“Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered.” Ray Bradbury
Your fashion choices can act like a clandestine symbol for the things and people you love. Take my all time favorite poetic prose novel, below I’ve assembled two outfits inspired by Ray Bradbury’s classic.
The dandelion print of the skirt echoes the themes of treasuring the common and bottling away happy moments.
The protaganist, Douglas Spaulding is remembered with a schoolboy fit dandelion yellow gingham.
White sneakers reminisce Douglas’s gazel running Cream-Sponge Para Litefoots.
The time narratives of Colonel Freeleigh and Helen Loomis and Bill Forrester (the precursor to Somewhere in Time) is made tangible by the green wrist watch.
In the hue of fresh dandelions the Peter Pan collar blouse, recognizes the resistance of never wanting to grow up.
Freshly cut, grass green denim celebrates the first day of summer: the first lawn cutting of the year.
Mrs. Bentley is remembered by the trinket ring she “stole” from the young girl she never was.
The shoes are another interpretation of the Cream-Sponge Para Litefoot Shoes
The glasses speak to the paradigm shifting realizations like Leo Aufman’s Happiness Machine.
And the belt, well it was a cute belt.
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Keep these posts coming! I am really enjoying it.
Jamee
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I agree, I have loved the interpretations you have made. Georgia OKeefe was perfection and I love the colors for this one. I am excited to see what is next.
This post makes me so incredibly happy. Love that book and love these picks!!!
Wow, what a captivating post. I love the colors and theme glowing through. It makes me want to read that book, and I would so sport those outfits!