantages Strong vibrant colours. Indigo Moon disadvantages No pockets. Please follow me, bookmark, and share links with your family and friends.

I read a post on Facebook about somebody recalling as a child playing with buttons in their mother's button box. The button box was a biscuit tin, recycled. What a great idea. A large circular tin, for biscuits, or a higher one for cakes. My buttons are scattered in several boxes, not as large as a cake tin.  I have buttons in small glass recycled jam jars. That way you can see the colours. They are scattered along book shelves.  Wouldn't it be easier to have all the buttons in one large tin. My biggest tin is from a Xmas cake, a Panettone. Why keep a button box? To replace lost buttons, on shirts, coats. To replace missing buttons on items bought cheaply from charity shops. To add decoratively. To cover stains. To make button toys, like little human figures. To make eyes on puppets.  To add extra security on wrap skirts. To secure crossover wrap tops gapping, showing cleavage, threatening to pull undone. To sew behind bigger buttons to keep them secure. (On the other sid...