# Fragrance floating

By [cola](https://paragraph.com/@cola-4) · 2022-10-08

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It is autumn, and there is an occasional gust of wind at night. I don't know which nerve has been touched. I can't wait for dawn, and I desperately want to buy a solid-colored shirt. White, beige, pale pink, navy blue, pure cotton or linen, with a silk skirt. I'm afraid I'm a little nostalgic, the memory of girls in tradition. I told my daughter that in the 80s, girls dressed like this. Daughter said: "Mom, you are really fashionable. There is a British brand called Margaret Howell, and that's what it tastes like." At that time, the shirt was cut simply, except for a few white buttons , without any decorations. Paired with trousers or an ankle-length pleated skirt, a teenage girl with a pink face is elegant and natural. Of course, over the years, saying "natural generosity" is mostly subjective, or it may be ambitious, just as Lu Xun described Shanghai fashionable girls: "Any fashionable woman shows an air of ostentation, but also insists. In Luozhi, she is also resisting, like all relatives of the opposite sex, and like all enemies of the opposite sex, she is liking it, and she is also angry." Hehe, maybe that's what it means, who knows! At that time, it was not a rare solid color, but a lack of color. An entire cloth counter, only a few pieces of stupid material, the color is single. I don't remember who started it, but I embroidered a flower on the collar and cuff of my shirt. It was also plain, with plum blossoms and chrysanthemums. Without peony, it was classified as vulgar at that time because of its popularity. These small flowers, like a strand of hair floating out of a silk scarf, suddenly became a lot more playful, and they have the artistic conception of sparse shadows and sloping shadows and subtle fragrances in Tang poetry and Song poetry.

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