Dress Of The Day with Angela

Angela Lansbury in green eyelet dress, by green car, with green and multi-colour umbrella. Photo by Trevor Sharot.   I bought this eyelet dress on eBay. I was looking for an eyelet dress. (Eyelet dresses used to be called broderie anglaise. Once folksy, now fashionable. In the old days only white, now also in black and all kinds of colours.) What did I want? Preferably not white, because I already have one in white and would like a change. I bid on this attractive lime green. I won the bidding at only five pounds but the postage was over three so the total was about eight pounds. Still a bargain. The dress price ticket said twenty pounds! As the old saying goes, you win some, you lose some. This is one that I won, in both senses of the word. I won the auction. I won a bargain. The Dress Brand & Label The neck label says Made in Italy. The hip length lining's inner hem has two labels. Both say the same. The wording reveals a brand name, Euro Miss UK Made in Italy.  100 % vi...

  Angela wearing white eyelet dress, and long-sleeve white eyelet blouse, with red cape blazer by BeJealous. At Raffles Holland Village, Singapore. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Red and white covered outfit 378. Red and white, blood and bandages effect. Wedding dress shops warn you against white and bright red.  Covered but cool. (Cool from eyelets.) Angela Lansbury in broderie anglaise or eyelet dress. 379 bare-shouldered dress. Outside raffles mall, Holland Village, Singapore. Photo by Trevor Sharot. On March 17th I wrote about my friend's red eyelet dress from Thailand, which I admired. A week or two we met again and she was wearing a white eyelet dress. This time she said she had bought it in Singapore and it was a Singapore brand and she would take me to the shop which sold it, The Stage Walk in Junction 8 at Bishan.  Selfie photo by Angela Lansbury. Yenny, President of Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters' International speakers' training club, is wearing a white eyelet...