Dress Of The Day with Angela

  Angela Lansbury. Photo by Trevor Sharot. For a fun photo, add a matching fan.  Pick a colour from a multi-colour dress. Match the shoes to your accessory colour. I have added red lace gloves. London has a fan museum. In Greenwick, South London. DIY Fans Fans come in two basic shapes. concertina or circle.  DIY Concertina Fans If you have an old fan, which is bedraggled, you could take it apart to see how it is made. Then copy it. Or reconstruct it, repairing the damaged parts. At a Chinese New Year and Mid Autumn Festival events at a condo in Singapore, after the event lots of torn paper fans lay on the ground. This was before Covid-19 when I was not so cautious about touching anything which had been touched by anybody else's hands. The pink and purple paper had glittery gold edges. I thought, that is lovely paper which can be used for Greeting cards. However, after cutting off the torn parts, I found that I could construct a smaller fan, or stick the paper from two fan...

Dress of the day, outfit 199. Pink fan, Pink Patra top and pink Barbie tunic. The Pink Clothes Patra printed pale pink top. Worn over a pale pink barbie tunic with spaghetti straps. Dark pink brim hat. Dress of the day 199. Valentine's Day. Fan of Pink. I love pink. I am a fan of pink. You may have seen the pink fan previously and the hat previously with another outfit.. The Pink Fan  I am holding a pink fan. The pretty pink paper fan, edged with gold, had torn in two. I restored it with a concertina of A4 white paper as backing.  I took two pieces of white A4 paper from a pile of used paper printed on one side. I folded together the printed sides so that that the clean white was outside.   To make the concertina creases, I folded one piece in half along the long side so the crease was parallel to the short side.  I then continued. If the crease was too loose, I firmed the crease by folding the paper the other way. I used a metal ruler as a guide.  I attach...