Well, it wasn’t much~
Posted: February 28, 2023 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: baking, BDSM, D/s, dievca, disappointment, elderly parents, Humor, Life, snow, submissive, Weather, Winter Leave a comment
The Snow wasn’t very impressive at 10 pm, last night.
dievca doesn’t think it will be a problem this morning on the bike…
Carrying the cake will be tricky.
(It was sweet to pull out Mom & Dad’s measuring spoons plus dievca realized that her mixer is 25 + years old and going strong)
5:20 am and beyond
Posted: February 8, 2023 Filed under: Body Type, Clothing, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, cooking, D/s, dievca, Life, pasta, practical, recipe, schedule, soup, submissive, swimming, Winter Leave a commentArrive at work – wearing this:
Midday – strip to this:
Head home to cook this:
one pot lasagna soup recipe
- 1 lb extra-lean ground beef
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- 1/2 tsp each salt & pepper
- 1 (650mL) jar marinara sauce
- 4 cups beef broth
- 10 uncooked lasagna noodles broken into approx. 1-2 inch pieces
- 1/2 cup ricotta cheese
- 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
- Fresh parsley or basil, for garnish
Stovetop instructions
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Sauté ground beef in a large pot over med-high heat until browned, about 5 minutes. Add onions and garlic, sautéing another 2-3 minutes until fragrant.
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Add remaining ingredients except for cheeses and fresh herbs, stirring to combine then bringing to a boil. Place lid on pot and simmer for 20 minutes until pasta is cooked through.
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Serve soup in large bowls, sprinkling mozzarella cheese overtop and topping with a dollop of ricotta. Garnish with fresh herbs if desired, then serve and enjoy!
Slow cooker instructions
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Brown the beef, onions and garlic in a large skillet over med-high heat for 5 minutes. Add to slow cooker, along with remaining ingredients except cheese. Cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 8 hours. Top with cheeses, then serve and enjoy!
Instant Pot instructions
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Brown the beef, onions and garlic using the sauté feature for 5 minutes. Add remaining ingredients, except for cheeses, pushing the pasta underneath the liquid. Cook on high pressure for 3 minutes, then do a quick release. Top bowls with cheeses, then serve and enjoy!
Wind on the Hill (or the 25th floor)
Posted: January 14, 2023 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Poetry | Tags: Alan Alexander Milne, BDSM, D/s, dievca, height, Life, poem, pondering, Weather, wind, Winter Leave a comment
No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.
It’s flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn’t keep up with it,
Not if I ran.
But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.
And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.
So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes…
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.
Alan Alexander Milne
Mysterious Mist – NYC
Posted: January 3, 2023 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, Chelsea, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Hudson River Greenway, Life, lovely, NYC, Photos, Weather, Winter Leave a comment
We do not have snow, but we do have interesting weather~
Click on the photos for more detail.
Photos: dievca Hudson River Walk NYC 12/2022
Winter Dawn – poem
Posted: January 2, 2023 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC), Poetry | Tags: BDSM, D/s, Dawn, dievca, Life, Love, Monday, Morning, NYC, peace, photo, poem, Sunrise, translation, Tu Fu, Winter 1 Comment
WINTER DAWN
The men and beasts of the zodiac
Have marched over us once more.
Green wine bottle and red lobster shells,
Both emptied, litter the table.
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot?” Each
Sits listening to his own thoughts,
And the sound of cars starting outside.
The birds in the eaves are restless,
Because of the noise and light. Soon now
In the winter dawn I will face
My fortieth year. Borne headlong
Towards the long shadows of sunset
By the headstrong, stubborn moments,
Life whirls past like drunken wildfire.
Translated from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth
Tu Fu (713-771) was the leading poet in the T’ung Dynasty of 8th century China. In this remarkable piece called “Winter Dawn,” he captures a moment of flashing epiphany with language, so simple, that speaks from another plain and another time, decades earlier, about the swift flood of life rushing by — as John Prine wrote, “like a broken-down dam.”
dievca believes that Mr. Rexford took liberties in the translation to draw the poem into the future – its still lovely.
Photo: dievca NYC dawn 01/2023
dievca’s ❤️goes out to Buffalo, NY – but
Posted: December 29, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, Christmas Wishes, Cold Weather, D/s, dievca, Lake Michigan, Life, Love, Midwest, snow, Winter Leave a comment
she’s really missing snow this winter in NYC…
Photo: dievca Lake MI
Winter Dawn
Posted: December 28, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, Chelsea, D/s, dievca, hope, Joy, Morning, NYC, photo, submissive, Sunrise, Winter Leave a comment
Photo: dievca 6:45 am 12/2022
Storm rolling in.
Posted: March 12, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Life, NYC, photo, Rain, snow, Storm, Winter Leave a comment
let’s just say I haven’t started…
Posted: February 26, 2022 Filed under: Disasters, Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: bad weather, BDSM, D/s, dievca, elderly parents, exhaustion, Family, Life, Midwest, travel, Winter Leave a comment
You name it for travel problems – they happened yesterday.
Ice, Snow, flights canceled, reroutings failed, no rental car.
Noon arrival ended up at 8 pm.
Attempting to start over this morning…
A squall~
Posted: February 20, 2022 Filed under: Clothing, Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, Cold Weather, D/s, definition, dievca, Life, NYC, practical, Uniqlo, Winter Leave a commentNYC had a Snow Squall yesterday.
What is a snow squall? According to the National Weather Service, a snow squall is “an intense short-lived burst of heavy snowfall that leads to a quick reduction in visibilities and is often accompanied by gusty winds.”
Why are they more dangerous than blizzards? Driving in a snow storm is difficult. Add in blowing wind and poor visibility, and travel can become downright dangerous. Driving in a snow squall is next to impossible.
The Squall was about 10 minutes long and dievca missed it all – she was working. But, she was dressed appropriately against the heavy winds for the bike ride to and from work (click on photos for details):
Can I just call it the Crabby (Hangry) Moon?
Posted: February 15, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, Cold Weather, crabby, D/s, dievca, February, Full Moon, Humor, Hunger, Life, snow, snow moon, Winter Leave a comment
February’s full moon is commonly referred to as the Snow Moon because the moth of February is often the snowiest month in the United States, as well as other parts of the northern hemisphere.
In the UK, the full moon will grace the skies at 4.56 pm on Wednesday 16 February. This will be 11:57 am EST – so the USA should look for the Moon set early tomorrrow morning or the Moonrise tonight or tomorrow.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) explained: “The Maine Farmer’s Almanac first published Indian names for the full moons in the 1930’s, and according to this almanac, this was known as the Snow moon because of the heavy snows that fall in this season.”
Traditionally, the February full moon was referred to as the Hunger Moon, because hunting was very difficult in snowy conditions and food scarcity was faced. Brutal weather conditions during February severely impacted the ability of Native American tribes to hunt.
Bone Moon was another reference, as there was typically a shortage of food, with people gnawing on bones and eating bone marrow soup to get by.
Let’s see ~ snow + cold + lack of food.
Sounds like someone is HANGRY at this point.
Time to change the name.
Photo: Andrew Mayovskyy/Shutterstock
A bit of a ‘whiteout’
Posted: January 29, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, Cold Weather, D/s, dievca, Life, Love, NYC, photo, snowstorm, submissive, Weather, Winter 1 Comment
Not as bad as Long Island or Boston – but blowing snow and drifting in NYC.
Photo: dievca NYC 01/2022
what’s under the Michelin Lady look…
Posted: January 27, 2022 Filed under: Clothing, lingerie | Tags: BDSM, Chantelle, Cold Weather, D/s, dievca, Humor, Life, Lingerie, submissive, Undergarments, Winter Leave a comment
Nothing Special – Just Practicalities
(Elegance will be worn tomorrow)
Chantelle Softstretch in Green
Feeling Fuzzy (in response to the wind)
Posted: January 21, 2022 Filed under: Clothing, Fashion | Tags: BDSM, Coats, Cold Weather, D/s, dievca, Fur, Life, Shopping, submissive, Warm, Winter 4 Comments
dievca sold her Faux Fur coats the other year and (of course!) shearling faux and real are back in Fashion.
Four Options (guess which one dievca is trying):
- Bottega Veneta Green Shearling Hooded Coat ($8900)
- Bottega Veneta Aqua Shearling Coat ($8900)
- Proenza Schouler White Label Green Faux Fur Wrap Coat ($895)
- Yves Salomon Blue Faux Fur Wool Mateo Button Down Coat (on sale $450)
If you guess the blue button down coat (Yves Salomon) you are correct. At 5″4′ and curvy – those wrap coats will overwhelm dievca’s frame – though she loves the look desperately… For dievca, wrap dresses and coats are like wearing yellow or raglan sleeves – just DON’T do it!
Blow, blow, thou winter wind…
Posted: January 20, 2022 Filed under: Home and Garden, Poetry | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, George Hunt, Life, NYC, Rain, Shakespeare, sleet, snow, Weather, Winter Leave a comment
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly…
Shit Weather in NYC – Rain, sleet , snow, wet pavements with potential to freeze.
Print: George Hunt, printmaker. c. 1825, London. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Poem/Song: William Shakespeare
Loving a Man in a cozy Sweater (Jumper)
Posted: January 9, 2022 Filed under: Clothing, Master | Tags: BDSM, Classic, Cold Weather, D/s, dievca, Handsome, Life, Love, Master, Shopping, submissive, sweaters, Winter Leave a comment
The Fair Isle
The Submariner
The Aran Sweater
The Cardigan
Classics for a reason and always as handsome as the Gentleman inside.
(Master prefers a Fairsisle Sweater Vest – makes His dievca smile)
Feeling the urge to ski~
Posted: January 8, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Musings, Vintage | Tags: BDSM, D/s, Desire, dievca, Life, Love, photo, retro, ski, snow, travel, Vacation, Winter Leave a comment
It seems like everyone dievca knows is skiing… In Upstate NY, a friend flew to Austria, another friend will be heading out to Tahoe, CA. How can dievca get on that train? She would really like to go to Banff or Whistler in Canada. Nah, probably not in the cards this year after that 3 week vacation out West.
But it would be really fun to go skiing!
Is anyone planning to ski any time soon?
Shovel the Snow
Posted: January 5, 2022 Filed under: Clothing, Entertainment, Home and Garden, Shoes | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, elderly parents, Humor, Life, Love, Midwest, Shopping, snow, travel, Wine, Winter 3 Comments
to get to the Laundrymat to clean towels, pads, and clothing because the wash machine went out….It’s been years since dievca has had to gather quarters for the machines.
dievca’s desperation of not initially recognizing a wine bottle shape in the bottom cupboard was a bit pathetic. The wine is a solid Malbec and a good way to end a day of chores.
Mom is good, dievca got her best – but she is fading. Mom is going to go down with dignity and a healthy splash of humor~
dievca absolutely loves that her Mom cannot remember that she broke her hip twice or what she ate, but she damn well knows that dievca brought her favorite chocolates and asks about dievca’s Apple Green Dries van Noten Platform Sandals. (Note: Mom is bed/wheelchair bound, but dievca has put all the shoes on her Mother’s feet – just to get the “look”.)
dievca schlepped two pair of kick a** boots for Mom to review, platform leather Chuck Taylors, a +J Uniqlo Mixed Knit Sweater a friend gave to her and the crazy print LA Double J reversible down coat. dievca’s Mom loved it all.
Chocolates and Fashion – there is some kind of philosophical “Meaning of Life” in those choices.
Holiday Hooch Coffee
Posted: December 20, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: Alcoholic Drink, BDSM, celebration, coffee, D/s, dievca, Dominant, Holiday 2021, Irish Coffee, Master, Monday, Whiskey, Winter 2 Commentsdievca is heading to Master’s for Christmas Eve, as He just got back from Ireland – she knows He brought home some hooch…
OK, maybe we shouldn’t be using the word “hooch” (noun – informal)
-
alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whiskey.
Irish Coffee is a cocktail consisting of hot coffee, Irish whiskey (excellent), and sugar, stirred, and topped with cream. The coffee is drunk through the cream. The original Irish Coffee was created by an airport chef named Joe Sheridandievca, who worked at the little Foynes airport near Limerick, according to the Ireland Whiskey Trail. He whipped it up one rainy winter night for passengers whose plane got turned around due to a storm. He later moved to the Shannon Airport, and took the drink with him.
(Note: In 19th-century France, a mixture of coffee and spirits was called a gloria.)
Main alcohol: Irish whiskey
Ingredients: 1 1/3 oz (2 parts) Irish whiskey, 1 oz (1½ parts) Fresh cream, 1 tsp. Brown sugar, 2 2/3 oz (4 parts) Hot coffee
Preparation: Heat the coffee, whiskey and sugar; do not boil. Pour into glass and top with cream by carefully pouring it over the back of a spoon initially held just above the surface of the coffee and gradually raised a little until the entire layer is floated.
Served: Hot
Drinkware: Irish coffee mug
Inventor: Joe Sheridan
Buy? or DIY? Tabletop Fireplace
Posted: December 15, 2021 Filed under: Accessories, Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Elegant, fire, Home Decor, Life, Love, Shopping, Winter Leave a commentHave you seen the Tabletop Fireplaces?
- Offers all the benefits of a regular sized fireplace in a compact, portable design
- Suitable for indoor or outdoor use
- Utilizes isopropyl alcohol for a clean burn that doesn’t create soot and is safe to eat over
- Built from a nearly magical cement material that doesn’t overheat or crumble after hours of exposure to heat
- With only five ounces of isopropyl alcohol, you can achieve 50 minutes of burn time
- Excellent accent piece in the home to add functional ambiance
- The FLIKR Personal Fireplace is $99
You can also build your own DIY tabletop Fireplace:
An ethanol fireplace (also bio-ethanol fireplace, bio fireplace), is a type of fireplace which burns ethanol fuel. They are often installed without a chimney. Ethanol for these fires is often marketed as bioethanol (ethanol produced from biomass).
A simple glass ethanol burner or spirit lamp The main part of the fireplace is the burner. The burner is a container filled with fuel – in this case a thick glass votive. It is surrounded by glass marbles and glass pieces held in a concrete container.
In dievca’s case: she doesn’t have a car, so getting to a Wal-Mart or Michael’s for the pieces is awkward. If you have a car – the process will be much easier and cheaper to make the fireplace, rather than purchasing one online.
BTW: Ethanol fireplaces should be operated with care, since ethanol is highly flammable, and severe burn accidents can happen, mostly while refilling or lighting the fireplace, even when safety instructions are followed. Emissions from ethanol fireplaces include carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide, volatile organic compounds, and particulate emissions, which are released into the room.
Ethanol fireplaces — irrespective of the type of fuel used — are a source of fine and ultrafine particles and have a considerable influence on the quality of the indoor air; ventilation reduces the effect. Ethanol may also generate odors. Burning hydrocarbons causes indoor air pollution. Emissions include airborne particulate matter (such as black carbon) and nitrogen oxides. These harm health; some forms of fuel are more harmful than others.
Skating (reprise)
Posted: December 4, 2021 Filed under: Poetry | Tags: BDSM, Cold Weather, D/s, dievca, elegance, Holiday 2021, Ice Skating, Life, William Wordsworth, Winter 2 Comments
—IN the frosty season, when the sun
Was set, and, visible for many a mile,
The cottage windows through the twilight blazed,
I heeded not the summons: happy time
It was indeed for all of us; for me
It was a time of rapture. Clear and loud
The village clock tolled six. I wheel’d about,
Proud and exulting, like an untired horse
That cares not for its home. All shod with steel,
We hiss’d along the polish’d ice in games
Confederate, imitative of the chase
And woodland pleasures,—the resounding horn,
The pack loud-bellowing, and the hunted hare.
So through the darkness and the cold we flew,
And not a voice was idle: with the din
Meanwhile the precipices rang aloud;
The leafless trees and every icy crag
Tingled like iron; while the distant hills
Into the tumult sent an alien sound
Of melancholy, not unnoticed, while the stars,
Eastward, were sparkling clear, and in the west
The orange sky of evening died away.
Not seldom from the uproar I retired
Into a silent bay, or sportively
Glanced sideway, leaving the tumultuous throng,
To cut across the image of a star
That gleam’d upon the ice; and oftentimes,
When we had given our bodies to the wind,
And all the shadowy banks on either side
Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still
The rapid line of motion, then at once
Have I, reclining back upon my heels,
Stopp’d short; yet still the solitary cliffs
Wheel’d by me, even as if the earth had roll’d
With visible motion her diurnal round.
Behind me did they stretch in solemn train,
Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch’d
Till all was tranquil as a summer sea.
By William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
Insert a little humor into your lingerie closet – Foxy Lady
Posted: November 11, 2021 Filed under: lingerie | Tags: BDSM, bikini, Cold Weather, Color, dievca, erotic, Fur, Humor, Presentation Outfits, Sexy, Shopping, Silly, submissive, Undergarments, Winter Leave a comment
Fox Fur Bikini Lingerie available on eBay.
Red, Light Blue, Lake Blue, Pink, Hot Pink, Grass Green, Black
$71.99
Conservation of Energy
Posted: October 8, 2021 Filed under: Analysis, submissive | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Elegant, End of Summer, erotic, Life, nude, physics, Weather, Winter Leave a comment
The last rays of summer touch my body – casting a golden glow over my skin.
Can I carry that absorbed energy within throughout the winter?
Or will it dissipate with the first snow?
Photo: John Everard 1940
A Coffee Cup for Friends~
Posted: February 8, 2021 Filed under: Accessories, Clothing, Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, coffee, D/s, dievca, fashion, Humor, Life, Monday, Morning, snow, Winter Leave a comment
New York Snowstorm by Karl Stevens Coffee Mug (click photo to purchase)
dievca still loves her snow. XO
“Where does an 800-pound gorilla sit?” [“Anywhere it wants to.”]
Posted: February 7, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: art, awareness, BDSM, Chelsea, D/s, dievca, Hudson Yards, NYC, photo, sculpture, submissive, Winter Leave a comment
Photo: dievca Hudson Yards NYC 02/2021
To raise awareness and funds for the critically endangered gorilla species, public artists Gillie and Marc Schattner have created a massive sculpture of the animal that arrived in Hudson Yards’ Bella Abzug Park. Titled King Nyani, Swahili for ‘gorilla’, it’s the world’s largest bronze gorilla sculpture and can fit two to three humans just in its hands.
Hazards of the Concrete Jungle
Posted: February 5, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Humor, Life, NYC, photo, rat, snow, submissive, Winter 2 Comments
The Groundhog isn’t going to see his shadow – but just incase…
Posted: February 2, 2021 Filed under: Clothing | Tags: BDSM, Cold Weather, cosy, D/s, dievca, fashion, Life, NYC, Shopping, submissive, sweater, Winter Leave a comment
Patagonia Recycled Cashmere on Sale – Originally $249
Recycled Cashmere Turtleneck features yarn that’s made from preconsumer cashmere waste that’s sorted, mechanically broken down, and spun into new yarn.
- Feather Grey
- Century Pink
- Topsoil Brown
- Birch White
- All are $174 except for the Birch White, its $124
It’s a Whiteout!
Posted: February 1, 2021 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, dievca, Humor, Life, Love, NYC, photo, snow, submissive, Weather, Winter Leave a comment
Whiteout, white-out, or milky weather is a weather condition in which the contours and landmarks in a snow-covered zone become almost indistinguishable.
Sleepy on a Snowy Morning!
Posted: February 1, 2021 Filed under: Body Type, Entertainment, Home and Garden, Vintage | Tags: 1950's Household Kink, BDSM, coffee, D/s, dievca, Duane Bryers, erotic, Fetish, Humor, Life, Love, Monday, Morning, Pin Up Girl, snowstorm, submissive, Winter Leave a comment
Stay warm and have a coffee for dievca and Hilda. XO
Preparing for February – the Color Purple
Posted: January 30, 2021 Filed under: Accessories, Clothing, Discussion | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, fashion, February, Life, Presentation Outfits, Purple, Royal, Shopping, submissive, Winter Leave a commentThe month of February is all about the color purple, with the birthstone being amethyst, and the flower a violet. But did you know that this color has a very rich and interesting history as to how it came to be such a popular color today?
One reason why it is such a prominent color in today’s society is that people of royal blood and power used to be the only ones who would be able to afford to wear it. From the dying process to the wardrobe, this beautiful color has had a role in society from royal representation, spiritual symbolism, and a wide effect on the world of current fashion trends.
EARLY PRODUCTION AND TRADE OF PURPLE DYE
You might guess that purple dye used to be made from natural plants and herbs such as lilac and lavender flowers, or berries such as grapes. Nope. It might seem a bit strange and gruesome, but during the ancient Greek era around 1,200 BC, purple dye was created by extracting it from sea snails—spiny dye-murex to be specific–and it took thousands of these little guys (supposedly 250,000 just for one ounce!) to dye different types of textiles. Instead of crushing and killing the snails to extract the purple dye, it could be collected by “milking” them. Then the dye would be put out in the sunlight to develop its hue—the longer the dye sat out in the sunlight, the more intense the purple shade. Because of the high labor cost of making such beautiful textiles in ancient Greece, the only people who would be seen wearing them would be royals, priests, and nobles.
ROMAN INFLUENCE
Greeks were not the only ones to begin wearing the color purple as a symbol of high societal rank. In ancient Rome, emperors and priests would wear colored textiles of a darker shade of purple that had been mixed with indigo. Roman Catholic priests, especially those that are ranked as Bishops, still wear purple as a representation of piety, penitence, and faith. Priests will wear this color during Lent and when they listen to confessions. Different rankings wore different shades of purple or were coordinated with gold details or bands.
ROYAL PURPLE IN THE PALACE
More recently during the 18th and 19th centuries, rulers such as Catherine the Great continued to uphold the tradition of wearing the color purple to symbolize her royal status as Empress of Russia. Queen Victoria of Great Britain wore a mauve gown to the Royal Exhibition of 1862, a particular shade of purple that only royalty or upper society could afford to purchase. The British Royal Family is known to wear purple for special occasions and at ceremonies because it is made with purple velvet textiles and encrusted with amethyst gemstones.
THE WORLD OF FASHION
Today, the shades of purple are more popular than ever; Pantone named the color of the year for 2014 as Radiant Orchid, and Violet Tulip. Cherished for centuries, this color is not going out of style anytime soon.
Thanks to textile and dye advancements, purple clothing items can be found pretty much everywhere. Still representing royalty, religion, and symbols, you can add purple to your life any day of the week. Being that it is February and the birthstone for this month is the amethyst gemstone.
dievca 