Paige is holding a pair of sand colored hiking boots up to her chest. She complains that "the catalog said this was thistle, it is obviously slate". It is unclear if she means the beige boots or the mauve blouse she is wearing but slate is a color that is part gray and part blue, so that one can't tell exactly which color it is. Either way, her mauve shirt is in the pink family, and her boots in the pale brown (beige) family, which could actually be construed as "thistle", but neither is slate.