Red -- I'll BUY It! (Deborah Goodwin)

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Sept. 16, 2011 (ShapeShiftas.com) -- The first pieces of furniture my husband and I bought together were a red leather couch and loveseat, seven years after we got married. We were expecting our first child and were looking at furniture out of a nesting instinct (at least, I was, he was obliging as always). Up until this time, we had been using a cheap, foam, cartoon-shaped, hunter-green sofa that was one of my first adult furniture purchases.

I picked that couch up in Chicago, along with - two red chairs.

Chicago is the city where I met my husband, started the fashion career, and became interested in furniture and interior design. There are all these lovely modern buildings in Chicago, with space-age contemporary furnishings, and there is also the Merchandise Mart, full of furnishings and interior design showrooms. There is a lot more space in Chicago to fill with interesting stuff.

So when we moved to New York, the couch & two red chairs came along to an apartment that my future husband had rented and I was moving into sight unseen. The poor movers were somehow from West Virginia, they had never been to New York City and were totally traumatized by trying to drive a huge tractor/trailer into Manhattan mid-day. Still, they graciously and gallantly tried to stuff all my belongings into this tiny, two-room, ground-floor apartment that cost 3x what I had been paying in Chicago. Somehow, unbelievably, they got the green sofa down the spiral stairs, but the red chairs came off the truck last, and there just wasn't any room at all in the apartment. We couldn't get them in the door. We had to leave them in the hallway, and I called Salvation Army the next day.

Maybe because I had lost those red chairs, I started buying and wearing a lot of red. Perhaps too because it goes so well with black, the New York uniform. I was designing dresses by now, and we always noticed that red outsold every other color (black took over as the #1 dress color during the Clinton years, post-Monica Lewinsky. Coincidence?). I think it was my husband, seeing me wear another new red item, who first quipped, "It's like you think - Red - I'll BUY it!"

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