Dress Of The Day with Angela

Angela Lansbury wearing rainbow hat and tee-shirt. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Rainbow hat Bought July 2024 online. The hat reverse to black to be less conspicuous or to go with other outfits. The style is called bucket shape. Brimmed.  It needs hat elastic sewn on to stop it from floating off in a gust of wind, or looking down over water or a steep drop. The hat pattern is vertical stripes. The brim has horizontal stripes. Although the stipes do not do the way way as the tee-shirt's horizontal stripes, I think they go well together. Rainbow tee-shirt.  Bought July 2024 online.  On the zippered see-through plastic bag is a small label which says Mixed colour Made in China. XL. The garment neck has no label. The washing label reveals the fabric, 95 %polyester, 5% elastane, The colours are not the traditional rainbow colours, pastel colours, but vivid red, orange, yellow, green, blue and more grey than voilet  I wrote grey. (American spelling would be gray).  The top ...

Angela Lansbury wearing rainbow scarf sewn onto a red hat, rainbow socks, and rainbow gloves. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Copyright. the alternative to go with the gloves and socks is the black background rainbow hat with pom pom. Angela wearing a rainbow knitted hat with a pom pom, bought fron North Harrow libarary,at an HOD Toastmasters meeting. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. Rainbow Gloves  Gloves in rainbow colours were displayed In Northwick Park hospital in a shop alongside Costa on the fourth floor.  The price was only 1 pound ninety nine pence, a penny under two pounds. About five different varieies of colour. I held them against my blue jacket and against my rainbow-coloured socks. Oddly, the bright blue wrist rainbow which I liked the most went least well, co-ordinated least and looked not outlandish but too vivid, distracting. I reluctantly put them aside.  I tried to reduce the other four pairs to one. Then I considred the total price, if I bought two, three...

 My husband bought a beanie hat. it was expensive. it cost 25 dollars in galeries Lafayette in Beziers France, on holiday. In two days he had lost it. My beanie hats keep sliding off my head. that is a nuisance. I am constantly picking them up off the floor.  What can you do? Elastic and Ribbons Sew on elastic. Sew on two ribbons to tie. behind your hair at the nape of the neck. Buy hat elastic. Where from? Look in a shop such as the notions department in a department store such as John Lewis in London. Check out Spotlaight in Singapore, DAISO worldwide. Scarves Sew on a scarf. to look right it should ith match in colour, or fabric, ideally both. If you cannot co-ordinate complementary colours, add a constrast. Black and white. Or match your socks o shoes or jacket. Or your hair colour or eye colour. Or lipstick. Of bag and belt. I sewed a green scarf onto a rainbow scarf. The green scarf label is Made in Italy. United colors of Benetton.  I think I bought it when there w...

Socks and Sandals  In France I wore two pairs of socks, The long socks were an accident. I did not expect to wear them except rolled down. i just grabbed them at the last moment because I wanted a pair of socks.  They were a blessing in two ways.  1 They were long and an extra layer of warmth. I could wear them under or over a pair of short socks.  2 I thought they looked odd. However, a lady at the table behind me, with her back to me, turned and said to me, "I like your colourful socks!"  We quickly became friends and exchanged phone numbers. I wore adjustable sandals to fit over the double socks. I had no tights. Then I discovered, leftover from my trip to Thailand, very thin rayon trousers. I wore them in lieu of tights. Leg covering. Another layer of warmth.  Skirt and Slip I wore a long red skirt. Underneath I wore a long black half slip. How could I cover my legs? I had brought no tights. I had to cover my legs. I found  my black swimshorts,...