I was hanging the clothes outside yesterday when I was struck by a simple question -- what is your favourite colour?
I had run a load of darks and so amidst the blacks and charcoal greys, I hung some dark blues and greens. Were any of these my favourite colour? I recall GI going through a black phase when ALL his t-shirts were black but I know for sure that black is NOT his favourite colour.
You might think that one's favourite colour would be reflected in the clothes they'd buy and choose to wear. I beg to disagree. Perhaps this would be true for the Paris Hiltons and Britney Spears of this world, for the Desperate Housewives or the Sex in the City ladies. However, for the regular office worker like me (with limited means and resources, and closet space), one has to mix and match. That beautiful blouse in red, orange or aqua will surely make heads turn. You would surely get a lot of compliments when you wear it the first time but mark my words, you would think twice before wearing it the second time. You would ask yourself when was the last time you wore that, who did you see at that time, and where did you go. But of course, there is little room for regret when it comes to buying clothes in your favourite colour, especially if wearing them gives you great joy. You will definitely find a reason or an occasion. In fact, even a simple urge would suffice. However, linking one's favourite colour to one's usual outfit is not a sure fire answer to the question at hand. When it comes too office attire, I think many people go for the classic black and white plus a sprinkling of grey. It works for me. It makes mornings a whole lot simpler and definitely less stressful. (Although I do have my share of brightly coloured clothes.)
What about clothes you wear on weekends? Would that reflect your favourite colour?
Let me see. On weekends or mufti days, as they call casual days in schools here, I would gravitate towards one of my baby pink or powder grey t-shirt. (Oh my goodness, I suddenly had a vision of me as a teenager in my pink Smurf t-shirt and my grey stretch jeans!) I could wear t-shirts in either of those colors week in and week out without thinking twice. Although I probably did just that (wear pink or grey t-shirts week in and week out) when I was a stay-at-home mom, I don't think pink nor grey is my favourite coulour.
So what is my favourite colour?
The room I shared with LondonEye was yellow. I wonder if yellow was once my favourite colour. If ever it was, that would have been ages before Cory Aquino made yellow a political color.
No, I don't think yellow is or was my favourite colour.
Possibly at one point in time, I liked the colour orange but not to the extent of it being my favorite colour. If there is a relative of orange that I would favour more than others, it would be the colour of sunrise or sunset. I love looking at the skies at dawn and at twilight. I don't think I would ever tire of watching the sun and the skies at those times of the day. (Especially if I were watching it while lying on a sandy beach.)
I have an affinity to certain shades of green. I bought a batch of beautiful emerald green crystals from Divisoria and made myself a bracelet. I have a pair of emerald green earrings which I would wear if I were not wearing my diamond studs. I set the font colour of my Outlook message replies to green at the office and I have green ink in my calligraphy pen. (Special thanks to Sunshine for getting me that bottle of ink.) I think green was once my favourite colour but because green is not really a "girl colour," somewhere along the line I managed to convince myself that it was not appropriate for me to choose that as my favourite.
Again, I ask myself -- what IS your favourite colour?
Sometimes I wish I could give a quick answer like red or blue or pink but I know that wouldn't be an honest answer coming from me.
A political answer would be "I love them all equally," as if I were being asked which of my children I consider my favourite child. However, that wouldn't be the truth either.
I have decided that it is possible to exist and not have a favourite colour. It isn't a crime not to have one, is it?
In spite the indecision about MY favourite colour, I have found that the whole exercise in not in vain. I managed to gather the favourite colours of MacGyver and the kids. MacGyver likes dark green, GI likes purple, RD likes aqua, MyGirl likes pink and purple. It is good to have this information as part of stock knowledge. You never know when it will come in handy.
(Now that I know that, I can't say green anymore because that would be copying MacGyver's answer. Needless to say, I am quite ashamed to admit that I have been married to him for seventeen years without knowing that green was his favourite colour. My only consolation is that we could live to be married for over forty more years and he still wouldn't be able to tell anyone what my favourite colour is.)
If I were pressed to give an answer, I still wouldn't know what to say. I love wearing pink; it makes me happy. I love the colour green; it is close to my heart. I love red orange especially when it is painted across the sky. But most of all, I love the colours that are made when light passes through a crystal. (Does a rainbow prism count as a colour?)
This whole dissertation and yet still no favourite colour.
How about you? What is YOUR favourite colour?
I had run a load of darks and so amidst the blacks and charcoal greys, I hung some dark blues and greens. Were any of these my favourite colour? I recall GI going through a black phase when ALL his t-shirts were black but I know for sure that black is NOT his favourite colour.
You might think that one's favourite colour would be reflected in the clothes they'd buy and choose to wear. I beg to disagree. Perhaps this would be true for the Paris Hiltons and Britney Spears of this world, for the Desperate Housewives or the Sex in the City ladies. However, for the regular office worker like me (with limited means and resources, and closet space), one has to mix and match. That beautiful blouse in red, orange or aqua will surely make heads turn. You would surely get a lot of compliments when you wear it the first time but mark my words, you would think twice before wearing it the second time. You would ask yourself when was the last time you wore that, who did you see at that time, and where did you go. But of course, there is little room for regret when it comes to buying clothes in your favourite colour, especially if wearing them gives you great joy. You will definitely find a reason or an occasion. In fact, even a simple urge would suffice. However, linking one's favourite colour to one's usual outfit is not a sure fire answer to the question at hand. When it comes too office attire, I think many people go for the classic black and white plus a sprinkling of grey. It works for me. It makes mornings a whole lot simpler and definitely less stressful. (Although I do have my share of brightly coloured clothes.)
What about clothes you wear on weekends? Would that reflect your favourite colour?
Let me see. On weekends or mufti days, as they call casual days in schools here, I would gravitate towards one of my baby pink or powder grey t-shirt. (Oh my goodness, I suddenly had a vision of me as a teenager in my pink Smurf t-shirt and my grey stretch jeans!) I could wear t-shirts in either of those colors week in and week out without thinking twice. Although I probably did just that (wear pink or grey t-shirts week in and week out) when I was a stay-at-home mom, I don't think pink nor grey is my favourite coulour.
So what is my favourite colour?
The room I shared with LondonEye was yellow. I wonder if yellow was once my favourite colour. If ever it was, that would have been ages before Cory Aquino made yellow a political color.
No, I don't think yellow is or was my favourite colour.
Possibly at one point in time, I liked the colour orange but not to the extent of it being my favorite colour. If there is a relative of orange that I would favour more than others, it would be the colour of sunrise or sunset. I love looking at the skies at dawn and at twilight. I don't think I would ever tire of watching the sun and the skies at those times of the day. (Especially if I were watching it while lying on a sandy beach.)
I have an affinity to certain shades of green. I bought a batch of beautiful emerald green crystals from Divisoria and made myself a bracelet. I have a pair of emerald green earrings which I would wear if I were not wearing my diamond studs. I set the font colour of my Outlook message replies to green at the office and I have green ink in my calligraphy pen. (Special thanks to Sunshine for getting me that bottle of ink.) I think green was once my favourite colour but because green is not really a "girl colour," somewhere along the line I managed to convince myself that it was not appropriate for me to choose that as my favourite.
Again, I ask myself -- what IS your favourite colour?
Sometimes I wish I could give a quick answer like red or blue or pink but I know that wouldn't be an honest answer coming from me.
A political answer would be "I love them all equally," as if I were being asked which of my children I consider my favourite child. However, that wouldn't be the truth either.
I have decided that it is possible to exist and not have a favourite colour. It isn't a crime not to have one, is it?
In spite the indecision about MY favourite colour, I have found that the whole exercise in not in vain. I managed to gather the favourite colours of MacGyver and the kids. MacGyver likes dark green, GI likes purple, RD likes aqua, MyGirl likes pink and purple. It is good to have this information as part of stock knowledge. You never know when it will come in handy.
(Now that I know that, I can't say green anymore because that would be copying MacGyver's answer. Needless to say, I am quite ashamed to admit that I have been married to him for seventeen years without knowing that green was his favourite colour. My only consolation is that we could live to be married for over forty more years and he still wouldn't be able to tell anyone what my favourite colour is.)
If I were pressed to give an answer, I still wouldn't know what to say. I love wearing pink; it makes me happy. I love the colour green; it is close to my heart. I love red orange especially when it is painted across the sky. But most of all, I love the colours that are made when light passes through a crystal. (Does a rainbow prism count as a colour?)
This whole dissertation and yet still no favourite colour.
How about you? What is YOUR favourite colour?
1 comment:
I agree with you. If you ask ME what my favourite colour is, I would say BLUE. I don´t know if it's just a spin-off of our colour-coding our clothes when we were younger... but it's true, I don´t have anything blue in my closet (only my nightgowns, does that count, or does that say something about the real me?)
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