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Blue broderie dress and blue bead buttons on a blouse, post 298

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 Angela Lansbury wearing a blue Broderie anglaise dress and a white blouse with blue buttons. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Copyright. The Blouse with Blue Buttons The buttons are interesting. Two buttons on a cuff is pretty, if the buttons are pretty, but no so unusual. Two other features are more unusual.  1  Double buttons are down the front. 2 The buttons are actually blue beads. The beads have to be small enough to fit rhoguh the button hole but large enough to hold it in place.  The blue of the buttons echoes the blue of the broderie anglaise dress.  The blouse label is Ravens. Size 36. The washing label says  65% polyester and 35% cottom.  The Blouse Style The mandarin collar is a nice touch. Different. Different from other people in the room (at least in Europe, not necessarily in Asia). To keep onlookers entertained. Different from my mother blouses, to keep the wearer entertained. It is kept fastened by an almost invisible teeny square press stud. ...