Today's chapter is about rethinking your wardrobe, your style and the role "colour" plays in your life. Actually, in the book (Simple Abundance, A Day Book of Comfort & Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach) this chapter is actually The "Color" Story but as I am Canadian, and my mother an English teacher who's Mother hails from England, I am constantly changing it's spelling and suppress the irritation when I see it on Canadian websites etc. My father was a French teacher so no matter what language I spoke growing up, I got corrected. Now, I wish I had paid closer attention in class and had I grown up in the US, Spanish would have been the second language. My kids spent 6 years growing up in Bangor Maine where they learned how to count in Spanish on Sesame Street, unlike the French that was counted on the Canadian Sesame Street. Yes, Big Bird is actually Tri-lingual! lolAnyway, I digress, back to the original topic of building a wardrobe with staying power by investing in classic colours, which are black, white, navy, grey, beige, camel, tan, khaki, ivory and "reds". There are many shades and hues of red that include wines and russets, but find the red that looks best on you and boy oh boy to I ever get compliments when I don the sweater that I am wore for photos for the station website. I think I only have 2 red shirts in my entire closet including a pashmina that I just don't have the nerve to wear. It's just soooo bright and so out there and it might just draw attention to me. I don't really like that. I like anonymity when I am out, unfortunately the minute I speak, people (listeners) know who I am. Having a distinctive voice is GREAT on the radio, but at the grocery store, park or pub, when I want to be "just me" and not the nice lady with the nice voice on the radio, I must remember to keep my mouth shut!!
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