Just so it's red......

"You can get her anything," I heard My Dad say, "just so it's red!" That was definitely my favorite color during my early teens and I remember having a red jacket and red sandals. This color affection eventually cooled, but never completely vanished. So when I came to Japan I had one red dress that Mom had made for me.

During some of those early months I spent some time helping at a mission infirmary. One day one of the more seasoned missionaries said to me, "Lila, get rid of that red dress!" It seems that red was associated with prostitutes and ordinary people avoided wearing it.

Then some years later we returned to Japan from a home leave and what did we notice but that people were wearing red! "What happened?" Michael Jackson came over with his red outfits, and from then on it was acceptable. So now you can wear it all you want to....thanks to Michael Jackson!