Dress Of The Day with Angela

  Jacket Indigo Moon. Velvet. Red. From Ebay. Size small. Made in India.Vintage. Previously in post 708 for Valentine's day, that time with a white blouse. The Red Skirt The red sequined skirt was from Peacock. Many suppliers have sequin skirts, at different lengths, colours, and prices. I saw it in the Peacock shop in Elstree in the sale and later bought it online on discount at a higher price. Knitted Top Anthony Sicari. Black with a pattern of red roses in a semi circle. Vest Green. Patra UK. Boots Badge It's my birthday. 

Today yet another item arrived in the post for me. What was it? It was small. A scarf. Low cost. I have half a dozen items in my watch lists on Ebay. Different colours, sizes, all with this month's trend, passion, serrated edges. Inexpensive vests and tops, a dress, jackets. Should I ask for one for my birthday? Let's admit it. I am addicted. To shopping. Every day I look at Ebay, pay for anything which I bid on, or made an offer on. I see in whatsapp what is about to be delivered. I am inundated by notifications.  Ebay tells me you won. Ebay tells me pay now. Ebay tells me you have paid.  PayPal tells me you have just paid. Paypal tells me my week's spending total. Royal mail tells me I have a tracking number. Royal Mail tells me the item is about to be delivered. Royal mail sends a picture of the item being delivered. Each one makes me go back on line. I can't walk past a sale sign. Or a Marks & Spencer's, or a supermarket such as Sainsbury's with sale clo...

 I have a badge from a birthday card which I save for all family birthdays. I had saved the badg from a birthday card. I bring the badge out every year.  Morrisons supermarket in London has a headband with It's's my birthday. The gold tone which I saw in Morrisons in Hatch End cost 3.50 sterling pounds. The coloured version which I saw on their online website cost slightly less, at 3 pounds.. I fancy one of each.  You can buy personalised aprons (plus engraved drinking glasses, key rings, bottle openeers and slate goods and coasters with your photo, from  All Things Personalised) Another conpaniy created flower cards, bunches of flowers in a vase with a large card as a frame. Parties. I have a happy birthday banner of trinagular lettes spelling happy birthday. look in and ask in a party shop. Ballloons with numbers, of happy birthday or happy aniversary, with or wihtout nubmers, are a traditional favourite. For parties, you can get  lifesize cardboard cutouts of...

 Photo, selfie by my friend Faith, on her birthday. The Playdress Dress White dress and shawl from Playdress. Their about page reveals 'complements the Asian body shape' and 'Asian woman fit'. Young, fun styles. Not cheap. Sales page. Their flagship store is in Plaza Singapura. Other stores are in Bugis Junction, 313 Somerset, Suntec City, Tampines 1Wisma Atria. They ship to  Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. I couldn't find the dress, but I found wonderful eyelet shorts and a top. Beyond my budget.  White Shawl With collar and buckle at the neck, from Lazada for 40 Sing dollars. The Charles & Keith Shoes White shoes from Charles & Keith. Charles and Keith Wong. The brothers started out as a shoes store in Singapore, So successful that they now sell all kinds of accessories and have many outlets. Causeway Point, Clarke Quay Central, Jewel Changi, 313 Somerset, Takashimaya, Wisma  I am not into heels or pointy toes. But I love ...

  I am wearing a white dickey (a decorative collar without any shirt, just a shirt front). The dickey has buttons which enable me to pin on the napkin to the top button. An alternative would be a brooch or pendant with a chain so you can tuck in the napkin. Whenever I dress for a dinner out, especially in summer and light evenings, I look for something light, a change from the funeral blacks of winter. But I then consider that I might stain my lovely outfit with food.  I don't want to have clothes hung up and never worn. What a waste of money - and wardrobe space. (Americans say closet.) You can buy two white dinner napkins for just under 15 collars (plus postage) from Etsy from suppliers in the USA. Others on Etsy offer sets of six at proportional prices. From EmbroiderybyLinda and DapperDiner. The napkins can be supplied in cotton or polyester.  Cotton or Polyester Cotton, for a softer feel? To match your tablecloth. To wash on high heat to get rid of stains and bacteri...

 Brides wear white. A simple colour scheme. White dress, white shoes. Co-ordinated. Colour schemes are chosen for the theme of the wedding. That gets the bride into good habits!   Uncle  Ronald. My colour blind late uncle Ronald had all his clothes sorted into sets with labels: Blue shirt goes with blue tie. White shirt goes with black tie. Since he had recently died, I was the executor of his will, this made me very sad. Now, several years on, I can turn this story around. Isn't that great? Yes! He was able to go out, perfectly co-ordinated. His life was in order. At least, his clothes were in order. The handwriting was not his, so somebody else had helped him to organize the colours.  What a useful lesson. I could do the same. You could do the same.  He had very few clothes. Less than a dozen shirts. Less than a dozen ties. In a morning, afternoon or evening, he could have listed all the colours and sorted out the scheme for the rest of his life. You and I cou...