happy summer solstice! longest day of the year & official first day of summer!
intense sunlight + saturated color = summer
think of sherbet, mangoes, and the candy-colored houses of the tropics…the vibrant tones of summer sparkle in sunlight…they make us smile…whether we wear hot pink as an accessory to show off a tan…or a pool-blue suit to cool us off in the heat of july…
we can wear summer colors as an accent or the main event…but they are…like the season that inspires them…bright…relaxed…and above all…fun…
the lilly pulitzer designs to me…scream summer…vibrant colors with unique combination…it started in 1959…at a family fruit stand in florida…lilly pulitzer was a society wife with too much time on her hands…she took to designing simple sleeveless shifts…with her dressmaker…from colorful flowered material and selling them alongside the grapefruits and oranges…a rage was born…lilly pulitzer’s wild floral prints defined the palm beach look of the 1960’s and have been collected for years by women all over…including the young jackie kennedy…after a hiatus during the 1980’s…lilly pulitzer dresses returned to the racks in the mid-nineties…in time to cash in on the latest celebration of fifties and sixties nostalgia…
I love summer! And it’s really the only time during the year that I wear COLOR!
to accent your white? right? =) your blog post on “white” made me smile when you said your color palette was black white & grey…glad you are adding some color!