? Since I was sixteen years old, my clothes have blocked the color red, because the bright colors are too bright, too flamboyant, and too aggressive, but I like deep colors. The color, at least, shouldn't be so enchanting. Besides, Lin Daojing in a plain white cheongsam in "Song of Youth" was the dream of girls of our generation.
? That year, my eldest brother had a girlfriend, and my mother sent someone to Chengdu to bring back two pieces of clothing. One was bright red, and the other was beige with a dark coffee base. My mother asked me to choose one. , faced with two pieces of clothing, I chose a calm beige color with a dark coffee plaid. When my mother saw that I refused to choose red, she sighed for a while, but still followed me.
My sister-in-law was beaming in a bright red top, but her slightly dark complexion made her look very country. So, I was glad for my choice, but despite the fact that the calm color was very old-fashioned, the aunts were very fond of my mother. Said, why do you dress your daughter in such an old-fashioned way? The mother shook her head, she wanted to do that.
? So, I walked into the flower season wearing beige clothes. In summer, I wore a white shirt (we didn’t have white cotton skirts at that time). In winter, I wore a coat made from my mother’s navy blue woolen coat.
? It must have been when I was nineteen years old. I had already started working as a teacher in a rural primary school. As a literature lover, I read Tie Ning’s novel "The Red Shirt Without Buttons" in a magazine. , I suddenly became excited. There were no phones at that time, let alone mobile phones. I lied that I had something to do at home, asked for leave from my boss, ran down the mountain, found my best friend who also likes literature, and shared this novel together.
? Tie Ning’s poetry-like and graceful writing intoxicated us, but what made us more excited and yearned for was the girl named An Ran, who was wearing a buttonless red shirt like a ball of fire. She ran towards us as if she was wearing a different shirt, and because of her true personality, she became a bright spot among her hypocritical classmates in front of her cautious father who was suppressed by the rightist hat, in front of the old-fashioned teacher, and I also suddenly dreamed of a red shirt, and it should be without buttons.
? However, from the description in the novel, we really can’t imagine the style of that buttonless shirt. We only know that it has no buttons and a thin white zipper on the back. We can’t even imagine that I am wearing a bright red shirt. How, will it be as rural as my would-be sister-in-law (that woman did not become my sister-in-law in the end).
? Just when we had almost forgotten that novel, it was made into a movie and renamed "The Girl in Red", and the by-product of the movie was the buttonless dress worn by the heroine. The red shirt suddenly became popular across the country.
? It was the beginning of reform and opening up. There were self-employed people around us, and there was a clothing street in the mountainous town. There were clothing stalls on both sides of the street, and every companion wore a red dress worn by An Ran. The shirt was named An Ran Shirt. The bosses shouted: "Come and see, the clothes from "The Girl in Red", I just bought them from Chengdu."
? We are a bunch of people. The girl took her newly paid salary and ran to the clothing street to look at the safety shirts, but she felt that they were not as good as she had imagined. After all, the quality of the knock-off version of the safety shirts could not be compared with the authentic ones.
"Do you want to buy it?" I asked my female companion.
? "Too childish."
? Another female companion touched her clothes, shook her head and said, "Acrylic, isn't it good?"
? "Why is it bad?" I didn't know much about clothing materials at that time, and I just wanted to choose a good-looking color.
? "You touch it, it's not comfortable at all."
? I touched it, and sure enough, I thought, how could the sister in the novel buy such clothes for her sister? ?
"However, as long as it doesn't fit close to the body, it's okay. Also, you have a baby face, so it will definitely look good in it.
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? However, I finally chose a purple pullover instead of the red shirt without buttons, because I was interested in purple at that time. There was a small straw hat printed on the shirt, which was very cute. Cute.
? Another girl in the school likes fashion. She actually wore red bell-bottom pants to teach in the countryside, which attracted many young people to watch. They were all local rural youths. The conservative village party secretary went to the countryside. I filed a complaint with the cultural and educational officer. Somehow the education bureau leader found out and criticized the fashionable girl. The girl was scolded and cried. She had no choice but to wear the red flared pants. For me, the red shirt without buttons became a dream.
When I was 24 years old, I felt that my youth was leaving me quickly, so I bought a red dress when I got married. My mother was shocked. She didn’t expect that she would refuse to wear red at the age of 16. My daughter actually chose red when she got married. She only said: "It's so red, and there is another one-step skirt underneath. How can I wear it when I have a baby in the future?" ”
? Unfortunately, she was right. I only wore that woolen skirt once at a wedding, and then it hung lonely in the cupboard. Moreover, the bride I wore the same dress with at that time passed away due to cancer. And I ended my marriage. But I don’t regret it, because I ended my youth with bright red.