Although I'm not a great shopper for clothes, or in any way a clothes horse, people's choices in what they wear always fascinates me.  Some people dress almost in a uniform, wearing the same as their peers.  Some people like to be different.  Some people aren't too bothered what they wear.

I've been through periods in my life when I've dressed almost entirely in black.  I'm not sure why it was.  Maybe to disappear, maybe because it was easy.  When I worked at a law firm almost everyone wore black or navy or grey.  The annual general meeting was a vast expanse of dark gloomy colours, with just a sprinkling of colourful characters.

It took me a while after leaving to discover clothes in other colours.  I stuck to black for a while, for everything, even a purse or an umbrella.  If they didn't have it in black, I didn't buy it.  But after a while it occurred to me that there were other colours.  I had a brief affair with pink.  It seemed the most opposite colour to black.  Light, frivolous, girly.  I still have one or two pink t-shirts in my wardrobe.

But as time went on I gravitated more towards cool blues and greens, and the natural colours of oatmeal and honey.  Except for the odd bit of pink, there are no hot bright shades, no orange or red or yellow.  But the cool soft colours of the natural world are there in abundance.  I'll never be a peacock, but maybe a pale brown moth or a blue sky.  It's how I am I think.


Tell me, is your wardrobe full of one colour, or are you brave enough to try it all?

To visit the other Colour Collaborative blogs for more of this month's posts, just click on the links below: 

                   Annie at Annie Cholewa                                  Gillian at Tales from a Happy House

                   Sandra at Cherry Heart                                  Jennifer at Thistlebear

                   Sarah at Mitenska

What is The Colour Collaborative?

All creative bloggers make stuff, gather stuff, shape stuff, and share stuff. Mostly they work on their own, but what happens when a group of them work together? Is a creative collaboration greater than the sum of its parts? We think so and we hope you will too. We'll each be offering our own monthly take on a colour related theme, and hoping that in combination our ideas will encourage us, and perhaps you, to think about colour in new ways.