Dress Of The Day with Angela

  Alpe d'Huez Top The tee-shirt collar and motif are in orange. The wearer bought it because the company which he works for has orange as their colour. Several companies online offer tee-shirts in a range of colours. This enables you to give all the staff in a restaurant or small business a matching tee-shirt. You can also create a matching parent and child outfit.  This is good on holiday. It enables you to find your family quickly in a restaurant or queue (Americans say line-up), or a busy market. You can tell bystanders who you are looking for, 'somebody wearing the same tee-shirt as me'.  The uniforms offered by suppliers to restaurants for staff serving and kitchen workers can be custome made, but even the plain ones are often expensive, especially for short runs. They may be of more durable quality because they have to last all day every day for several hours for a year or more. However, ski clothes are usually thick fabric, light to wear, and have reinforced seams ...

  Angela Lasnbury, wearing Long Tall Sally Dress 789. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Copyright. Dress The dress was bought second hand from St Luke's shop in Hatch End. It cost five pounds. The colours are orange in three shades, mainly the bright, but darkest, Mandarin colour background. Two paler oranges on the flowers. Also, some white and a little black, for some of the pattern of flowers and leaves or buds on talks. The style is a tunic. Sleeveless.  Buttons and Unusual Button Fastenings The buttons are the unusual part. One button is visible at the top. Eight others, pearly orange, the size of shirt buttons, are hidden by the placket, upwards facing. However, here's the interesting part, two extra buttons are downward facing. They do up in buttonholes cut into the buttonhole section. The are at bust height and below. I presume they are to stop the garment gapping there. It is quite hard to do them up, downwards facing. I have never seen that before. The label says made in China...

  I went attic shopping, looking for free items in my own wardrobe in the spare room. I found a red top, but short sleeved. I like to wear long sleeves to look businesslike on zoom meetings. I found an orange jacket which was too hot and heavy to wear in the hot, humid, summer weather. The jacket has a satin-look lining and huge shoulder pads, the fashion of several years ago. Since I was not wearing the jacket anyway, I wondered if I could make the coat lighter by cutting out the lining.  That would also create a second lighter jacket. The second jacket provided sleeves. Here is the result. The outfit has the sleeves from the jacket lining. Useful Websites About Angela The Author The Author - Quick Quotations Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books.  About Angela The Speaker & Trainer Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses. Braddell ...