A number of perfectly good and reasonably priced dresses had been tried and rejected, and any of them would have worked for Glamerspear, or Sparkshower, or Ebonshield, or just about anypony else with an ordinary, brightly-colored coat (well, it was just a bright mane in Eb’s case, but at least she had some violet going on with her coat). But set against Honour's triple-brown combo, they just looked... 'noisy.' Like she was trying too hard to catch everypony's attention -- at least in Lily’s opinion.