How to be a white or Red Sensation in Sensations. Dress of the Day 169. Red Sensations.



The Background

Dress of the day 169. Smile with Angela. A selfie. I was looking for a blank wall, no distracting windows, pictures, light switches. The only clear wall was in the shower. So that is where I stood.

The Clothes

Red silk, Sensations brand, top. Note the name is plural.

Size 10. Small. How do you get into it? The Sensations blouse opens with buttons on the shoulder. Three small, flat, pearl-red buttons with four holes.

The front has a round neck a pleat sewn down the center. Tiny slit at the bottom of both side seams. No cuffs. Very plain but all the better for it because it goes with everything, every jacket.


I have many white blouses with fancy collars, fancy cuffs, fancy fronts, fancy fabrics, and you have to wear them alone or with a plain black skirt, but the skirt has to be the same weight of fabric and the jackets always look wrong.

Red Platinum skirt, polyester. Lined. Looks like satin. Shiny.

White dickey with embroidered red collar from China on Ebay.

White cape blazer label White bird. Too small, but would be good if I added a white ribbon to hold it together with a bow.

Lipstick should be red to match the colour them. Rouge can be the lipstick spread on your cheeks. I make sure to wipe it all off at night to protect my skin as well as the pillowcase.

Hair Slides

Two small slides with fabric bows. Diffferent colours. I think I bought them as a pair from a supermarket in England such as Sainsbury's. I should have bought two sets, then I would have had two matching pairs in different colours. I wear two to tie my hair back.

Tampines Changkat Advanced Toastmasters Club asked us to wear white for their last online meeting.

Comments and captions please. White out?


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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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