Dress Of The Day with Angela

  I co-ordinated the black and red of the top with a red skirt, red trousers, and burgundy and black boots. Please share links to your favourite posts.

  Angela Lansbury wearing a white knitted cardigan, vintage label Anthony Sicari. Photo by Trevor Sharot.  The Sicari Cardigan's Features  The cardigan has short sleeves. These allow the wearer to display parts of the blouse underneath, especially one with elegant sleeves and cuffs. The style is a mid-season style, neither very light for hot August nor very heavy for a snowy winter. The style.adds warmth. But the garment can be removed quickly if the temperature changes. Fabrics The knitted white fabric is 7% acrylic, 25%, exclusive of trim.Hand wash. Lay flat to dry. Do not iron. Do not bleach. RN 67384. The Fabric edging to the neck, vertical front and sleeves is the typical Anthony Sicary brightly coloured shiny fabric.  The hem is curved. This softens the look, and echoes the rounded neckline. Colour The predominant colour is white, snow white. The fabric for the edgging is white with dark pink and dark green. Green and pink are opposite colours on the spectrum a...

 Green replacement button. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Start colouring dark green 31, water colour pencil. Photo by Angela Lansbury. I bought this jumper in St Luke's charity shop in NW London England. It was reduced to under five pounds because it wasn't selling. The garment was missing one of the buttons on one of the sleeves. On the cuff. No spare buttons supplied. I wore it, with the missing button, to a dinner party at a private home. I discussed with a couple of friends what I could do to restore my top. The missing button was in position four out of five counting up from the end of the cuff. If it had been the last button I could have folded the ends of the cuffs up. But I needed another solution.  Remove the end button and sew it in the gap? So I would have five buttons on one cuff and four on the other cuff. I could turn back one cuff, or both. Remove one button from the other sleeve. So that I had four on each sleeve? Sew on one odd button? Remove button in position 2 ...