Nightdress of the Day, Hanukah night dress, 165. Buy or dye your own Sabbath or Seasonal day and night clothes

 

Angela Lansbury is wearing a Hanukah night dress, 165. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

Colours

 

Looking carefully at the night dress pattern, I notice that it has more than one shade of blue. The  pale blue is the background, with darker blue. Other colours are red, yellow, and lavender. 

The Cut
Hardly visible is the pocket on the  left breast (on the right of the picture). The night dress is ankle length. The sleeves are short. 

The Pattern

The first thing you notice is the hanukiah or nine branch candlestick. Eight branches for the eight days of Hanukah; the ninth candle in the middle is for lighting the others.  

The dreidls, or four-sided spinning tops, have four Hebrew letters.

The circles, which I had not noticed until today, .are in two shades of yellow. The circles represent the Hanukah coins. Nowadays children and adults are given gold covered chocolate coins.

I bought this night dress in the USA, in Rockville, Maryland, on the outskirts of Washington DC, when we were living there. The night dress was a bargain reduced price in around December 1986 in the post hanukah sale in the local clothes shop which had sales all season. One sale ended and the next sale started.

I just looked up the Hanukah dates for 1986 and 1987. In 1986 the eight days of Hanukah were December 26th to January 3rd.  The following year, 1987, the dates were December 15th to December 23rd. So, some time between  December 14th and January 4th I went into a shop and found a Hanukah night dress on sale.

Many t-shirts and sweatshirts with hanukah themes are available from Amazon, also socks, santa style conical hats and t-shirts with humorous of multi-faith messages.

If you don't see what you like, you can make your own design or take a photograph and paint it or print it onto a t-shirt or cushion cover, or fabric.

Useful Websites

Dresses

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/732314686/hanukkah-dress-womens-dress-gift-dreidel?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=hanukkah+dress&ref=sr_gallery-1-2&pro=1

Themed fabric


Etsy has suppliers selling baby clothes, socks, leggings and tunics or long tops to co-ordinate in dreidl

 and other themes. 

DIY Fabrics and Clothes with Themes

The ultimate DIY activity would be to print a photo of a menorah or hanukiah onto a cushion or t-shirt or fabric. Or paint onto a kit for painting t-shirt or scarves. 

Matching Sets

But first, maybe buy some ready-make items, since so many are available.

You can buy tie dye t-shirts in blue with matching masks.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/851133661/t-shirt-and-free-face-mask?/


triangular hanukah hat

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ZVEZVI-Hanukkah-Seamless-Pattern-Christmas/

Hanukah cards

https://www.zazzle.co.uk/c/hanukkah+cards

https://www.vistaprint.sg/holiday/christmas-cards/templates/more-occasions/hanukkah

About the Author

Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, fashionista. Please share links to your favourite posts or one or more of the blogs

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