Meanwhile at City C.
Dolores had poured a cup of water when she woke up during the night due to thirst, but she couldn’t fall asleep anymore after drinking the water and got back to the bed, so she directly woke up and took a book to read while sitting at the bedside.
She was sleeping alone in the room, the two children were sleeping in another rooms, so she didn’t have to worry that she might disturb them. The place she lived was not a detached house, it was a residential area with great environment and facilities, and it was quiet. There was one unit at each floor, the area was neither too big nor small, it was one hundred and sixty square meters with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room.
When Theresa was back, she would also stay here. Dolores was the one who had asked Theresa to stay here because Theresa was hurt before, there were more people staying here and could avoid her from staying alone and thinking too much, the four bedrooms were just enough for them to stay.
There was a bookshelf being placed at the right side of the window in her bedroom, it was full of books. The books were not related to fashion design, they were China’s cultural history books. As a powerful country with history of five thousand years, the ancestors had left uncountable intangible cultural heritages which were profound.
Some of these books were related to embroideries.
There were many types of embroideries, like hands embroidery, seeding embroidery, gold thread embroidery, double-sided embroidery and so on. She had noticed in the past, but she didn’t research deep into these, now she realized that these things were so beautiful after she calmed down.
Especially the traditional culture of the country, in which the red color gave a good symbol and meaning.
She had read a paragraph of article talking about the ancient marriage in a book, she was so attracted to the wedding dress inside.
The wedding dress, ‘gown’ which was popular nowadays, was the first choice of most young couples.
It was white and clean, representing the purity of love.
In fact, this wasn’t the implied meaning at the beginning, it was the explanation given by the people at later time. The origin of gown could be traced back to the Roman times, because during that time, white color symbolized joy, it was that simple and just similar to our country in which red color was the color of joy.
Visually, Dolores felt that red color could represent more joyful and lively atmosphere.
Red color was full of enthusiasm, as bright as the fire, deep but hot. She felt that this could reflect more of the feeling than gown when someone got married, it was positive and enthusiastic, some more it brought the curiosity of the future.
From her thought, this was the feeling when getting married, looking forward and being curious of the future, with enthusiasm as well.
This time, she had created a series of wedding dress with a total of twelve pieces. All of the designs were made referring to the ancient wedding dress, combining with some modern elements, every dress have different patterns, the embroidery was different as well, but the main fabric was the same.
The combination of Tea silk with different embroideries as well as the combination of ancient wedding dress with modern elements, giving a whole new design and symbol, she had named this series as Modern Chinese.
She found out that the modern Chinese interior design was popular recently in the country, so it meant that the people were still having deep affections to the things that were left by the ancestors.
She not only wanted to let Tea silk come back into people’s sights again, but she also wanted to expand this culture to other places as well. She had the connections, it wasn’t difficult for her to have a fashion show at international level. What she wanted to do now, was to make this series perfect and she must make it shine in the international arena.
She had faced a lot of problems during the process of making, she was researching about these recently. Although she was a bit tired, but her life was enriched. Sometimes when she was free, she would miss that person as well, but she had spent more time in researching and solving the problems. She would keep on repeating the experiment, the designs would also be changed as the patterns changed, so the time had passed quickly.
This night was still the same, she had fallen asleep in the bed when reading the book, the book was still in her hand.
She hadn’t woken up even at daybreak.
The two children had become more independent now, they could wear their clothes, wash their faces and brush their teeth by themselves without the help from others.
Theresa had taken a look at Dolores in the morning, she knew that Dolores had stayed up late reading the books again, so she didn’t wake her up. Theresa was wearing a slip long dress which was loose, she didn’t comb her hair intentionally, so the thick hair was a bit messy, but she looked pretty with the indolence. She went to the kitchen and prepared the breakfast, they had ordered the milk for breakfast which would be delivered on time at seven o’clock, the milk was fresh without adding any additives and was healthier. It was better to have the milk without any flavor processing.
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