Grungey Grurple
What the hell is 'Grurple' I hear you ask. Well, mix grey and purple and what do you get? Some might call it a dark mauve but I like my colours spelt out for me in a juvenile way. I had a griege (grey and beige) fetish a while ago and now I'm really feeling the grurple. If purple is groovy and grey is steely then I think grurple is perfect for the upcoming season which sees the revival of grunge. Ho ho ho, I can't wait to see the London up-to-minute trendies try and embrace this one.
But back to grurple. Since grey is supposed to be the colour of the season, I'd rather digress to grurple because I wear grey every freaking season and it's not such a big colour shock for me. Plus, I like that it's purple with some grittiness. So far, I have two pairs of shoes in grurple but I'm hoping high street stores will start getting grurple happy very soon. The ones on the left are more like a light grurple that I picked up from Faith for £12 (bless blue cross sales....) and the ones on the right are a pair of Karine Arabian pumps I got a few years back though I still love them to bits.
I must confess, I do love the purple.
P.S. Where's the catwalk pic from, is it Margaret Howell?
Posted by: Jess | 29 July 2006 at 15:26
^Well spotted...yes it is Margaret Howell!
Posted by: susie_bubble | 29 July 2006 at 15:33
grurple! love that word.
Posted by: ellen | 29 July 2006 at 15:36
were you using greige as a term for grey and beige on tfs ages ago? i always thought you just meant grey (as in greige goods). maybe you should call it beirey. hehe.
Posted by: sos | 29 July 2006 at 16:32
ps nice shoes, of course!
Posted by: sos | 29 July 2006 at 16:33
Grurple :D
I'm a big fan of grey, and I like colours that are a little greyed-out. Bright, bright colours and light pastels don't flatter me at all -- so anything that's a little dulled in colour is quick to take my fancy. I'd usually call it 'dusky [insert colour here]', but I like your idea better.
I love the grurple, but I've taken a recent fancy to grink and greyn as well :D Any other grey colours I should look out for?
Let the grey revolution march on!
Posted by: Erin | 29 July 2006 at 21:05
^I couldn't have put it better myself! If I was gonna start any colour revolution - please let it be grey!
I quite like grue which is really like teal/petrol. Grink is great too - takes the girliness out of pink. Now who can attempt grorange?
Posted by: susie_bubble | 29 July 2006 at 22:17
Oooh, grorange. Now I've never been able to pull off orange (personally, I think it has more to do with guts and less to do with actually suiting the colour ;)
I've started noticing that there's a fair bit of grellow in the Autumn / Winter collections, too. It's almost mustard, but not. If you follow :) (millions wouldn't, nor would they care, but I do! ;)
And as for grue, it's one of my favourite colours :D
Posted by: Erin | 29 July 2006 at 22:57
I believe that a grurple is something completely different than a grey and purple mix. A grurple is when you get the red, pink, and blue ghosts on top of each other in a game of Ms. Pac-Man. I understand the confusion, but please, don't make this mistake again.
Posted by: Max | 29 May 2007 at 15:51
I would have to agree with Erin. Grey and purple? What kind of machine are YOU playing on? I wonder what Ping Pac would have to say about this?
http://pactionary.com/?q=node/71
Posted by: Cmdr. Chesticle | 29 May 2007 at 17:32