Dress Of The Day with Angela

 I bought ten large scarves from St Luke's in London for one pound each. Not all at once, over four trips, once a week for a month.  Strangely, my most successful purchase was a plain colour scarf. Red. I wore it as a tunic for a change. A cheerful change. It is light weight for summer. A bright  cheerful outfit. I added a red turban and chunky red bracelets. Plus red sandals, from Free-step. Red turbans come in lots of styles and prices. They add a finish to an outfit. Also cover hair roots or bald patches or haircuts you don't like today. A new look. My turban with a flower front came from Ebay. Shein has several styles, colours and prices.  Angela Lansbury wearing a large plain red scarf as a tunic dress. Selfie photo. Selfie photo taken by using phone's timer. Edited by Angela on a Samsung mobile phone using the lasso. Turning a scarf into a tunic was simple.  Neckline Cut To start, you merely need a horizontal cut across the centre horizontally, in the midd...

  Angela Lansbury in a blue outfit made from a sari. Selfie. Photo credit Angela Lansbury. Waist tied with ribbon. Dark blue chiffon sari with coloured border in red and brown. Photo credit. Angela Lansbury. The wedding day saying is something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Here is something old make into something new, and it is blue. You can borrow my idea. The top picture shows the sari top worm over a patterned caftan. This does not work well, because the roses on the green caftan show through. Since the sari has a straight or lined edge, now close to the underlying pattern, this confuses the eye and brain. A better choice would be blue, red, brown, white or black.   How long is a saree length? Wikipedia says 15 to 30 feet long. However Quora says much less, about six feet to nine. I must measure mine. I remember going into an indian dress and fabric shop in Little India in Singapore. I fancied the sari in the window. The price was outrageous!...