Peachy orange outfit dress of the day 420, broderie anglaise, from St Luke's

Angela Lansbury wearing an orange dress. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

I bought this orange summer dress in winter in the one pound box of unsold items in St Luke's. Firstly it was in my latest favourite colour, orange. The orange colour, with pink, has taken over from red as my favourite colour. A second attraction was that the dress had my favourite broderie anglaise on the hem.

Taking photos of oneself is a useful exercise. The bad photos are as useful as the good ones. Bad photos warn you of what needs fixing. I can see from this photo that the black underslip or black leggings show through the broderie anglaise. Instead of intensifying the orange colour, the black makes it look murky, dirty, dusty. White or orange would be better.

Anyway, the dress was a success. Alongside the orange roses, still out at the end of November and the start of December In London. My husband commented on the colours, "A peachy dress, a peachy girl, a peachy wife." 

Shop Locations
St Luke's has seventeen shops. Locations include
Burnt Oak, Hatch End, Kenton, Kingsbury, North Harrow, Pinner, Harrow - St Ann's mall in Harrow, Preston Road, South Harrow, Wealdstone, Wembley, Willesden Green

St Luke's Online on Ebay
They are also on ebay, if you want to support them, but just a few clothes and shoes lots of electricals and other items at high prices, mostly ten pounds and up. The bargains are in the shops in thee rummage box, and low prices for scarves.
 
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