Flickr Favourites: May 17, 2015

{WW2 ... "Lend a Hand!" ~ James Vaughan}


{Blue Telephone Woman ~ Salty Cotton}


{Lauren 2011 ~ Bliss Braoudakis}


{Cute and stripey ~ James Vaughan}


{The 1950s-blue blouson jacket ~ April-Mo}


{Eye on Cat Toy ~ http://bit.ly/1GM6Pfx}


{1940s or 1950s handsome guy with great car ~ Sundogrr}


{Advance 2315 ~ Sandra Perkins}


{Apricot morning ~ Julia Khusainova}


{June, 1932 Ladies' Home Journal ~ Genibee}  

{All images above are from Flickr. To learn more about a specific image, please click on its title to be taken to its respective Flickr page.} 

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Though I dubbed brown my colour of the year for 2015, and it certainly is, if it had a running mate, that title would most definitely go to blue. Specifically light/baby and sky blue. Long (okay, at least a little while :)) before they became hot hues of the moment (in no small part due to Pantone's vote of approval this season), they enraptured me with their playful elegance and feel-good lightness of being during the dark, snow capped days of winter.

By spring proper, it really was the main colour that I was thinking about. Though I don't own a lot in my wardrobe (a slightly-too-large 1950s wiggle skirt and a vintage appropriate modern cardigan are the biggies), I'm striving to find more pieces this year and beyond in this classic, upbeat shade. I love that it works wonders all spring and summer long. If one desires, it can come out to play amongst some of fall's darker hues, such as cocoa brown and stormy sky grey, as well, and naturally works a treat (to borrow one of my favourite British terms) in the chilly days of winter, where it is often partnered with white and used to represent snow, ice and the very nippy temperature itself.

To help inspire me on my quest for more baby blue, I wanted to shine the spotlight on it in this month's edition of Flickr Favourites, along with some of the other shades that it plays so wonderfully with.

Colours may come and go in vogue, but they virtually never vanish entirely. They're always around us in one capacity or another, and light blue is certainly no exception. It can be the sky we gaze upon, the hue used to celebrate the birth of a baby boy, the shade that water is depicted as in countless works of art, the tinge an iceberg takes on when floating in the bone chillingly cold sea, the colour of an Easter egg, and scores of other elements of our world, each beautiful and timeless unto itself.

I love soft blue and have no doubt that my renewed passion for it will turn into a longstanding romance of sartorial sort in large measure, but certainly in general as well. Were the springtime breeze a hue, I can't help but feel like it would be baby blue and so with that thought in mind, I'm heading outdoors today to soak up the gloriousness of mid-May, bop around town, and who knows, perhaps even chance upon a sky toned treasure in the process.

Have a beautiful and thoroughly happy Sunday, my lovely friends!