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Personal Trend: Music

One of my most beloved operas, Léo Delibes’ Lakmé, presents yet another opportunity to clothe ourselves in personalized passions.
 
In way of introduction, the British regimented Gérald falls for
the exotic Brahmin priestess Lakmé

The romance initiates with the bewitching flower duet, the  ensembles follow:

Eastern inspired adornments reminisce the jewelry Lakmé removes at the pool, thus orchestrating the lovers’ introduction.
The indigenous ikat pattern weaves color and pattern like the opera weaves rhythm and tone.
A contrasting companion to the unorthodox blouse, a prim midi-skirt with rows of Victorian buttons at the hips.

To finish, a traditional oxford with an untamed tangerine twist.

This ensemble juxtaposes the East Indian ikat against military style adornments, symbolizing the unexpected romance binding Officer Gérald and Hindu elite Lakmé

What are you listening to right now? Or who is your favorite musician.

Right now I have the Super Why theme song stuck in my head.

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Personal Trend: Literature

“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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What is your favorite book?  Or who is your favorite literary heroine?

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