Women want any color - as long as it's black!

Any funerals on your agenda?

Henry Ford, the automotive magnate, sure started a trend all those years ago.

Ford used to tell his customers, in the early days of the automobile: "You can have one in any color - as long as it's black!"

Seems the trend stuck. In spite of the fact color is back for spring and color blocking is the big trend,  women today want clothes in any color - as long as it's black.

Golly! A smidgen of color!

Recently, I sauntered around a department store, to see what was on offer. Before entering the department store, I also glanced in the various smaller bourtiques at the mall. In all cases, I found the same story...

Women want any color - as long as it's black!

I can't help thinking how dull this makes everyone look. It's as if they all lay down on the road when the asphalt is being put down and then all got up tarred the exact same way.

Seek and ye shall find - a colored dress!

It also suggests the edicts of a century ago when, as soon as anyone in your family died, custom dictated you wore black -sometimes for years at a stretch - are still in force. Hmmm... perhaps today's ladies aren't very liberated?




In contrast, look at the lovely colors we offered at our recent trunk show. At Harobed Designs, we think everyone looks better in color so we will continue to design in color. (After all, our mandate is to clothe the few not the many.)

Blues..yellows...pinks...reds...greens... and more!

Why not make this the spring you ditch the mourning clothes and sally forth with a splash of color?

Copyright Deborah C. Sawyer