The evidence of...a penchant for Pink & Green

At work today a fellow Prepster and I were chatting about some new pairs of really neat Sperry Topsider flip-flops that have come into the store in various colors with wonderful madras plaid detailing. One of my very first blog posts was titled, "Sperry Soliloquy" and featured a picture of my feet happily wearing my favorite old pair of Sperry summer sandals.

We then got onto the subject of both his and my love of wearing tons of madras, our commonality of Savannah and Bonaventure Cemetery along with going to the Punch and Judy store for clothing as children and we also chatted as well about the brilliant pink and greens of Lilly Pulitzer attire. My late mother wore a lot of Lilly Pulitzer and a picture of her in one of those dresses is on this blog's sidebar plus within another early post as well. I WISH I could find a picture of me in one of my Lilly dresses from awhile ago but so far, no luck. I do wear a bit of Lilly in the summertime when I've got a golden tan going and my hair's doing the sun n' sand n' sea salt breeze uber-blonde highlights but last year, when it became must-wear-sundress-attire for the younger women in our church here, I kinda' pulled back from toting my Lilly out since it was certainly tropical hued bright enough within our light and airy sanctuary. Lilly Pulitzer's terrific in small, scattered doses but can be literally overwhelming if everyone and their mother literally is kitted out in it. Hence, my own mother and I never wore, to my memory, any of our Lilly togs together excepting our bathing suits from time to time.

And so it is, in my opinion, the same needed discernment as to the pairing of hot pink and bright kelly green as well. Whether within an outfit or within a room, this truly Preppy color combination needs some careful nuancing to work well and not go P.I.E, Preppy In Extremis'...as outlined in a post from last month all about "everything P.I.E". However, I got a really good laugh at myself this evening when I turned on my bedside table lamp just a few minutes ago for there are indeed just... ahem, hmm, quite a few er, Pink and Green items either on or right nearby this small table and so I took the picture above to share with you this laughing-at-myself moment....

Clockwise from the top: a picture frame with one of my favorite pictures of my parents in it circa mid-1980's and yes, mother's in one of her Lilly Pulitzer dresses and my father's per usual in his navy pinstripe suit with tortoise shell glasses. One of the many Tervis Tumbler drinking glasses I fill again and again with water- this one has the South Carolina palmetto tree and moon motif. A green needlepoint key chain with a pink-hued fly fishing motif. An organizational workbook with a writing pad that I keep underneath it. Finally, believe it or not, a Bible who's leather cover is green with two whimsical pink leather flowers appliqued on top. (Now if only The Book of Common Prayer came coordinated with this, wouldn't that be super cute? ;)

And so, there's the evidence of some of my Pink & Greening...and after espying a darling dress in the store today that just arrived which is a sleeveless sheath that's cream-white to the waist then kelly green for the skirt with a hot pink ribbon bow waist tie...oh my, so it continues...