Dress Of The Day with Angela

Angela Lansbury is wearing a red  size 8 dress, label Divided, by H &M. Selfie photo by Angela Lansbury.  I never though I would get into this dress. The label says size 8. It is weeny.  It looked short. Never mind.  The Petticoat My white Laura Ashley petticoat with the pretty lacey crochet hem covers me up nicely. The white is a contrast with the red. Critics call it the blood and bandages look. Confession time. The zip has not done up at the back. Only half way up. What can I do? I can go back to the diet.  I had considered cutting off the top half and slitting the sides to make a dickey (misleadingly also called a false front, when the front is real but the rest of the garment is missing).  I also considered reversing the dress and wearing it open, like a jacket. I could remove the zip and slit the seam below.  But the see-through effect at the neck is then low at the back. At the front the fabric sits high, which might feel tight across the lo...

I have a long black slip from Marks & Spencer. In Singapore, where the tropical heat affects you indoors and out all year, it can feel sticky. However, it goes with so many items that I wear it a lot. When I take it off, I can wash it out at night. Next morning it is dry, or dry enough. The colours won't run. I went looking for something similar in Mustafa's 24 hour department store near Little India MRT underground station in Singapore. They had cotton petticoats for wearing under sarees. Drawstring waists. That was not what I wanted. But I bought three of them.   Now I need or want a green underskirt. Plain, not patterned. I have hunted through my wardrobe. I have loads of green tops but no co-ordinating skirt. The only alternatives are white and black - or contrasting orange or red. My friend Carolyn, who is Indian, and Singaporean, tells me that you can get long petticoats to go under sarees for about 2 dollars, singapore dollars, in Little India. I must go and look. I...