Dress Of The Day with Angela

  Angela Lansbury, top right, with cream colour lace background. Lovely Lace  I love lace. I have a white lace tablecloth covering a bookcase as my background on Zoom. But white lace doileys look old, shabby and old-fashioned. You can dye them deep colours. Use them as collars, neck fillers or dickeys. Solid colour lace is quite fashionable and available in 2022. My modern lace sleeve dress was polyester. The Design & Construction Lace can be made with strong thread, fine thread, or a mixture. Chantilly lace has strong threads linking intricate and delicate patterns of leaves and flowers. Black lace can be worn as a sophisticated evening fashion. For an evening shawl. In the old days it was considered romantic and luxurious. A lace shawl would be part of the trousseau of garments for a bride-to-be. A lace tablecloth with matching lace edge napkins might be a wedding gift. It can add delicacy and distraction at a funeral or time of mourning. You can create lace with a croch...

Angela Lansbury wearing a shawl from a recycled square lace tablecloth. Photo by Trevor Sharot.   I was looking at lace clothes and eyelet dresses and blouses and scarves online. And in charity shops in the UK.  Summer Sales and Bargains Many customers, like me, are shopping and packing for summer holidays as the weather turns to warm from the chilly, May. The old saying went, 'ne-er cast a clout til May be out'. Clout would be old English or dialect for clothes.)  I asked an assistant in St Luke's hospice shop, 'When are the sales?" She told me, 'Our summer sales will be from mid-June or the end of June.' That is after many people have already bought for their summer holiday, or been away and come back. Unwanted Old Lace Tablecloths I decided it was time to go shopping in my own spare room and cupboards. What a mess. Time to tidy up. I had old lace tablecloths which nobody else liked or wanted. From the year two thousand and onwards I was busy clearing awa...