As you can see in the top photo above, I also wear pants to Main Dining on Royal Caribbean. I like to have my scarf around my neck (my neck gets cold), and a handbag. The scarf is an estate sale scarf that I purchased for $2.00. I add a touch of color to my handbag to match my outfit. To find the right color to attach to my handbag, I find an old piece of clothing in the color I need in my closet and cut a strip that I can attach to the handbag with a safety pin. Old fashioned girl here!!
The white linen pants outfit above, is not a matched white set, but both are linen so it looks like a matched set. Another waddable of mine. The wrinkles do not matter when it comes to linen.
The pants and top both are from my thrift store (Salvation Army). The pants are made by Gap Clothing. I love Gap clothing. It fits me. The top is made by Kim Rogers, a brand I found in the past (when I shopped in department stores) at Belk’s. I’ve always loved Belk’s. My mom would take me in there when I was young. The entire store smelled of gardenias, just like the gardenias beside my grandmother’s front porch. The smell made me feel like I was in a good place, a place of love.
I made the two white handbags I’m showing you. The one on the left is made from a white sheet that I doubled and then used the belt of an old robe to make the handles. I have a slim piece of white cardboard that I cut to fit the bottom of the larger white bag. That way, the bottom of the bag doesn’t hang down like a clothes bag. A flat bottom lets everything rest on it and gives the handbag a more structured look. That larger bag I particularly like because I can fit everything I need into it. I like to carry by Apple iPhone, my reading glasses, a plastic carrying case that contains any meds I need at the dinner hour, Splenda, and tissues.
I made the smaller bag before I made the larger because I didn’t take into account the amount of items I used when I was out of the room. The smaller bag was a dust cover for a Michael Kors handbag that I purchased at Macy’s years ago. I just chopped off his precious name at the bottom, sewed a seam across the bottom and turned it inside out. The drawstring at the top was a bonus. It was already there so I didn’t have to worry about making handles.
I still use the smaller bag when I know we are going back to our stateroom to change clothes before we go to the ice show or some other show.
Whatever you wear, it doesn’t matter. You will be you. You will be making memories that you will carry with you always, memories as good as the smell of gardenias.
Thank you for reading.
Trish
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