How Green Is My Valley
I haven’t worn green for St. Patrick’s Day in years — because I thought it was silly or because I wanted to get pinched, I dunno — but I might just be wearing it every other day of the year. I’ve been pretty near obsessed with the color for a while now. For one thing, Lainey Keogh has amazing greens in her palette (she’s Irish after all!) so I’ve been adding to my collection pieces in every shade from lime to avocado to seafoam.
But it’s getting a little ridiculous. Last week I just picked up some crazy expensive watermelon tourmaline slices (as the name suggests, they look like slices of watermelon, pink in the middle and green on the outside) to make into a necklace with some tiny green garnets. I’m planning to wear it night and day, less because I won’t ever be overdressed and more because I need to justify spending so much money on those beads!
Even more tellingly, when I went to a trunk show the other day for a designer who does truly luxurious made-to-measure clothes, it seems like all I wanted to try on were in the green portion of the rack: the pistachio silk-wool blend evening coat, the silk jungle print dress, the clover and cream floral print halter dress, the olive beaded jacket… It didn’t matter if only some of the greens looked good on my complexion. I need them all like I used to need brand-new, virgin Crayola crayons every school year — even though time and time again there would be crayons that remained untouched at the end of the year (and still you needed to get new ones in the fall, preferably the 128 box with the pencil sharpener in the back). I don’t care, I’m planning to order both dresses and the coat to wear to the two weddings I have to go to this summer.
So guess what that means? Next stop: green shoes, baby!
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March 18th, 2006 13:59
Fianlly a girl after my own heart! Green is a georgeous color that looks great on everyone and dosen’t get enough attention! There are so many shades:
Kelly Green (which is great on black people with darker skin tones; its ok on lighter skin too, but only if you wear it ironically) is hot this season!
March 18th, 2006 17:22
I thought I was on the wrong site! Where are your shoes? Okay I’d settle for you showing us your handbag or some of these gorgeous sweaters. But I do miss seeing your shoe collection…
March 18th, 2006 19:48
Sorry, the shoe pix were down for a few minutes while the website’s design is being updated… but they should be back now!
June 26th, 2006 10:03
Any chance of seeing pictures of the completed necklace? I am also obsessed with watermelon tourmaline these days, and can’t stop drooling over a strand at my local beading store.