Seeing I am decorated in festive colours, I felt it appropriate to cast this outfit on the backdrop of our merry home. I hadn't intended to coincide the colours of my outfit with the holiday season, but I have been known to enjoy finding reasons to match my attire to a season or holiday in the past, and, I especially love dressing in costume.
As we are less than 2 days away from December, most are starting to embrace the arrival of the Christmas season.
Many big corporation and/or department stores politely allow Hallowe'en to pass before unveiling their Christmas 'look' for the year. In my corner of the world, Costco decided to break that trend this year, and apparently set up their Christmas garb in October! In addition, Shoppers Drug Mart started playing Christmas music in early November, but due to large volumes of complaints, they obliged with customers' disdain for the premature instrumental sashay into the season.
This begs the question, When is too early to delve into the Christmas season? Present culture usually welcomes the season with lucrative motives. At the same time, when chatting with friends, I've learned that many of them embrace the season quite early in November by choice, not corporate influence. Their underlying reasons are simply "I love Christmas," and "Let's celebrate for as long as possible."
When I started this post, I originally set out to determine why red and green are Christmas colours. (I eventually answered that question..perhaps another post now though!) As internet surfing often spiderwebs (no pun intended), this lead to reading about the original pagan germanic Yule festival (which was eventually absorbed by Christmas). It was a 12 day festival, thus our modern 12 days of Christmas. Yuletide refers to the time between December 24, and January 6. There were even specific terms used for the month before Yule and the month after Yule. We just call November 'November', and January 'January'; it'd be like November being called "Before Christmas" and January "After Christmas," if you follow my drift. This may not quite be etymologically accurate, but it tells me that its a time of year that has been enthusiastically embraced for extended periods of time for centuries upon centuries. And since people seem to be in happier spirits during this time, perhaps its not so precocious to start celebrating as early as November 1st after all.
What do you think?
Outfit details: jacket Holster, jeans Le Chateau, shirt Giant Tiger, scarf Winners, clogs by Dansko, earrings Hand crafted (I don't recall the artisan's name, unfortunately)
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