The correlation is 100% and that is for the obvious, simple reason that the book works.Ĭhanged my life? Only a teensy bit, really. Every time, however, she sees me in something I shouldn't be wearing, something that breaks my season colours, she scolds me. Genia is a Siberian who has never heard of Colour Me Beautiful. I know when I'm knitting it that I shouldn't be. Every now and then I knit something in a colour I shouldn't wear. Nothing brings that home to me like thinking of Genia. The book may have been a simplistic generalisation, but gee it was good, the core of it. To have some explanation of this was a liberating experience, as knowledge so often is. Without knowing the science of it, I am aware that some colours make me feel good and some colours make me feel bad. Mary-Anne used to buy ever copy she could find to give all her friends: it is how I got my copy.Ĭolour affects my mood and needless to say, the colour I carry around on me all day is going to have that effect. These days you'd say it went viral, I guess. If it wasn't the first book to talk about this, it was at least the first to make the ideas accessible to the world at large. If she judged this book by its cover, or by the photos in it, she would have put it back on the shelf and wiped her hands afterwards. You go to her house and she will show you things of glory she has made, the glory of which is embedded in the colours. I was introduced to this book by an artist, as it happens, a strong-willed person, if ever there was one, who has always led her own life. None of them are conned into the stuff they do. The women I know who wear makeup, get their bodies changed, spend fortunes on perfume (and a gadzillion other things I disapprove of) are scientists and doctors and teachers and lawyers and politicians and diplomats and options traders and world champions of this or that. Not only that, it has become a capitalist industry propagating via the Internet, a rather ironic development since part of the original message was to spend less.īut one of the commentators on the dissing thread caught my attention for his rather patronising attitude that it was a cheap con to get the gullible. I didn't say hideous makeup because it would be redundant. In this case, awful, AWFUL pictures of middle American women wearing hideous clothes, hideous hair and makeup. This book is of the recent past period that people always spurn the most viciously. Recently a thread of Clever Cool Types on Goodreads were dissing this, which made me think about it some more.
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