Wordie: Fashion Colors: Comments

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:16:10 +0000

Frindley, did you mean dalmatian?

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:04:26 +0000

I'm the new Cruella DeVil. Just call me Babs d'Ingo.

Comment by frindley, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:53:50 +0000

I did like /dalmation/ dalmatian though. This could be the new leopard.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:18:32 +0000

I have tried to behave myself and failed.

Comment by mcmorgan, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:50:50 +0000

Thanks palooka - and thanks to everyone for the additions.

Comment by frindley, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:30:36 +0000

More great colour names (although not necessarily ones that would find currency in the fashion world!) here.

And here for art colours.

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:59:05 +0000

Uh, see also here!

Comment by frindley, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:12:07 +0000

I'm a summer-flowing-autumn. With the possible exception of rococo/rococco red, none of those Top 10 colours suit me at all!

Thanks for the Devil Wears Prada quote – that was a wonderful moment!

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:04:59 +0000

Why don't we all just join this conversation?
No, I have to avoid this proximate occasion of sin. It's evil. I know it.

Comment by palooka, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:53:12 +0000

I'm a slave to fashion Prolagus. I'm adding a lot more fawn heather to my wardrobe, if I can figure out what color it is that is.

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:47:33 +0000

This... stuff?
Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out - oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff.
Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), in The Devil Wears Prada

Comment by frindley, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:38:27 +0000

I wish I could find my other Talbots catalogue – they come up with some very amusing colours at times.

Comment by palooka, 6 months ago

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:33:12 +0000

Great list idea mcmorgan & wonderful color additions frindley!