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Red goes well with Saints colors


Black and gold is the rage in South Mississippi lately, but adding a touch of red today will go a long way to support the American Heart Association’s National Wear Red Day.

This idea is going well, said Fiona Lipscomb, regional director with the American Heart Association Mississippi Gulf Coast. “We are loving the idea of combining what is familiar with this area, ‘the Who Dat Nation,’ and combining it to save lives.”

Lipscomb said businesses and companies have been calling her office wanting to know how they can incorporate red with the black and gold. People can wear a red top and black and gold on the bottom, red jewelry, a red tie or light their building up in red.


“We are thrilled the Saints have made it to the Super Bowl and couldn’t be happier that it (a black and gold day) would fall on National Wear Red Day,” said Lipscomb.

Prime Outlets’ national celebrity stylist Mark-Alan Harmon, who will be the keynote speaker at the Go Red For Women annual symposium today at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, gave some tips on how to wear the three colors, “Have black and gold as your basic pieces. The red should be an accent — a red bracelet, red headband or red sneaker.”

He also said people can go totally red and accent with the black and gold like a black and gold cap, but the most interesting way he preferred was to wear the black and gold and make it pop with the red.

Colors do play a significant role in the way you feel, said Harmon, and red is a power color.

The reason thousands of Americans will be wearing red today, said Lipscomb, is to draw attention to the fact that about 430,000 women die from cardiovascular disease annually. Wearing red honors these women and shows support and raises funds for research programs that can save lives. The American Heart Association Mississippi Gulf Coast can be reached at 604-5302.