Dress Of The Day with Angela

 Searching Ror A Replacement Waistband Taking clothes out of storage, after moving from one country back to another, I found some old clothes. Lovely clothes. But alas, some of the skirts were too small. Maybe I had grown larger, Maybe I had made a mistake buying on the internet. I needed to make alterations. I had pleated skirts to alter, and skirts with gathers, and tight skirts with very little spare fabric.  Missing Waistband After Alteration I had made one skirt wider by removing the waistband and flatterning out the gathered part. When I put back or left on the waistband, half of it was missing. I could have taken off all the waistband. I decided to leave part of it at the back. Insert a small contrasting section at the front. I could have hidden the new part at the back under a long jacket, but that would have left gathers at the front. I wanted the skirt flat over my front, with more give at the back when sitting down. Cutting The Tie I was looking for a piece of wide ...

Angela Lansbury in straw hat from Brazil, advertising the northern Ceara area. Selfie Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. I have not yet visited Brazil, so my straw hat which has a hat-band advertising Ceara in Brazil must have come from the World Travel Market. The World Travel Market is a trade show held in November in London at a conference centre in the East End of London reached on driverless the monorail. The Elizabeth line will make the East End of London easier to reach. Brazil and Ceara Region The upward accent is on the second a, the last letter of the name Ceara. It is the acute accent, stressed. The language of Brazil is Portuguese, unlike the rest of South America which speaks Spanish. Hat Style The hat is the same shape as a fedora (shown in felt in Wikipedia) which has a crease from the front to the back on the crown. The brim curves up all around. Mne falls over my eyes and has to be lifted to show my face in photos, at which point the hatband is invisible, hidden behi...