A Red Dress Day

Why A Red Dress Day

When I was growing up we were poor and we were often given things to wear. My sister and I were very much the same size, she being dark haired looked best in red and I being blond looked best in blue, so I seldom got anything red. However, I did inherit one red outfit during high school. My sister and I took Home Economics. We had to sew something in a wool fabric. My sister worked on a red wool and I had a steel blue wool. My sister took many more stitches out then she put in. She was so tired of the red suit when she finished she only wore it once and that was to be graded. Finally, she gave it to me. I wore it and liked it. The only other red things that I had were a scarf or blouse now and then. That came about when I was cheerleading advisor when I taught school in a school with one of its colors being red. Actually, I didn’t feel all that comfortable in red, I always felt irritated so I just stuck to my blues most of the time. Well, in later years I was tested for allergies and sure enough, yellow was off the chart, green and orange not too good for me either and red also gave me a little problem. So now, I know why I stick to tan, brown, blue and black .

I have a jumper pattern that I like very much and I have made, you guessed it a tan jumper, brown jumper, blue jumper and black jumper from the same pattern with a slight variation over the years. When shopping a couple years ago for another tan piece of material to go with a nice brown jacket, the tan was out of stock. I saw this red, which I just couldn’t live without and bought it on a whim. It laid on the sewing machine for over a year. Finally, I had a reason to sew it. My cousin said a group of ladies were going to wear red on Fridays until all the young men and women were home from the war. I thought perfect, so I sewed my piece of red fabric into a nice jumper. Yes, you guessed it, my favorite jumper pattern. Now every Friday, I wear the red jumper. It never fails that I get some sort of comment such as, “Why the red dress today?” It gives me an opportunity to say I’m wearing red on Fridays in protest of the war. Not a single Friday has gone by that I haven’t gotten some sort of comment. I only wish President Bush could see me wearing a red jumper in a non-violent protest to his war. So gals join me, pull out your red dresses and guys, I bet you have a red shirt some place in the closet, join me in protest.