The Trouble With Red

I wrote an article for the Financial Times about the difficulty of wearing red around the holidays and really any time of year. It's a spotlight-grabbing color. It's sexy and powerful, and happens to look great on most people. (Just find the right hue.) The trouble is, you have to be careful when you where it and where, as the following anecdote illustrates:

A woman wore a brand new, bright red cocktail dress to a friend’s book launch party. Her husband and nanny complimented her on her way out of the house, and she arrived at the event feeling confident and pretty. It was only when the author greeted her with a tight smile and the words, “That’s right, you like red,” that the woman realised her mistake. Now, she cringes when she recalls the evening and that thunder-stealing dress. “It was as if I had worn white lace to a wedding,” she says.

Guess who the lady in red was that evening?

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