Which colours go together and which ones don't?

[Orang Utan]

Or is if just bollocks and should just wear what we want, coordination be damned? After all, it never did Sue Pollard any harm.

 

[8ball]

You probably know about green by this point...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[Orang Utan]

You probably know about green by this point...

What about it?

 

[bi0boy]

What about it?

It goes with orange

 

[Orang Utan]

It goes with orange

Hmm. I need more green clothes.

 

[8ball]

Hmm. I need more green clothes.

 

[existentialist]

I am colour blind.

Never was this so useful as when my first employer, British Home Stores, decreed that stockroom staff would wear shirt and tie, colour unspecified.

I began a career of purchasing shirts, ties, and socks (fortunately, this was 1981 and fluorescent socks were in) with the aim of ensuring that they clashed as badly as possible. A pink shirt with lemon yellow tie was possibly my piece de resistance, until I discovered patterns.

What can be done with a striped shirt and paisley tie cannot be undone. I believe some people's eyes are still bleeding, 35 years later.

 

[existentialist]

Incidentally, they relented, and provided a clothing allowance. White shirts (2), blue tie (1).

Naturally, I continued to embellish this rather mundane wardrobe. I really can't understand why they were so pleased to see me go...

 

[spanglechick]

as a redhead, you suit blues and greens best - but i love a redhead in purple.

reds and pinks are hard but not impossible. browns and teracotta-oranges are safe but a bit "blendy".

 

[toblerone3]

absolutely never never never wear orange and purple.

unless you want to be Daily Mail fashion circa 2011.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...t-clash-How-orange-purple-colours-season.html

 

[Orang Utan]

absolutely never never never wear orange and purple.

Why not?

 

[toblerone3]

Why not?

See Daily fascist link above.

 

[Orang Utan]

See Daily fascist link above.

It's the clothes that look horrid not the colours. Though i'm not sure about the shades of those colours going well. I don't think this means one should never ever put them together though.

 

[Ax^]

as a redhead, you suit blues and greens best.

And black

 

[Orang Utan]

And black

Not really. I have the odd black t-shirt and I have black cords for work. But not all over. Ugh.

 

[chemn]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

absolutely never never never wear orange and purple.

one place i worked many years ago, it was tradition to wear clothes you got for xmas on the first day back.

i got an orange shirt from one set of relatives, and a jumper that was purple / white / black splodges (there was a bit of a trend for colourful jumpers in the late 80s) from another

 

[Orang Utan]

What's that?

 

[existentialist]

Not really. I have the odd black t-shirt and I have black cords for work. But not all over. Ugh.

Before Mrs E Mk II, there was a period where I didn't own anything except black. Black hats, shirts, coat, shoes, socks, shreds, the lot. I had a grey suit and some white shirts, but I mostly wore a black T-shirt with the suit unless I absolutely couldn't - my "Albanian arms dealer" look.

I like black. It makes getting dressed in the morning so much easier.

 

[Orang Utan]

Your choice. I need colour though.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I like black. It makes getting dressed in the morning so much easier.

unless you have a white (or part white) cat

 

[existentialist]

Your choice. I need colour though.

Being colour blind, I've tended not to trust my judgement too much - colour is stressful!

And I have a similar colouring to you (though mine is now a bit more aged), so I have to be a little careful anyway - anything red makes me look more flushed than a Glastonbury khazi.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

more flushed than a Glastonbury khazi.

 

[cesare]

Your choice. I need colour though.

Hmm. Rose gold rather than puce, I think.

 

[Orang Utan]

You can wear red if you're ginger!

 

[existentialist]

You can wear red if you're ginger!

Not if you're ginger and me, you can't. Trust me on this.

 

[Orang Utan]

Hmm. Rose gold rather than puce, I think.

Neither if Google is correct. Both too pale.

 

[Orang Utan]

Not if you're ginger and me, you can't. Trust me on this.

I have a red and black checked shirt that works.

 

[cesare]

Neither if Google is correct. Both too pale.

You prefer dark colours?