Dress of the Day - Anthony Sicari in black, fuchsia and green 275


Angela is wearing an Anthony Sicari two piece skirt suit in black, fuchsia and green. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

Anthony Sicari Suit Design

Black knitted fabric with contrasting shiny satin-like panels on the cut of one sleeve and shoulder of the other. The contrast fabric is on the lower arm on one side, but attached to a black knitted cuff on the other side. The lower part of the sleeve attaches to the upper part diagonally on both arms. Distracts attention from the shape and large size of the wearer.

The skirt has scalloped overlapping frills of the patterned fabric. The skirt is attached to a sleeveless tunic top, under the thicker knitted sleeved top.

Cravat?

I find that the white thermal vest distracts and is the wrong fabric, pattern and colour and looks like underwear which should be hidden. The solution is to cover it with a cravat or scarf. Usually Anthony Sicari outfits come with a matching scarf. Sometimes if you have a long skirt, a long hem, or a skirt which is so long that you trip over it. You have enough skirt fabric to cut off a piece to make a matching scarf. This involves sewing up the skirt and the scarf length. An easy over stitch or running stitch. 

Underwear

 White Viloft vest. 

Black Marks & Spencer full length slip with black lace godet.

DIY Neck Filler

I found a neck filler I had bought. They came in a set of three. Nasty cheap fabric. But handy to have. A useful idea and design to copy. It consists of a v-shape hemmed fabric. At least two buttons at the short top of the long, thin triangle which makes a straight line across the top. With three colours in the set you could match several basic garments, black, white and 'nude' (ie beige). White might fill in a white blouse for the office. Black would fill in a black evening top when travelling. Nude might be inconspicuous. The fabrics were nasty cheap polyester lace. You needed the triangle to be large enough to stay in place, not slip and leave a gap. Otherwise, you needed a second set of tiny buttons. 

What about the buttonholes? If the triangle came with buttonholes you could sew small buttons on the garment. But every garment needed buttons. If you had just one blouse needed a fill-in, or employed a seamstress, easy. Otherwise a lot of sewing. Mind you, buttons don't take long. A morning or evening, an hour or two would be enough time to add buttons to several outfits.


DIY neck fill

In this case the underwear had provided the infill. What I needed was to cover the vest. I had a frayed square of elegant white silk. No idea what it came from. I had been saving it and for days had looked at it and thought, I need to seam the edges. Then what? Now I had a use  for it. I bent it over the vest centre, then the frayed edges were hidden. I could fasten it quickly inside with a safety pin, and adjust it by seaming it and adding buttons later. I was enormously pleased, delighted with the discovery. 

A Godet

A godet is a triangular piece added to the skirt to expand a pencil skirt. The added shape provides some swirl and enables easy walking from the knee downwards. The triangular shape, fabric and colour and to provide interest to the eye such as a varied material, eg lace. The new fabric might show a pattern against a plain background, a harmonious and subtle blended colour such as light against dark or dark against light, or for drama and attention a vivid completely contrasting colour. You can also use smaller shapes of a more expensive fabric than if the entire skirt was made of that.)

Running Stitch

A running stitch. Making a line parallel to the fabric edge, like the line on the edge of a road.

Anthony Sicari outfits are available on Ebay. If you are in the USA you are in luck. Often the outfits are in the USA and the postage to the UK or Singapore is as much as the cost of the garment or more.

The oddity of the pattern was revealed to me when I looked closely at the colours to describe them to you. The flowers are green and the petals are fuchsia.

Fuchsia

I checked on the spelling of fuchsia. Think Fuchsia.From the German surname, Fuchs.

Wiki explains:

Fuchsia (/ˈfjuːʃə/, FEW-shə) is a vivid purplish red color,[1] named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.

The color fuchsia was first introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called fuchsine, patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin. The dye was renamed magenta later in the same year, to celebrate a victory of the French army at the Battle of Magenta on June 4, 1859, near the Italian city of that name.[2]

The first recorded use of fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1892.[3]


Accessory

Elephant toy from Keel toys, bought some time ago, probably from a motorway shop. I can't see anything like it on their website now in 2021.


Useful Websites

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-ANTHONY-SICARI-Midi-Dress-80s-Pastel-Cours-Print-10-12-Frill-

Keel Toys Long-Armed Monkey

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keel-Hanging-Assorted-SUPPLIED-SPECIFIED

Pull through arms elephant, second hand, FAO from USA

https://www.ebay.com/itm/303918208551?_trkparms


Full slip in black

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marlon-Womens-Freya-Full-Black/dp

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