As @Veritybelle said, I'm loving the mixed metals, but even more, I adore the color combo and how sophisticated you look with just a simple drape over your shoulders!
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You and @Veritybelle are too kind…thank you
I’d like to say that I planned the outfit but, in fact, I got to work where the AC was overpowering and then the triangle was delivered (I have most H packages sent to work to ensure a signor!) and I threw it on over my tee shirt.
I love it too. Such a wonderful cw, so elegant and fresh. The bright blue accent colour is so pretty. And your whole outfit is to die for. I love the jewellery and the warm gold color of your bag.
Honestly, this might be the most chic response to aggressive office AC I’ve ever seen.You and @Veritybelle are too kind…thank you
I’d like to say that I planned the outfit but, in fact, I got to work where the AC was overpowering and then the triangle was delivered (I have most H packages sent to work to ensure a signor!) and I threw it on over my tee shirt.
You are! My first one that I purchased ~15 years ago. I recently had it polished and buffed upon learning that she is retiring. It is blue laboradite (sp?) and goes with almost every scarf I own!
I should add @Maedi that I often wear my Jamie Joseph rings as scarf rings much to the delight of my local SM!
Her retirement came as a surprise. Your stone sounds gorgeous and the ring goes so well with your bracelets.
A little late on this, but echoing others - I love this new addition to your très chic style!
What an amazing array! You are the GT
Are those Quadridge Bayadere?
I ask all these brands (Hermes and Gucci) why they call stripes 'Bayedere' (in Italian = Baiadera). Apparently no one knows. Do you know, did they tell you.
I know! I know! It’s actually a ballet thing!
I’m currently very deep in the trenches of trying to teach the impressionist-art deco-modernist pipeline. Which means that I’m trying to show how cultural shapes art which shaped culture. Which is why I know more than I should about a ballet which wasn’t performed outside of Russia between 1920 and 1980
So between 1870 and 1912, exoticism sold tickets to ballets, and after people left the ballet, they wanted to buy things that reminded them of how they felt - Louis Cartier notoriously began to design sapphires and emeralds next to each other after seeing Ballet Russe.
Bayadere was a Petipa ballet from 1877, about an Indian temple dancer. (We get the French word from the Portuguese sailor’s bailadeira) The costumes featured vibrant horizontal stripes. So by 1880, Indian silk with horizontal stripes was called bayadere in reference.
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It's OK, I got to the bottom of it. Bayadere comes from the Portuguese bailhadera which just means dancer. Stripes were what Portuguese peasants wore to dance regional dances and they were very distinctive. It's just like Polka dots got their name from Polka costumes. It actually looks Southern European, probably bailhadera was just changed to the spelling of baiadera in Italian at Gucci. It doesn't have anything to do with the Petipa ballet.
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I've seen tens of productions of La Bayadère over the years, I've danced it in Rep class. I'd never known the costumes to be created in or depicted historically in costumes made of stripes. (Nikiya) was an Indian temple dancer, a member of the devadasi (made illegal in the late '80s). I am sure that the devadasi were exoticised and obsessed over by Western cultures in the 19C like Geisha in Japan or Chinese concubines and/or foot binding. Obviously, sex workers (or women thought to be) are a source of fascination in every culture but they are not connected to striped fabric. It's the exotic fascination of the devadasi that gave us the fantasy of Petipa's La Bayadère.
At Hermes, it will be in reference to the peasant dance dresses of Portugal too, heaven knows why they spelled it Bayadere and not Bayadère
Just got back from a trip and can once again praise the versatility of my CSGT - I wore it elegantly with a dress, over the shoulders for some warmth, tied around the neck, as a blanket on the plane -
I only took a picture of it late, tied messily around my neck unfortunately..
I only took a picture of it late, tied messily around my neck unfortunately..
I love my giant triangle! I only have one but it’s perfect for the weather we’re having right now that’s oscillates between warm and cold! It was perfect for dinner last night where I went from humid and muggy outside to freezing AC inside!
First, many thanks to @redheaddem, @Ladybaga and @papertiger for your suggestions and recommendations regarding gifting the giant triangle versus the shawl 140 for my friend. I traveled out of state last week and spent well over on hour playing with both pieces. Ultimately, I decided on the Thalassa 140. I was impressed with the versatility both scarves offered, but it came down to the warmth factor. The store had the AC on full blast so that was helpful. My friend has Raynaud syndrome, and I thought at the very least, she could us it as a throw on the plane or elsewhere. Thank you again for your thoughtful insights.