Color

Tina Trotter Beaton was a woman who lived in Amarillo, Texas in the 1950s and who used to walk to work every morning in a nicely starched hoop skirt, her hair done up in a beehive hairdo and her eyes big and bold like lollipops so that people who saw her — and everybody saw her — would stop and stare and wonder where she came from and where she was going. Little did they know. See, Tina Trotter Beaton was ahead of her time, and although she may have looked anachronistic (or like a throwback to the days of your ancestors) she was really way ahead of Tom, Dick, and Harry when it came to how to live, what to do, and especially what to wear. Her sense of color, you see, was so heightened that she had the sensibility of Timothy Leary on LSD, the perceptiveness of Claude Monet from the French Impressionist school, and the vision of Rama Krishnamurti, the great Hindu poet and seer from the 13th century. Wouldn't you love to have seen the world the way Tina Trotter Beaton did!