If I were to name two most precious pieces of clothing in my possession I'd probably say 1)a faded Southpark character printed pajama over a decade old that I wear at nights 2) a red stole that's been in my possession for almost 12 years and never leaves my bag.
Your handkerchief is my stole.
much like how a 'towel' is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have..
-a stole is by far the most important thing a woman of the world must possess.
Apart from the fact that it can be used in just about any situation from covering your head on a bad hair day to your face on an acne besieged day- one can and I have used it as a makeshift blanket, as a curtain to shield my friend from prying eyes who changed clothes on a beach, as a sarong, a wrap around skirt, a tie around top..it's a second skin and so much do I use it and whip it out that my friend actually dubbed it "useful" and has since bought some "usefuls" of her own.
Do I leave my house without a stole? No, absolutely not!
I do have over a dozen stoles of different varieties and materials.
From basic cotton ones to delicately crafted hand painted silk ones but the one I dearly love and keep with me at all times as I mentioned above is a red cotton mixed one.
It's red, at least used to be until it found itself another tone of madder hue from washing and being used so often and to this day hasn't lost its fabric softness and not a speck of anything frayed about it.
My mother would argue, for she once tried to replace it with another silken strumpet, but I had none of it and though at times when occasions demand I go with a different stole preferably to match, but, if ever I go on a trip or anything miscellaneous I'm never without my red darling.
More than anything I love how it smells and all these years of washing, ironing, and folding have done nothing to replace the perfumed bouquet that lingers about it like a halo, which is actually an amalgamation of all the different perfumes I've carried in bags that the stole has found itself in-
For weeks together it would stay in a bag that I've not been using along with a small vial of perfume also in that bag (I have small vials of perfume in every bag and lip balms too) and faintly be redolent of that particular scent until it's in another etc.
A stole is definitely one of those great imperatives in every woman's bag..a fabric of most essential meaning..especially during times when the day goes about undecidedly.
Your handkerchief is my stole.
much like how a 'towel' is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have..
-a stole is by far the most important thing a woman of the world must possess.
Apart from the fact that it can be used in just about any situation from covering your head on a bad hair day to your face on an acne besieged day- one can and I have used it as a makeshift blanket, as a curtain to shield my friend from prying eyes who changed clothes on a beach, as a sarong, a wrap around skirt, a tie around top..it's a second skin and so much do I use it and whip it out that my friend actually dubbed it "useful" and has since bought some "usefuls" of her own.
Do I leave my house without a stole? No, absolutely not!
I do have over a dozen stoles of different varieties and materials.
From basic cotton ones to delicately crafted hand painted silk ones but the one I dearly love and keep with me at all times as I mentioned above is a red cotton mixed one.
It's red, at least used to be until it found itself another tone of madder hue from washing and being used so often and to this day hasn't lost its fabric softness and not a speck of anything frayed about it.
My mother would argue, for she once tried to replace it with another silken strumpet, but I had none of it and though at times when occasions demand I go with a different stole preferably to match, but, if ever I go on a trip or anything miscellaneous I'm never without my red darling.
More than anything I love how it smells and all these years of washing, ironing, and folding have done nothing to replace the perfumed bouquet that lingers about it like a halo, which is actually an amalgamation of all the different perfumes I've carried in bags that the stole has found itself in-
For weeks together it would stay in a bag that I've not been using along with a small vial of perfume also in that bag (I have small vials of perfume in every bag and lip balms too) and faintly be redolent of that particular scent until it's in another etc.
A stole is definitely one of those great imperatives in every woman's bag..a fabric of most essential meaning..especially during times when the day goes about undecidedly.
