Dress Of The Day with Angela

Angela Lansbury wearing a pink, straw, fraying, beachcomber hat. Photo selfie by Angela Lansbury.    I thought I wasn't wearing my glasses. My hat straw got in the way.  The straw was over my eyes and so my glasses focussed on the straw. I had to tilt my head to see under the straw. I thought I wasn't wearing glasses. Those annoying straws interfered with my vision. I didn't like those prickly spokey, spikey straws on my face, near my mouth and nose and eyes. And on my shoulders.  I took off the hat. I looked it up online. It was a style called Beachcomber. Plenty like it.  I hunted for fixing it. You can make them waterproof with a spray of Shellac. But nowhere were instructions for plaiting up the edges and sealing them down. It would take hours. Then clear nail varnish? Or sew in a circle? Then cut back the protruding spikes? I tried it on the other way round. Ah! The hat was not stupid. I was stupid. The hat bent upwards over the forehead and hung down at th...

  Angela Lansbury. Photo by Trevor Sharot. White Umbrella Orange Skirt  The orange skirt has a pleated hem. It is sold as a cotton underskirt for sarees, in Mustafa's 24 hour department store in Singapore. They stock several colours and two styles of hem. Orange bag Orange tote bag Orange shoes Orange brim sunhat Singapore Tee-shirt Singapore has lots of tee-shirts with colourful orchids patterns. The national flower is the orchid Miss Joachim. You will find the dearer garments in the shops of the Botaical Gardens, Cheaper ones in Orchard Road souvenir shops, and cheaper still in the pop up kiosks and hanging rials by the suburban MRT (underground railway) train stations and in the atriums of shopping malls at the time of festivals, of which there are many. Please share links to your favourite posts Caption All fired up in orange. Suggested by Jennifer Lim on Facebook.