Dress Of The Day with Angela

 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 ...

  Dress of the Day 204. Orange Apart Impressions Jacket. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Jacket Orange Apart Impressions, size 7. I can wear it but it is uncomfortable so I have slung it over my shoulders. However it goes well with the blouse.  The blouse is a sixties style tie-neck blouse.  The label says Lady Lichfield, N Z made, size 36, polyester blend. When you look at the colours closely you can see two shades or paler and brighter orange circles, lavender, pale olive green, yellow, pale grey and charcoal grey.  Multi-coloured blouses Such a busy pattern. Five sizes of circles. The fabric is in strips of smooth alternating with a raised material. Making Matching Material Buttons  The buttons are self-covered in the same fabric. If you are interested in making clothes with matching buttons, you can buy buttons with a clip on top which you cover and push on. Sometimes there is a hidden spike. You could also take one of those tie pins with a spike and cover the top w...