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Festive reds demand attention

photo Leigh Ann Fryar wears a Jovani jersey cocktail dress with embellished illusion sleeves from Boutique Couture.

“When in doubt wear red.”- Fashion designer Bill Blass”The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.”- Poet Alice Meynell”I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red.”- Artist Alexander Calder

Caroline Chipley Johnson is a lady in red.

“It screams, ‘Look at me!'” says Johnson, an employee of the City of Chattanooga.

Local fashionistas agree that, especially this time of year with all the parties, if you want to be noticed, wear red.

“It’s a powerful color,” says local artist/fashion designer Julie Whitehead Jones, owner of Julie Belle Designs. “An attention-getter.”