| "body"> | | | | from black to purple after a year or so in black. It's |
| Purple is one of the fashion colours of the moment, | | | | probably for this reason also, that purple can |
| look hard enough in the shops and you can spot | | | | sometimes make the wearer depressed. |
| tops, skirts, coats, even handbags and shoes in | | | | Wearing purple can send the message to others that |
| purple. It's also a colour with many different | | | | you are sensitive and intuitive, however on the |
| associations. Possibly because there's a purple for | | | | negative side it can also suggest that you are inward |
| everyone, it's a universal colour. There are the light | | | | looking and superior. |
| lavenders for the pale and interesting among us, the | | | | Packaging items in purple gives the impression of |
| violets for the warm skinned red heads, aubergine | | | | quality and richness -think of a well-know chocolate |
| for the olive skinned brunette and plum for the cool | | | | bar, the suggestion of richness is probably a |
| grey haired. | | | | throw-back to the past when the dye was so |
| It's the connections we make when we wear purple | | | | expensive that only royalty were rich enough to |
| or see purple I'm particularly interested in - And it's | | | | afford to have items coloured purple. |
| ever since I rang one of my colleagues to see what | | | | "When I am old I shall wear purple............." by Jenny |
| to wear for a corporate event and asked her if she | | | | Joseph is one of my favourite poems and when I am |
| thought I should wear my purple suit. Being an image | | | | doing colour analysis is often mentioned by myself or |
| consultant like myself she had an opinion - "oh yes" | | | | the client - most people seem to have heard of it. I |
| she said "leadership colour but after all that's why | | | | particularly like the first line because it seems so right |
| you're there". After that I was fascinated - why had | | | | - purples, lavenders, and violets suit older people in |
| she said that - and if it was true I was definitely | | | | particular and the reason for this is because peoples |
| going to wear it - and did everybody else know? | | | | colouring can change as they age and usually what |
| Since then I've learnt that purple is a big ecclesiastical | | | | happens is that they lose melanin - we all get the |
| colour and used by the Church for Lent when the | | | | natural highlights (varying shades of grey) and the |
| Church will be decorated with purple and the priest | | | | skin softens and loses warmth and guess what? |
| will wear it. And it's heavily associated with funerals | | | | Because we lose warmth we tend to look better and |
| and mourning probably from the Victorian days when | | | | better in purple. So if you're feeling your age, the |
| women had to wear mourning dress for so long after | | | | next time you're looking for a new top or shirt check |
| members of their family died and made the switch | | | | out the purples. |