Dress Of The Day with Angela

 Blue and white striped hairband, by Angela Lansbury. Selfie. How to Make a Matching Hairband I looked at my hairbands, rigid hairbands. I planned to cover one with a thin ribbon of fabric cut from my outfit. I chose the thinnest hairband which would take the least material to cover it. Seamed Armholes I had rescued the strangest shirt. It was over large. The skirt or hem was huge and flowing. Contrast with the long tight sleeves which had smart businesslike shirt cuffs with double buttons.  But you could not get your arms into the sleeves. A seam had been sewn right the way up over the armholes. Why? Was it a mistake? Or deliberate?  I had previously had garments with seamed pockets. Seamed Pockets On the internet you can find lots of blog posts and websites about seamed pockets. Some are sewn with secure stitching and without any pocket, just to add decoration. Others are real pockets, as you can see if you hold the garment up to the light to see where the lined fabric ...

Blue sari fabric. Photo by Angela Lansbury. You can spell it sari or saree. I had kept my saree fabric rolled up ready to be cut into a maxi dress. A generous amount of material. Discreet dark blue. All flimsy and floaty. With a reinforced decorative edging strip in red and brown. Lovely colour. Floaty fabric. But I never wore it. I had no occasion to do so. Until Diwali. But I was going nowhere on Diwali. Except down to the pool at the condo.  The favourite colour for this Hindu festival is green, and one of the ladies in this wall decoration is wearing green with gold colour trimming. You are supposed to wear new clothes.  I didn't have anything newly bought, but I did have two sarees which I had never worn. The festival started Thursday November 4th in 2021. In Southern India they celebrate for one day. In the north the holiday is extended to five days. Sartorial sea son However, at an online Zoom meeting, the President of Braddel Heights Advanced in Singapore suggested tha...

 Dress 27 Royal Blue Background, Caftan - DIY Dress Made From Wrap Skirt I used the second wrap around skirt as a cape. You could sew the cape to the dress at the centre back neck, or the two shoulders, or all the way across. leave it long or cut it to midi (calf) length, or waist length, or short bolero length. I bought two identical wrap around cotton skirts, hoping to find a reasonably priced seamstress who could convert the fabric of one into a matching top. That never happened.  So I converted the skirt into a shift dress.  I had learned to do that by converting a long scarf into a dress. I had found it on a hanger and thought, that's a pretty dress. When I took it out of the cupboard I found it was a dress length scarf. I thought, before I spend money on asking somebody to convert it, I must check I have enough material, that it hangs right, and which way up the pattern should go, and which should be the back and which should be the front. I hung it in front of myse...