colour

as you can see from the stash pic - there's a slight issue in the gusset camp. it's blue. while it would have looked smashing on blue eyed tina, it's just not our thing. there's a woman whose fashion advice we dig - brenda kinsel. in her book brenda's wardrobe companion there's lots of exercises and thinking and practical ways of uncovering what you really love. leafing through an old newpaper weekend magazine, there was an image that took our breath away - a huge, beautiful, multicoloured moth (the pink/brown one on the first page of the article is similar), part of the photographs of joseph scheer, who has put a book together.

as weird as it might sound, dressing in the colours of a moth isn't too far off some of brenda's recommendations - such as to look at the colours in nature and in food (even though we'd baulk at doing it, we liked the dressing as a sundae bit - vanilla white, cherry red, chocolate brown...)

the pink and neutral colours go together so beautifully. so while going brown is probably pushing things a little, we did have a play with landscape dyes today, and here's the results:

the colours (which are quite a bit different to real life thanks to scanning and monitors and whatnot) were sampled from 3 landscape dyes - working from left to right, desert pea (orange red), grevillea (pink-red), bloodwood (plum), grevillea and bloodwood together, a mix of all three.
the winner is the mix of all three, which is a deep rich burgundy tone which will go with all our pink stuff and is kinda moth like into the bargain.