The Fashion Project

I have a very love/hate relationship with turquoise. I hated the color from infancy until about two years ago. But because I was so used to living with my disdain for it, it took me a long time to recognize that I actually didn't hate it anymore.

I don't know why I have such complex relationships with colors, but I do. I hated purple (except for lavender) until I was in my early twenties. On the other hand, I loved green, all shades of green, and insisted it was my favorite color from early childhood until my late teens, when I discovered a sudden apathy for green that continues to this day.

Instead of being clearly drawn to certain colors and clearly repelled by others like I used to be, now I am drawn to and repelled by colors based on a complex combination of mood, weather, season, state of mind, and perhaps other unknown psychological factors. I know this because one day I might go shopping and see a blouse I really like in pink. Then I'll go back to the same store a few days later and I find that I prefer the blouse in blue instead. There have been times I've gone back to the store a third time, and found I like neither pink nor blue, or that I have discovered a clear preference for one or the other, or I am attracted to a different color entirely. When this happens, I do one of two things. I decide the color based on what it matches in my current wardrobe, or I don't buy it. There is nothing I hate more then deciding on a color, only to get home and find I've made the wrong choice. Better not to buy at all.

So, back to turquoise. I loved this turquoise scarf when I saw it, and it fits into my current crusade to buy solid color scarves. It also matches a necklace I picked up at a vintage shop in Tokyo a few years ago. I can't wear long dangling necklaces anymore because the weight hurts my neck, so I've adapted it into a bracelet instead.