Dress Of The Day with Angela

 Peplum picture from Wikipedia. The word peplum comes from the Greek word for tunic. It was originally a tunic tied at the waist. In modern fashion is is a tunic which comes in at the waist, but has an attention-catching ruffle or wide frill attached to create an hour-glass effect. You could also call it an overskirt. Reasons For Peplum To create an hour glass effect. To draw attention to a small waist. To make the wearer look attractive. To make the garment look more attractive. To create a new season's look so people buy new clothes. To distinguish one designer's outfits from another's. To draw attention away from the face to the waist. It was the fashion twenty years ago. Your old vintage clothes are back in fashion. Nostalgia. You loved the look last time and here it is again. It's something you can copy to turn a boring straight tee-shirt or tunic top or tunic dress into something more interesting. Reasons Against Peplum It was the fashion twenty years ago.  It...

I ordered four outfits from Temu. Temu is a marketplace, not one manfacturer, a sort of shop online. However, they sent all four items together inside one larger bag. I was pleased to have them all at once. Temu sends clothes in bags. When I order from Amazon it tends to be household goods or shoes which come in cardboard boxes. Their logo shows what they sell, clothes, accessories such as shoes and bags, toys. I was interested in clothes. The items were for warmer weather. I wondered whether to leave them neatly folded and compactly packed. Then I decided to open them. I wanted to check I had been sent the right items, sizes, colours, nothing missing, nothing I needed to return.  I would be able to give feedback if I wished to do so. Why give feedback. As a thank you. to encourage buyers to do so since I find the feedback helps me. Sometimes you have saved feedback and can check what you said about a supplier or an item. But the website might  not save your feedback forever. ...

What colours can you wear to change with the seasons? Sort your wardrobe by colour or season. List your outfits by themes and patterns. Then you won't be hunting for hearts, as I did, on Valentine's day. Match the colours to the season, the day, or your birthstone. Spring Colours Pastels Pastel pink Yellow daffodils for March, with green and white Summer colours Vibrant colours Pillar box red. Emerald green. Royal blue. June roses: red, yellow, pink. Autumn Colours & Patterns Autumn or Fall:  Rusty orange or brick red, mustard yellow, khaki green. Leaf patterns Winter Colours Winter white Green trees and plants Mistletoe, holly, fir tree Santa and santa hats in red and white Seasonal events JANUARY-February Chinese New Year. (lunar, dates vary) Red. February 14   Pink for Valentine's Day Pink hearts Red hearts Any hearts March Mid-March (variable date) Hindu Holi Festival of Spring/Colours/Love. Also celebrated by Indians, Nepalese, some Sikhs and some Buddhists and c...