Dress Of The Day with Angela

Angela Lansbury wearing a pink, straw, fraying, beachcomber hat. Photo selfie by Angela Lansbury.    I thought I wasn't wearing my glasses. My hat straw got in the way.  The straw was over my eyes and so my glasses focussed on the straw. I had to tilt my head to see under the straw. I thought I wasn't wearing glasses. Those annoying straws interfered with my vision. I didn't like those prickly spokey, spikey straws on my face, near my mouth and nose and eyes. And on my shoulders.  I took off the hat. I looked it up online. It was a style called Beachcomber. Plenty like it.  I hunted for fixing it. You can make them waterproof with a spray of Shellac. But nowhere were instructions for plaiting up the edges and sealing them down. It would take hours. Then clear nail varnish? Or sew in a circle? Then cut back the protruding spikes? I tried it on the other way round. Ah! The hat was not stupid. I was stupid. The hat bent upwards over the forehead and hung down at th...