Blue H & M Dress, dress of the day 393

 

Angela Lansbury wearing a blue background dress from H &M.

Photo by Trevor Sharot.

The Blue H & M Dress

Blue background dress has a white pattern. Blues are hard to match. But I had a white blouse, so I wore this. On the internet and on Facebook you can see lots of videos of how to tie a scarf, but mine is simply hanging, which partly obscures the cleavage. 

Cleavage cover

I had a choice. To insert a dickey or false front, also called a removable or detachable collar. I have one or two which are plain white. 

The alternative which saves hunting for a matching dickey without distracting collar colours and embrodiery, is simply to add a fastening. I decided that a snap or press stud fastener in small size is qhich to fasten and unlikely to pull apart (as opposed to hook and eye. I like velcro but it can scratch your skin, so the press stud was the right andwer. You have to get the two sides exactly measured up from the point of the V neck otherwide you end up with a d shape hole or gap over your cleavage and a lopsided neck. This is hard if the v shape is not designed to come together neatly. It may be best to sew the snap lower, even if it shows a bit of cleavage.

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