Week 23

I’m hoping my iPad will work for a few sentences before it plays up again! So here goes. COLOUR is so important to us all. I know that I tend to gravitate to strong, bright colours. I’ve been likened by family members to a parrot, always attracted to the vivid and vibrant. I think that these suit, rather than paler, and more subtle tones. I like reds, blues, yellows, and greens, and of course black and white. I don’t often choose brown( though know it can suit) . I can wear certain shades of pink which isn’t a colour Im too fond of, and of course there are the purples and oranges to name but a few.

This is my week for a personal rant! Colour analysis, At one time people paid out good money for someone else, ( often without much training!) to dictate what colours they should wear dependent on what season of the year represented their skin tone. People then addeared to this and always wore colours based on what season their particular skin tone matched. Where I live, a lady colour analyst was never seen out in anything other than blue and purple hues topped off by a purple beret, rendering her like a large blackberry. She never wore any other colours! I do understand that certain colours suit more than others and I also understand that people lack confidence. But the joy of colour is to wear colours you like and enjoy wearing. I know that shades of blue suit me and flatter my complexion but I don’t want to be constrained or dictated to in the colours I wear. In fact I often err towards wearing clothes to match the seasons, and natural environment. I tend to wear more black in the winter and more flowery materials in the summer months.

Sorry, if I have offended but it is a pet hate. I don’t like being dictated to and of course I love individuality . Perhaps, though in lockdown I should open my mind and find out what colours I should have been wearing all my life. Though that doesn’t mean I will wear them.!