19 July 2024
This morning, I made a command decision to try to find a red top, or dress, to purchase for autumn. I want to get into The Spirit of the Proceedings in the U.S.A.
Red is not my best color to wear. My cool-toned skin and warm-toned hair wreak havoc with that shade. I can get away with a blue-toned red, in real life, but on-camera, the results are comedic!
I still recall The Christmas Photo of myself and Dear Hubby, circa 2006, wherein we each wore a red sweater, and stood side-by-side. The effect was 2 spouses blending, body-melding together in only the weirdest of ways.
I’ve still got the pic, stored where only I know its location [the secret intel-weapon of every smart file-clerk/secretary]. That photo-op is a very useful reminder to Self to never wear RED on Christmas Day!
Which leaves me with green.
And, gosh, there’s so much of that stuff just oozing out of the Haters.
I do look good in green.
And I did wear green-on-green (shirt underneath sweater-dress) during Christmas of 2008. Dear Hubby had worn his green sweater the previous Christmas, 2007. Which was my signal to contrast, sharply, with an orange cardie over a brown thermie-top with embossed Scottie-Dogs.
Purchasing vintage Made-in-the USA-clothes has been my remedy for far too long during the past 4-6 years. I long to see one article of true-blue red sophisticated attire in a natural fiber, Made in America, hanging in my Made-in-The-USA closet.
I went through that closet, this morning, to assess the color palette, in terms of the frequency of RED. All 4 of my garments date back to 2012 or earlier, with one exception of a red-cape dress from the spring of 2023. That ensemble persists in possessing sad overtones from my saying goodbye to my beloved hound Chance in late May.
Time and distance will most effectively help me to deal with parting from those tactile souvenirs. In time, that dress shall remind me of the triumph of courage over grief.
I truly do want to move forward with my life. Clothing might seem like a frivolous and materialistic commodity. And, yet, there are times when one must heal from the outside in. A lovely, soothing adornment of the temple of the Lord is a magnificent way for a woman to respect that miracle of life.
Coming up with an Outfit for the Holidays in the USA became less of a hunter-gatherer activity for me, from 2017-2019. I’m ever-so-thankful for those brief, yet turbulent, years of finding and buying some natural fibers and American-made garments. Today, however, I returned to gleaning online selling-platforms that must be seeing red, i.e. hemorrhaging profits.
I won’t call this coincidence a conspiracy, but the color RED seems to have been eliminated from most globalist fashion-conspiracy-sites. A despondent shade of orangey-brick-red is omni-present, a hue that is not a huckleberry above my persimmon in terms of color quality.
There’s also the appalling obviousness of the almost-insulting, hokey PR that’s become a sick joke to the American consumer. Marketing was once-upon-a-time an art form in America, not an oily form of fraud. Domestic companies online pitch their wares as Made-In-The-USA, but the crap is produced in Over-There.
There’s one California company, headquartered, of course, in the pit known as SanFran, that is being sued, on behalf of the Taxpayer, by the federal government, for hawking goods under blatantly fraudulent online-descriptions.
It’s a major coup for us, the anti-commies in California.
A high-end, and formerly-desirable department-store site has gone the full road from treating the customer as queen, or king, to viewing the patron as peasant. This company presently peddles only the best in synthetic garb, that gets listed as natural fibers.
The particulars of A Wool Coat: 50% recycled polyester, 40% rayon, 5% spandex, 5% wool.
Lies, lies, all the time.
The Scots came to my rescue, just in time.
The most smart and savvy of weavers, in the heart of the Scottish Borders, proudly designed and created the Red Rose tartan, based on the Burns Check . . .
Yes, my love is a red, red rose, not a post-recycled poly-rayon-spandex blend that’s guaranteed to Save the Planet.