T.G.I.G.F.

This past week or two I kept reading everywhere about inspiring fashion for Easter: pretty spring pastels – pink, green, primrose. All the fashion magazines were ecstatic. Newsflash: it’s autumn in the southern hemisphere.

What do you wear in autumn for Easter, I wondered? I could find nothing online. Apparently, you don’t wear anything special Downunder. I asked quite a few friends, and most disclaimed any interest, or indeed knowledge of specific Easter fashions, apart from Easter bonnets (which is originally an American tradition anyway).

I don’t particularly like pastels however, at least not on myself. I find pastel coloured clothing a little insipid, a little wishy-washy.

And then I had a Easter flavoured eureka moment. Chocolate!

The obvious solution is to wear autumnal colours, but they don’t seem particularly Easterish. The holiday has become inexorably and inextricably intertwined with spring.

And then I had a Easter flavoured eureka moment. Chocolate! And, Cadbury’s! I don’t actually eat Cadbury's chocolate (too much sugar for my liking) and of the supermarket brands, prefer New Zealand’s Whittaker’s Chocolates. But there was something in this … chocolate brown, royal purple and gold. I liked it. I don’t normally gravitate towards brown, but when it comes in liquid satin and metallic copper wrapped in a vintage Edwardian purple and white striped taffeta ribbon, I’m down with it.

And, however you celebrate Easter, Thank God it’s Good Friday, eh?