Dress Of The Day with Angela

Angela Lansbury wearing pineapple pattern pyjama bottoms converted into a skirt, dress of the day 591. Photo by Trevor Sharot. I am carrying a cut pineapple, in a Denby Seville bowl. The Sandals The sandals are from Clarks. Size UK 6, Europe 39. The closure is Velcro or a similar touch and close over both the toes and across the instep. Colour a warm rusty brown. Platform heel. Curved insoles. The Headband The headband is a piece of orange ribbon, tied in a bow. It is inclined to slip off so if worn around the town it would need a hair clip or a cap or hat to hold it in place to look neat and prevent loss.  The Dress or Skirt from a converted pair of pyjama pants (the British say trousers)  I had a pair of thin pyjama bottoms with a small repeating pineapple pattern. The pineapples were tiny pale orange, each with the turquoise green tuft, on a white background. In between the pineapples are small dots of turquoise green. I cut up the inside leg seam. I could have used pinking...

  Angela in all green outfit, dress 303. Photo by Trevor Sharot Brolly is British English for umbrella. Green Skirt The skirt is actually an underskirt, for sarees, ordered from India. Heavy cotton with a drawstring of multi-plaited white rough string. Small pleats are around the hem. I ordered this style in two shades of green. Through ebay. You can see the petticoat with a different top, a totally different effect, in dress 340 with a greeny blue top.  Price just under ten Singapore dollars, about twice the cost of the similar underskirts from Mustaf Centre in Singapore, where the current price (April 2022) is about 4.95 Singapore dollars. The Straight Neck tie The straight edged neck tie in green was cut off the hem of a dress which was too long. The hem was getting caught under my shoes' toes as I walked. And dragging on the ground getting dirty. After I shortened, I had the bonus strip of green fabric to match the dress as a belt, or other green outfits. The Green Umbrell...

I have a long black slip from Marks & Spencer. In Singapore, where the tropical heat affects you indoors and out all year, it can feel sticky. However, it goes with so many items that I wear it a lot. When I take it off, I can wash it out at night. Next morning it is dry, or dry enough. The colours won't run. I went looking for something similar in Mustafa's 24 hour department store near Little India MRT underground station in Singapore. They had cotton petticoats for wearing under sarees. Drawstring waists. That was not what I wanted. But I bought three of them.   Now I need or want a green underskirt. Plain, not patterned. I have hunted through my wardrobe. I have loads of green tops but no co-ordinating skirt. The only alternatives are white and black - or contrasting orange or red. My friend Carolyn, who is Indian, and Singaporean, tells me that you can get long petticoats to go under sarees for about 2 dollars, singapore dollars, in Little India. I must go and look. I...

Blue sari fabric. Photo by Angela Lansbury. You can spell it sari or saree. I had kept my saree fabric rolled up ready to be cut into a maxi dress. A generous amount of material. Discreet dark blue. All flimsy and floaty. With a reinforced decorative edging strip in red and brown. Lovely colour. Floaty fabric. But I never wore it. I had no occasion to do so. Until Diwali. But I was going nowhere on Diwali. Except down to the pool at the condo.  The favourite colour for this Hindu festival is green, and one of the ladies in this wall decoration is wearing green with gold colour trimming. You are supposed to wear new clothes.  I didn't have anything newly bought, but I did have two sarees which I had never worn. The festival started Thursday November 4th in 2021. In Southern India they celebrate for one day. In the north the holiday is extended to five days. Sartorial sea son However, at an online Zoom meeting, the President of Braddel Heights Advanced in Singapore suggested tha...