For Real Toads: Ella's fashion challenge

My friend Ella, a self-described Ninja Stylist (I love that idea, it terrifies me, but I love it) quoted Coco Chanel to the online writers' group Imaginary Garden with Real Toads and challenged us to write a poem on one of the many aspects of fashion as we see it.
"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." Coco Chanel
(Do check out Ella's explanation of Ninja Stylist on the Real Toads page.)
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It's been a while since I've felt up to posting anything, for Real Toads, or for one of my favorite memes, but just this evening I've started to feel a tiny bit better. I could venture the suggestion that Diet Coke cures colds, but I've had this cold for a week, so I suspect that instead it might just be running its course. I hope.
Ella's challenge made me think of something I did quite a few years ago, by way of a fashion statement of my own. Of course, everybody and his/her dog has done it since, and I don't feel I'm any sort of a trendsetter, but it was an adventure at the time.

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when I was really no longer young

(but younger then than now)

my hair had started to gather some grey

and I wanted it changed somehow.

one day as my stylist cut my hair

I noticed

different colored dyes

all arrayed before my eyes

and asked her to dye my grey bits

graple.

what fun I had for a couple of weeks

with my brown hair violet-streaked

a whole lot better than grey or white!

I realized then that I might

be able to wear only

my purple clothes

and purple shoes,

with purple hose.

I had a friend take a photo of me

and I was all excited to see

how it looked, because by then

I'd had it all dyed brown again,

only to find out, when it was too late

the

photo

was

not

in

color.