Dress Of The Day with Angela

Sofia in a sarong from Indonesia. Photo by Angela Lansbury.Copyright. I was taken by this lovely lime green sarong. Lovely colour. I call this colour lime. My husband thinks that lime is a darker green, and calls this pistachio. (See later post on the butterfly symbol.) Do you like butterflies? Do you like butterflies as a pattern on fabric and paper? The butterfly has been chosen as the new symbol of Costa Rica. I checked in Wikipedia for pictures and descriptions. Would you believe there are several sub-divisions of lime.  For example, lemon-lime.  See my dress 421 alongside a Renault Clio in the old colour. They seem to have dicontinues it. Angela Lansbury In London, England, beside a lime green Renault Clio. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Useful Websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(color)

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...