Dress Of The Day with Angela

Angela wearing a black dress with white polka-dots from label Yours. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Yours is a company which supplies plus size clothes for men and women. Their label has a red heart in front of the name, as does the website banner. Their strapline is Queen of Curves.   Buyers & Sellers Of Large Size Clothes Isn't everybody dieting? Yes, but British people, and Americans, are notoriously putting on weight. The Dutch and Scandinavians have grown taller with better nutrition since WW2. People are living longer so more reach the age of Middle Age Spread. Immigration adds to the mix. An influx into the UK, especially London around Heathrow, of red hot mamas with large families from India and the Caribbean and other countries, as a result there is a market for large clothes.  (In Singapore I had trouble finding average size clothes. There the Chinese have small frames. The average age when I arrived was under 30. So I had to go to Mustafa's department store in Lit...

You might have seen this green, sleeveless dress previously under the blue blouse, acting like a skirt.  The dress is under a blue jacket in post 478. The green dress is in post 480, about the silver necklace. Today I am wearing the dress over the blue blouse. My dress is so handy, goes with lots of blues. Does not crease. Good length. Slightly shaped, not baggy but loose enough to be comfortable. I wondered of Karen Millen was a made up or changed name. At first I kept typing Miller. Then I got to know the name. Karen Millen is a real person. Wiki told me the whole story. I shall condense it here: Karen Millen studied fashion at the Medway College of Design which is now known as  University for the Creative Arts . [3] The company was founded in 1981 when Millen partnered with Kevin Stanford.  Karen Millen acquired the assets of its sister company, Coast, out of administration in October 2018. [9]  In August 2019, the two companies' online businesses were bought out ...

  It is easier to remove or hide on black than on white. I shall cover concealing holes and stains on a black skirt, on a white blouse, a white night dress. A Black Skirt Had A Hole Never mind the song about a hole in my bucket, dear Liza. I had a hole in the knee of my skirt. Under a desk it would not matter. But sitting on chairs with the family, somebody noticed. Ribbon My first thought was to use ribbon. I have bought rolls of ribbon from Spotlight in Singapore and from Daiso. Daiso is the cheap everything 2 dollars store from Japan and big all over Asia and worldwide. I also have stretchy ribbons, strings of sequins. The sequins are purple, and another silver. I could use a string of sequins. Or make a loop. If the stain is in the middle of the loop, the contrast colour in the centre looks deliberate, like a flower. Or I could spiral the sequins. Perhaps before sewing it down, thus securing the sequins on both ends of  Where Do I Find A Patch? If you have a large and mis-...