SOMETIMES childhood experience can have a lasting impact. Growing up in the 1980s, I had a lot of experience of pastels. There were pastel ra-ra skirts, pastel tights, pastel jeans, and pastel Confirmation outfits. In fact, my Confirmation was spent in a lemon trouser-suit. I had strawberry blonde hair and pale freckly skin, and I thought lemon was a good look. I had a lot to learn.