0range outfit. Dress of the Day 262. White Jacques Vert Blouse. Orange Josef Seibel sandals. Cat and mouse painting.

 

Angela with orange silk skirt, white silk blouse. Photo by Trevor Sharot. 

The Orange Skirt
The linchpin of this outfit is the orange skirt. It looks like Thai silk. It is iridescent. Shiny. Luxurious looking. No label. The lining adds body.

The Blouse

The white blouse
The blouse is by Jacques Vert. Size 12.  But where the sleeves fit into the shoulders they are wide. 

The fabric is 100% polyester. The fabric is finely woven and soft as silk.

Made in Hong Kong. Hand wash at 30 degrees c. 

Blouse Buttons
The single button on each cuff has a buttonhole. The neck is fastened by two buttons, closely one above the other.  That keeps the neckline neat.

All the buttons, eleven of them, are covered with the fabric. You can buy larger buttons online which have a metal push in top and are designed for you to cover the top with fabric and push it in. The front buttons are fastened with small semi-circular ribbon loops.

The design is a V-shape pleating from the shoulders to half way down the join, just below the bust.

Footwear

Platform backless, orange Velcro sandals with two straps. By Josef Seibel.

The Painting
The painting is not by me but advertises my name. I went to an art show by a girl who was a friend of my son. She was showing paintings with a friend. The friend had the cat and mouse painting with her own first name in the corner. 

I asked if she could repaint it with my name. But my name larger. 

How large? 
Twice as large. 
Half way might be better. 
That might look odd. Three quarters of the way across. Or centred? 
Why not all the way across? 
Yes.

 But it would not look right, unless it were painted curved. 
Yes. That would be great. 

The more I look at it, the more I like it. I love the way the tails of the cat and the mouse curve.


Accessories

Orange Chinese coffee cup with gold rim. 

Orange and black painting showing cat on branch surveying mouse below. Name of Angela, who commissioned the painting at an art show.

The Carpet

Chinese carpet in one of the four classic designs. These are

1 Rose/Flower 

- the most popular and widely available

2 Dragon

3 Geometric

4 Pictorial. 

Hard to find. Expensive. The pattern only goes one way. You cannot cover it with a table or chair or you ruin the effect. If you set it so that you see it when you walk in the door, with the people, and hills, and boats, and birds facing away from you. Then when you sit on a sofa facing the door, the everything is upside down. People are upside down. Four legged animals upside down. Pagodas upside down. People catching fish upside down. Flowers growing upside down.

 Carpet Cleaning

Carpets are a worry - you have to keep vacuuming or the carpet beetles or moths eat the edges and large patches. I am the only one who vacuums in my family.

If you want to be sure of the length of the pile, the softness of the finish, the brightness of the colour, you should go to see what you are buying. Discuss the price and quality with the seller. Ask why the dearest item is dearer. He will tell you everything which is wrong with the cheaper item. The cheaper item which he sells. And of course, the cheaper items sold by other companies.

Useful Websites

https://www.walkingonacloud.ca/blog/the-story-behind-josef-seibel-shoes/

Josef Seibel shoes with leather upper, lining and footbed. Red toe less Velcro. See pictures in my Pinterest. About  seventy pounds sterling.

https://www.thebootcompany.com/products/debra-19-red

https://www.charlesclinkard.co.uk/women-c1/sandals-c4/catalonia-32-womens-rip-tape-fastening-sandals-p21096/s390802?cid=GBP&utm_source=VisualsoftAffiliates&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=laurenlyst

The affiliate program is not mine but theirs, unfortunately.

Red J S clogs in the sale reduced to about 41 pounds on Amazon.

they started in 1886, according to:

https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/josef-seibel

Carpets

Wine colour carved carpet from catalogue company. Wool carpet,

https://www.jdwilliams.co.uk/shop/dynasty-wool-rug/yt437/product/details/show.action?pdBoUid=5010&optionColour=Wine&pdpClick=true&optionSize=75X150

https://www.therugswarehouse.co.uk/chinese-rugs/royal-red-rug.html

Cat and mouse playing chess sticker for car. Six pounds

https://www.joom.com/en/products/5dd11ad836b54d0101338a8f

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