Nightdress of the Day, Hanukah night dress, 165. Buy or dye your own Sabbath or Seasonal day and night clothes
Angela Lansbury is wearing a Hanukah night dress, 165. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Colours Looking carefully at the night dress pattern, I notice that it has more than one shade of blue. The pale blue is the background, with darker blue. Other colours are red, yellow, and lavender. The Cut Hardly visible is the pocket on the left breast (on the right of the picture). The night dress is ankle length. The sleeves are short. The Pattern The first thing you notice is the hanukiah or nine branch candlestick. Eight branches for the eight days of Hanukah; the ninth candle in the middle is for lighting the others. The dreidls, or four-sided spinning tops, have four Hebrew letters. The circles, which I had not noticed until today, .are in two shades of yellow. The circles represent the Hanukah coins. Nowadays children and adults are given gold covered chocolate coins. I bought this night dress in the USA, in Rockville, Maryland, on the outskirts of W...