Dress Of The Day with Angela

Red shawl for dinner. Photo by Trevor Sharot. I was wearing a white silk night dress, brand Patra. I had an aftrnoon nap and decided not to crease and crumple my day dress but to get back into my night dress   I transformed it in half a minute into an evening outfit by throwing on my red evrning shawl. I had had the foresight to hang the shawl on a bedroom hanger in order to dress quickly. On a previous evening on my long  weekend trip to Thailand I had left the same shawl either in the suitcase or a bedroom drawer and when we left the bedroom in a hurry to join the family for dinner I could not find it in a hurry  They say you learn by your mistakes  I did  Theory is to have the evening's outfit all on one hanger in one place such as the far right of your bedroom wardrobe at home or on holiday. I remember somebody gave me a whie hanger painted with the words mother of the groom (I think they bought a set of six for bride and groom and parents of the...

  Here I am with a Champagne bottle. The Background You have to be very careful when taking photos in ooh la la venues. Some stately homes forbid photos. Either they want to charge you money. Or they want to check who is taking photos so that if they are burgled they can guess who was the culprit or where the photos were published to attract unwanted attention. I would not want to be blamed, or censured, or feel guilty. So I reckoned a photo of a Champagne bottle which will be emptied and thrown away could not attract any anxious attention from the building's security team. What you can see is that the curtains and carpet have a co-ordinating pattern.  Accessories and Props The staff have supplied buckets for the Champagne starter drink for our lunch. It was a bring your own bottle lunch. My husband Trevor had chosen the menu from the club choices. He matched the style of drink to the food. Champagne, with almonds and cashew nuts for the pre-lunch chat, white wine with the sta...