monochrome

[fox]

So in a fit of becoming-my-mother, I organized my drawers and my closet last night.  I feel good about this, but looking at the closet in order to be pleased with the new tidiness has made me realize something else.

I see the following colors:

black
white
brown
grey (mostly charcoal, but a couple of lighter things as well)
red
blue (mostly navy or nearly-navy, but one or two lighter blues)
purple (mostly a deeper, plummy sort of purple; not sure if I have anything lilac-y)
pink (just a bit, a kind of candy pink)

In the drawers I do a little better, in that I also have green (one kelly and one army) and a sort of coral, not at all the same as the pink but not all the way to orange.  (If you include bridesmaids' dresses, I've also got a hunter-green and a burgundy (it may actually have called itself "mulberry"), but the odds I will ever wear either of those again are nil plus the fact that they no longer fit.)

It feels weirdly monochrome in there, although writing it down I guess I can see that it's not.  But:  there are other colors, aren't there?  The entire family of yellow is, as sanj says, forbidden unto me, but ... I don't know, but I feel like now that it's September maybe there will be some kind of rust-colored stuff out there I can buy.  Provided, of course, that I will ever wear it.

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have no idea about sanj's availability, is the thing. Plus my bank balance is ... hmmm, fragile.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

yeah, I know all about squishy bank accounts. And sanj is probably still without internet. We'll figure something out, for later if not this weekend.

I'm thinking about hitting the Kennedy Center Open House Arts Festival (http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/festivals/prelude/openhouse.cfm) tomorrow, as it is free and there were be taiko drumming, but it's kind of up in the air.