Dress Of The Day with Angela

 If you are looking for embellishments for an outfit, consider sewing on large buttons with your favourite motif. Elphant buttons are sewn onto Thai clothing. They are on foldover / wrap blouses which fasten underneath with hidden snaps (which in England we call press studs). Here are elephant buttons which I ordered in a large size. You can get elephant buttons in all sizes and designs, as well as owls and other motifs. I ordered these three elephant buttons online. They are bigger than I expected and beautiful.  I have already ordered a blue Thai top with the classic three elephant buttons.  I already have a top in red which I bought years ago in Singapore in a clothes shop in Holland Village. I can't find my red top. Maybe it's in storage.  I can see it in a photo of 231 in this blog.  The three buttons are below the bust across the tummy to the waist area. The red skirt completes the look, but does not have buttons. The fabric is stiff and creases a bit. Yet...

Angela Lansbury wearing a black skirt with Thai elephant decoation, and a Priciples blouse. Photo from Angela Lansbury.  Copyright. Black, I thought, back to black. Then I remembered that is the title of an Amy Winehouse song. She went back to black because she was depressed about the end of a relationship inspired by her real life on-off relationship. But I am happy and excited by my conveniently long, warm skirt and cute elephant decoration. Let's move back to the black clothes which I chose. Elephant button decoration on Thai skirt. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. The Skirt0  The long black Thai skirt has a metal elephant decoration sewn on above the front slit. The fabric is thick, so the long skirt is warm on a cold, wintery day.  I love the elephants. They turn an everyday item, in thick cloth, into something unique and special, different, elegant. I hunted everywhere for these metal elephants which I have on tops, as well. No luck. Somewhere I have a red top w...

  Angela Lansbury wearing a complete kurta outfit with matching trousers and scarf. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Copyright. Blue Outfit's  Trousers - Fine At First Sight I loved the pale blue outfit, which you can see without the trousers in the previous post. I pulled on the blue trousers. They had wide legs. That would make a change. Hm - maybe I should wear another colour.  Red & Beige Outfit - Tight Trousers! I decided to wear a red and beige outfit, with the beige trousers. When I tried to pull on the beige trousers, I discovered the lower legs were tapered and too tight. Not only would they not pull over shoes, they would not pull over my feet. I lay them out on the bed to look at them carefully.  Press Studs I noticed a metal circle, what the Americans call a snap, and the English call a press stud. The two halves were a few centimeters apart. I pressed them together. Sure enough, they fitted. They brought the already tight trousers together even tighter at the...