Your Highness

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Pagan priestesses, beautiful virgins, ancient heroes - they all wore white, and this is no coincidence. Everything that they had in abundance could be shown to the public with one wave of a pure white sleeve: power, dignity, moral endurance and faith in the best.

White color is still a sign of good luck: you got out of the mud, you succeeded, you don't have a speck of dust on you. This cloudy shade is a symbol of the holiday. While people who are forced to fight for survival hide their bodies under gray and black, cheerful people choose light-colored fabrics. They want to live not just beautifully, but light. Because it's positive. For enlightenment to come in your life, it is small enough.

White dress

The attribute of registry offices and hospital wards can turn into a chic outfit if you sew a thing from a satin shade of baked milk. Such dresses - narrow, flowing, to the floor - were worn by glamorous film stars of the 30s of the last century. A languid Marlene Dietrich dropped cigar ash on a silk hem, badass Jean Harlow fluffed up chiffon skirts, and cold Greta Garbo wrapped herself in a fox coat. First-class women, first-class color. Not a color, but a solid privilege.

White gold

The obstinate pre-Christian beauties adorned their necks with pearls and mother-of-pearl, in order to show the gentlemen with all their appearance that they know their worth. Nowadays, expensive pearls are easily replaced by white gold jewelry. To add a cool sparkle, white gold rings and earrings are plated with rhodium, a milky-blue metal. Another couple of blue sapphires or diamonds - and the frame is ready for the worthy one.

White powder

Ancient Egyptians pounded chalk, shells and rice grains, which were expensive at that time, in mortars. Russian beauties at the risk of their lives rubbed themselves with harmful white lead. Now, tormenting your hair with flour, like the Marquise Pompadour, is not necessary, but you still need to powder your face. It is no longer accepted to be too tanned, and the pale skin of a beach dweller sitting under a wide umbrella is now a special chic. After bathing, you can no longer powder yourself: whitish sea salt will appear on the chest and legs.

White salt

Sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium - in essence, sea salt is nothing more than chemistry for the eighth grade. And it feels like a paradise for ladies of different ages. Entrepreneurs can make their dreams come true: lie on the salty shores of the famous Dead Sea. It is unlikely that it will be possible to arrange the same snow-white expanses of the house in the bathroom: the salt melts in hot water, and the color of the purchased one is usually vigorous, sometimes pink, sometimes blue, sometimes all colors of the rainbow.

White hair

Blond hair is, strictly speaking, a mutation. Long ago, all people had dark blond curls and dark eyes, but some northern peoples, due to poor nutrition and nervous work on the extraction of mammoths, lightened. Scientists claim that the gene for blonde hair appeared in girls for competitiveness: blondes, as the most noticeable in a dense prehistoric forest, were preferred by primitive gentlemen. The blonde wife was a symbol of her master's prestige. What can we say about modern hunters-ladies' men, making their way through the urban jungle in search of prey!

White lace

To look like a boyarina in Vologda lace is just as nice as a schoolgirl in a white lace collar. True, the first snow-white weaving gives the article, and the second - innocence. Russian craftswomen began to weave pearl threads as early as the 13th century (the first mention of lace is contained in the famous Ipatiev Chronicle), and in Europe the boom came in the 16th century. Flemish products were so popular that for a skein of thin lace, unkind people could rob, kill and go to the gallows with their heads held high.

White chocolate

Actually, it is not even chocolate: there is no trace of the necessary cocoa powder in the composition. Only milk powder and cocoa butter (colorless and almost tasteless substance). But yellowish bars with the taste of condensed milk are shown to those with a sweet tooth who are allergic to bitter chocolate. Eating white chocolate candies is not so bad for your figure and extremely delicious.

White ball

Fashionable sports are always white. Tennis players in starched skirts, golfers in snow-white leggings and jackets, captains of racing yachts in blue and white, and the very attributes of the competition, from balls to boats, all of the same solemn, prestigious color. For those who can afford to put on fresh trousers for only one game and after finding a microscopic speck, throw it away.

White bone

Wearing ivory jewelry requires special courage and delicate taste. Heavy necklaces with carvings of macaques, a gypsy skirt and a three-wrap shawl would create a fine piece of grandma style. But for the style of "life in white" this is not suitable. It is correct to beg for grandmother's bracelets, brought by a diplomat grandfather from India in the 1970s, and hand them over to a jeweler in order to make graceful cameos with your profile from a coarse piece of tusk (as a keepsake) and thin rings for a linen beach dress.

White boat

The standard set of dreamers includes not only princes and villas, but also vehicles, mostly white: horses, carriages, foreign cars. And, of course, a snow-white yacht. Such a beauty costs from 500 thousand dollars, so the less whimsical agree on a boat. In Soviet times, the sons of party workers attended motor-water clubs, where they drove along the local rivers on Sokol boats. Now in fashion "Bayliners", sailor suits a la "heir to the Russian empire" and on board - quivering young ladies in white veils.

Polar bear

Gypsies led brown bears on a chain, grimy and tattered, while white individuals from time immemorial spread carpets under the feet of especially wealthy persons. Having a polar bear skin in the fireplace living room is a special hunting achievement, if you remember how difficult and impassable the roads were then to Siberia or Arkhangelsk. Now a luxurious rug made of real potapych is an even rarer thing: the polar bear is listed in the Red Book of Russia. But stylization under a bear also costs a lot.

Andrey Bely

A truly cultured young lady will not walk with Candice Bushnell under her arm. The lyrics of the Hellenic poets are also, perhaps, too much. On the other hand, Andrei Bely, a writer of the early 20th century, a mystic and an innovator, is in the subject. The author of the strange novel "Petersburg" dreamed of revolution and dreamed of the triumph of justice in the whole wide world. Let the old go away forever, and life begin with a clean slate. Hence the pseudonym of the writer (in the world of Boris Bugaev) - new, unblemished. As, by the way, and your life, if you stop seeing everything in black.