Angela Lansbury in Blue dress with mushrooms. Photo copyright Angela Lansbury.
Searching For Mushrooms
The dress was made from a tee shirt and matching shorts. Since I don't wear shorts, I cut off the elasticated waistband, cut apart the crotch, and sewed the top of the shorts onto the bottom of the tee-shirt. Now I have a dress. The fantasy mushrooms are pink, green, blue, yellow-orange, purple, rust red.
You have to be careful about picturing and promoting mushrooms. In the UK I met a girl from a cookery magazine. We discussed mushrooms and the fact that the British tend to go for button mushrooms, or giant mushrooms. The French eat many varieties and pick them in the wild and can go into any pharmacy wheere the staff will produce a book or poster to identify edible mushrooms, and, of course, those which are poisonous.
Fortunately, the mushrooms on my dress are fantasy. Not the dangerous red one with the white spots. On the top of my dress, the large mushroom is pink, purple blue. All have white and coloured dots. I put this photo on Facebook and asked for captions. I looked for songs but they were all about psychedelic mushrooms, unsuitable for me, as a non drug taker and teacher, nor for a family audience. I was thinking about the French eating mushrooms and mushrooms as wholesome food, but these are mushrooms of fantasy, perhaps Alice in Wonderland.
The label on the tee-shirt is Guhit Kamay. When I looked at the label, I tried finding a seller on the internet. I found a paint shop. I vagely remembered asking the art-paints shop in Singapore if they had any tee shirt sets in different sizes or would re-stock, and hearing an assistant say they were one-offs to demonstrate the use of their paints on fabric.
I was wearing my dress showing the mushrooms when I started looking for a quotation to go with it.
The caterpillar sat on a toadstool in Alice in Wonderland.
Alice in Wonderland was written in England but is popular worldwide.
In the UK you can see a stained glass window.
Alice in Wonderland featured in an innovative ballet.At Sadlers Wells.
In 2012 the Royal Ballet produced an innovative performance of Alice in Wonderland. choreographer Christopher Wheeldon OBE. Canada joined in the production. It has since been to other countries.
New York has a statue of Alice and mushrooms and the mad hatter in his hat and the rabbit in Central Park, New York.
Australia has another statue.
Interesting Websites
Fabric Paint
Amazon.com sells fabric paint.
https://canarystreetcrafts.com/how-to-turn-any-acrylic-paint-into-fabric-paint/
https://acrylicartworld.com/does-acrylic-paint-work-on-fabric/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Flight_to_the_Mushroom_Planet
Mushrooms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushroom
About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting the first Wednesday of the month, Usually on Zoom. But the other Wednesdays have workshops on app learncool.sg
For meetings learncool it is quicker to type and easier to remember:
Useful Websites On Speaking and Languages
translate.google.com
duolingo.com
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html
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