Going to do a post and run, as unlike Dykinga, I won't get a second chance at shopping, cooking and serving up dinner today! :-p
This one, while seemingly one of the simplest images (less variation of textures and objects and foci), was quite a doozy due to its sheer panorama of a palette. And made me pair things I'd not have thought to put together in a million years without this challenge. Thank you, Bella! You just helped me cross a whole mile of territory in Recoveringcolourphobesville!
Basically, it's a lot of stripes and twists, this outfit. The tunic and flowing salwar pants are garments I pair pretty often in this combination. The stole was pushing it for my usual conservative *palette*! It has the EXACT colours of the image, apart from the white.
The glassy water was hard --- I used wire-wrapped coin earrings to suggest that flat gleam of twists.
The waterworn striae are echoed especially in my salwars, as they are tie-dyed in what we traditionally call a wave pattern ('leheriya') and the crushed cotton in this flowy cut gives them a lively undulating effect. But of course my tunic has stripes too, and twisted pleats at the cuffs, which also carry the leitmotif.
So do my glass and lacquer bangles. The laquer one, which represents the driftwood for me, was actually fashioned by a craftsman in front of my eyes, to order, in a few seconds. As fascinating as knowing a river carved those rocks, and as mindboggling. The glass ones are made in similar style, though weren't made in my presence. My hairpin holds in place a quick twisted updo, and is also a bright squiggle against my streaky hair.
My sandals, barely seen are three stripes of gold, silver, and bronze. My rings are also twists and stripes -- one eternity ring, one cocktail ring with curly waves etched in an angular face over a twisted set of stripes (they run crosswise on one end and parallel to the face on the other end, crossing over inside on the palm).
My hair refused to lie smooth, but I sure had fun with all the twists and turns today. Thanks again for this fun challenge, Bella!
[PS: I actually wore this same outfit, bar the scarf, on Sunday to see my folks. Incidentally, for a Bengali married woman, it is considered inauspicious to have her wrists bare. Ideally, one wears a white conchshell bangle and a red coral one; I don't do that tradition but my mother really grieves over my recalcitrance. This was my comforting nod to her preference: a white and a red bangle together, notwithstanding the colours in the rest of my outfit had no connection to them!)]
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