Caftan In White and Pink For Speech Contest Dress dress of the evening 504

 

Angela Lansbury wearing caftan at speech contest.

Colourful Caftan

The colours of this caftan are a white background with pale pink vertical edging, and curved darker pink, and touches of black and grey. Summery sunny white and warm pink. The black leaves suggest flowers. 

For a speech contest I wore a colourful caftan over my warmer, winter clothes. My idea was to create a suitable costume to fit my subject which was my honeymoon in Morocco. Therefore, something summery.

The White Blouse

I actually started with a white blouse, thinking of weddings requiring all white, because my opening anecdote was about my honeymoon. 

The white blouse covers my neck and forearms. It fills in the V-neck elegantly. No gaps, bra straps, lopt-sided views of a vest. It adds elegance to the simple caftan with more shiny silky look, and the added intricacy of the pleating. The longer arm sleeves kept me warm. The cuffs covered my distracting watch strap.

The label is Alternatives. Size UK 14, US 12. GER(many) 40 FR(ance) 42. 

Hand was with care. 30 degrees centigrade. Cool iron. (In handy text, in addition to the one dot symbol.) May be dry cleaned. (Letter P inside a circle.) But a cross on a triangle, meaning do not use bleach.

It has shoulder pads.

What a gorgeous garment.

The washing instruction label says it is made in Hong Kong. 100% polyester. 

Buttons

It has 24 buttons. Sets of two horizontally all the wy down the front, plus two on each cuff.

The Under-Skirt In Red

Under the caftan I am wearing a red skirt. I added the caftan as an afterthought when I was searching for the skirt and the caftan caught my eye first. I was going to go without the red skirt until I opened my front door and the evening weather was cold so I put on the skirt. We have a saying in England, ne'er cast a clout til May be out, meaning don't take off any warm, winter clothes until the end of May.

This double decker costume was a bit bulky. I considered changing my costume on arrival, removing the skirt. But in the event, this proved too much of a palaver. Fortunately, the loose caftan hides what is underneath.

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