Purple is the colour representing creativity and we have certainly had a creative week sussing out the source inspiration for our scarf designs. Appropriately, we now celebrate purple shades and tones.
Purple Passion
From the faintest lavender to deepest raisin
Purple garments historically have been associated with royalty because it is not a dye easily procured. Thousands of sea snails or sea urchins had to be harvested and processed to produce purple dye. The value of the costly colour rivalled that of the spices we explored a few weeks ago.
For the fairytale wedding of Charles & Diana, H issued Ich Dien in royal colours of blue and purple. This is the purple cw with an ombre effect, dark purple border lightening to a pale lavender in the centre.
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All brides are princesses for a day and, for my wedding, I had a bouquet of cattleya orchids - creamy white with a luscious fuschia purple heart, like those in the bottom left corner of this photo. The other purple orchid is the Vanda Miss Joaquin which is the national flower of Singapore. The last flower is the dark purple-hearted blossom of the passion fruit, vines of which climb heavily laden on a neighbour's wall.
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I like purple flowers, and here are a couple of scarves with purple blossom which captured my heart.
Au Coeur de la Vie which also has a bird with violet plumage. The mod shot shows it worn with black, as I was trying out
@Living.la.vida.fifi's suggestion to make the border disappear by wearing a scarf with a matching top.
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On the left, Dessins d'Orchidees in variegated shades of purple.
Purple complements blue well, which is great for me as one-third of my wardrobe is denim or chambray. Against the same shirt, C'est le Fete which sports a deep purplish plum in the background.
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Qatari Oryx, a grail for me, has grape purple from dark to light. Designer Dmitri R has rung the changes further by using a selection of fonts which play with the intensity of the purple.
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And lastly my scarf mail from a few days ago: Grande Marine. The boats are in two shades of lilac and a dark purple is used for the bow and stern.
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Let's relax this week, let our creative juices flow and seek out the purple in our scarves!
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