I have a true love story for you today. It\u2019s about my sweetheart, Gary. Of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four or five years ago, I bought a silk blouse at a consignment shop. It\u2019s so pretty, dark purple, long sleeves, tailored lines, soft as, well, silk. When I wear it, I feel \u2026 thin, smart, together. Everyone needs a shirt that does that, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gary said to me a few months ago, \u201cYou should get another one of those.\u201d Its style is classic, but it\u2019s also not this year\u2019s model. Or last year\u2019s. In fact, I have no idea how many years its original owner wore it before consigning it at the shop. \u201cI really can\u2019t,\u201d I said, after trolling e-Bay and ThredUp and generalized Google looking for its twin by label. Nada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s where the love story starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unbeknownst to me, Gary ordered yards of un-dyed silk from China. He also ordered a kit for dyeing fabric. (Special dye, for animal products like wool and silk, not cotton or synthetics.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also procured one of those color swatch wheels, featuring only colors that go with my skin tone. (He says I\u2019m a cool summer, I think?) He let me pick my favorites, then he researched how many granules of dye powder would be needed to create those colors, weighed them on a ridiculously accurate scale, and made vats of dye in my big ol\u2019 ceramic canning pot, into which he dipped swaths of beautiful silk. He ended up with five different colors: navy, ice blue, gray, magenta, and aqua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
THEN, during a trip to India, he located a tailor. He gave the tailor my favorite blouse and asked him to make five more just like it. He brought them home to me on Tuesday.Oh, my goodness. They are like butter! That tailor was magical. These blouses fit just right, and are so pretty and perfect. I can\u2019t believe how classy and amazing I feel in them. Yes, they still smell like the tailor shop in India, but I\u2019m telling you, this week, that is also the scent of true love. \n\n<\/p>\n\n
I have a true love story for you today. It\u2019s about my sweetheart, Gary. Of course. Four or five years ago, I bought a silk blouse at a consignment shop. It\u2019s so pretty, dark purple, long sleeves, tailored lines, soft as, well, silk. When I wear it, I feel \u2026 thin, smart, together. Everyone needs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OUjT-y9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}