I had one of those stupid frustrating telecommuting days last week wherein I couldn’t connect with my work computer…
and couldn’t connect with a person there who could re-connect my computer to me…
So I couldn’t work, but I had plans to work so that I’d have time later in the week to do some non-work work, and I really couldn’t stand not being able to get the work work over and was frustrated and pissy and feeling like I didn’t exist – a feeling probably common to telecommuters, but I don’t know any others so it might just be me, and there are times when in fact, I do not exist…
So I did something I hadn’t planned on doing any time soon to ease my unease.
I thrifted some comfy but insanely red linen pants last year, and though I like bold color, I have a few red t-shirts, many green t-shirts, and most often wear a pair of yellow sandals, so I either looked like a cardinal (bird), Christmas, or condiments if I wore any of them with the pants.
(And I don’t really like yellow mustard, especially next to ketchup).
I also had a sorry once lavender t-shirt, and a commercially sewn floral canvas bag that served its purpose at the time, but I never use anymore and keep almost getting rid of it…
I also have a few old boxes of that powdered dye knocking about, so I simmered the threesome in teal (which really was more turquoise).
I wanted the pants to be anything other than bright red, and was hoping for burgundy, purplish, brown, or some murkier variation thereof.
And now all is well, except for the bag – I’m really ready to get rid of it finally.
I know the dye won’t stick around forever, and I know well enough to only wash these things with darker things, but since the pants and shirt were already old, the dye should hopefully hold up for the rest of their lifespans, or else the yellow sandals might wear out by the time the pants become red again…
And it also became evident that the pant’s manufacturer made no effort to match the inside button to the outside and/or made the inside button match the outside, but the outside button an odd beige (now pleasingly turquoise) accent piece…?
Or perhaps the original owner replaced it…
Either way, now I’m either a giant gradient when wearing a red t-shirt, pleasantly almost-complementary when wearing green, and let’s just say I’m enjoying a robust red with something mustard-schmeared…
ASTITCHMATISM 