I’m getting ready to go to a super
formal wedding in Houston. So formal
that apparently floor length gowns are required! Wish I would have realized
that a bit earlier than a day ago, since now it is rather late to be desperately
searching for something I will never wear again. That got me thinking of dressy
items in m closet that I have purchased and have never worn. Case in point: a
lovely shantung silk dress coat from H&M.
Why didn’t I, you may ask? The same
reason I bought it in the first place: its color. Vibrantly citrusy it called
me from the rack, but every time I’d put it on I felt like a giant beacon of
orangeness. Trying it on in preparation for this wedding, however, I thought to
myself that orange needs to be embraced. Orange, after all, can make you happier.
Apparently Zara felt the same. Their
site has a whole section devoted to the color – “Orange Mood” they call it. If
you click however, not much is truly orange – and yes, I am that exacting about
my colors.
To prove my point please take
a look at this:
Lovely, but calling it ‘tangerine,’
dear Zara, doesn’t make it so! A punched up yellow cannot pass for orange.
Most of the other ‘orange mood’
items are likewise in this vibrant, gorgeous yellow, but not the orange they
claim to be, or, if they actually DO use orange it is in a supporting role only,
and a minor one at that:
Lets talk color wheel, people. Orange, you see, is a color of many
shades, running the gamut from yellow to red. Most of these, for example, I would NOT
consider true orange:
This, on the other hand, is the
perfect Platonic Orange:
And so I’m back with my dress coat.
It is so perfectly orange it glows.. I
really really ought to give it a whirl.
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