Black and White Anthony Sicari Outfit, Dress of the Day 260. Jacques Vert White Blouse. Sandals with Rip-tape Closure.

 

An Anthony Sicari outfit, black and white dress and jacket. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

The Dress and Jacket
Dress with pleated skirt. Size 14. 

Jacket with knitted cuffs. Swamps me now I have lost weight. 

The buttons are large white pearly discs with four holes You can undo the two buttons on the edge but the other two are sewn on. It is a pull over your head jacket because the dropped waistline knitted band has no opening. The cuffs and waistband are a little bit stretchy. What looks like a horizontally striped false front is the top half of the sleeveless underdress.

The breast pocket is yet another illusion, designed to make the item look smart. The cuff of the pocket is sewn on and the triangle of the handkerchief goes down only as far as the cuff of the non-existent pocket. Sewn in place.

If you ever have a tiny scrap of material left over and are wondering what to do with it, you can make a false pocket and a false handkerchief apparently peeping out.

A black and white outfit is easy to match up.
The sleeveless under-dress and pleats on the skirt and wide sleeves make it very comfortable and easy to wear.

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.

The Black Umbrella
The umbrella has the motto, Fashion Arena, Prague Outlet.

Shoes
The shoe brand is Gabor. Under the instep it says Gabor fashion. Size 5. Leather outer and inner with an ersatz sole stuck on underneath. They say in German, Obermaterial und Futter echt leder. Over material and foot real leather. The square buckle with rounded edges is covered with the matching black thin leather.

The Gabor website has an about page. They feature leather or part leather shoes.I cam across the latest word for Velcro (a brand name) or touch and close - one Gabor sandal had rip-tape closure.

I matched the shoes with navy Singapore airline socks. They had just changed the colour when they stopped issuing them, during Void-19.

The hat
You have seen this in many colours on my other posts.
Angela in black and white Anthony SIcari outfit, Dress of the Day 260. Photo by Trevor Sharot.


I have several more posts and photos featuring Anthony Sicari outfits. I have bought them second hand on ebay. If you are in the USA you are in luck. Postage is much lower than it would be to Singapore or the UK.

Textile closure names
hook and loop
Rip-tape
touch fasteners
Velcro


Useful Websites
Anthony Sicari Outfits

Shoes


Velcro Invention
Museum in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, where the inventor of Velcro is honoured

Umbrella

Hat
In various colours. See previous posts.

About the Author

Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places,  landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.

Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.

About the Author Angela Lansbury

The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Relations, Immediate Past President. VPPR
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK

BHA
Past meetings have included Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on 
bha.learncool.sg/meet/bha . 

Recent meetings of BHA included an educational session on using Powerpoint for posters.
Next BHA meetings, always first Wednesday evening, 7 pm Singapore time. Next meeting is  the third Saturday afternoon, June 19th 2pm Singapore time.  Inauguration of the new committee was by the incoming Director of S, plus a lively speech on teamwork.

Next meetings will be on these dates (unless a national holiday in Singapore or worldwide)
Themes and word of the day are tentative

2021
JULY - JUBILANT JULY
Theme/WOD Jubilant
WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS (based on level one of Pathways)
1 Your first speech or role EASY ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Articles A and The, Plurals, Tenses, Pronunciation, Singlish)
2 CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Wed July 7th 
Saturday 17th
July 4rh American Independence Day.

2021 AUGUST - AWESOME AUGUST
1 Pathway Level 1 Introductory Speeches
2 Evaluations
Wed 4th
Sat 21

2021 SEPT - SUPER SEPTEMBER
Wed 1st
Sat 18th SPEECH CONTESTS
Humorous Speech Contest
Table Topics Contest

2021 OCT - ODD OCTOBER
Wed 6th
Sat 16th

2021 NOV - NOVELTY NOVEMBER
Wed 3rd
Sat 20th Wed
Diwali Hindu Festival of lights Nov 4th.
Nov 25th American Thanksgiving.
Hanukah starts 28 Dec 8 days until Dec 6. Jewish Festival of lights, celebrated by Jesus.

2021 DEC - DARLING DECEMBER
Wed  1st (Hanukah if not previous month. Festival foods.)
Sat 18th
Speech on 

JAN 2022 - JOYFUL JANUARY
Wed Jan 5th New beginning - forget the past
Sat 15 Long-term plans = for the future/Chinese New Year (CNY for short)

2022 FEB FUN FEBRUARY
Theme Love and romance - Chinese New Year
Feb 1st and 2nd are holidays - do we move this Feb 2nd meeting date?)

Wed 2nd (Valentine's Day Mon Feb 14)
Sat 19th

2022 MAR - MARVELLOUS MARCH
Theme
Wed 2nd
Sat 19
March 1st is Christian Pancake day. 

2022 APR - APRIL'S AIMS
Wed 6th
Sat 16th
Muslim Ramadan 1-30 April.
Jewish Passover (Seder meal=Last supper) April
 16

2022 MAY - MODERNISING MAY
Wed 4th
Sat 21

2022 JUN - JUBILANT JUNE
Wed 1st
Sat 18th

Jul 6, Jul 16, Aug 3, Aug 20, Sept 7, Sept 17, Oct 5, Oct 15, Nov 2, Nov 19, Dec 7, Dec 17.
Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:

See many varied posts such as the post on sculptor Tom Harvey.

Please share links to your favourite posts. 


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