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So in a fit of becoming-my-mother, I organized my drawers and my closet last night. I feel good about this, but looking at the closet in order to be pleased with the new tidiness has made me realize something else.
I see the following colors:
It feels weirdly monochrome in there, although writing it down I guess I can see that it's not. But: there are other colors, aren't there? The entire family of yellow is, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sanj says, forbidden unto me, but ... I don't know, but I feel like now that it's September maybe there will be some kind of rust-colored stuff out there I can buy. Provided, of course, that I will ever wear it.
I see the following colors:
blackIn the drawers I do a little better, in that I also have green (one kelly and one army) and a sort of coral, not at all the same as the pink but not all the way to orange. (If you include bridesmaids' dresses, I've also got a hunter-green and a burgundy (it may actually have called itself "mulberry"), but the odds I will ever wear either of those again are nil plus the fact that they no longer fit.)
white
brown
grey (mostly charcoal, but a couple of lighter things as well)
red
blue (mostly navy or nearly-navy, but one or two lighter blues)
purple (mostly a deeper, plummy sort of purple; not sure if I have anything lilac-y)
pink (just a bit, a kind of candy pink)
It feels weirdly monochrome in there, although writing it down I guess I can see that it's not. But: there are other colors, aren't there? The entire family of yellow is, as
sanj says, forbidden unto me, but ... I don't know, but I feel like now that it's September maybe there will be some kind of rust-colored stuff out there I can buy. Provided, of course, that I will ever wear it.
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Don't feel bad about the lack of colors. Here's my list:
Shoes - black and brown
Closet clothes - denim, black, brown, teal, white, burgundy
Drawer - grey, black, brown, teal, white (all oversized t-shirts)
When I get down to a size 16 (my next goal) I'm going shopping. Then when I hit size 12 (my final goal) I will shop again. I really should find something besides oversized t-shirts to wear. Looking at it all, I don't have very many clothes compared to most women. Four pair of jeans, maybe six button down shirts, two long skirts and two dresses. In the drawer there are maybe two dozen t-shirts. My husband has more clothes than me. I should rememdy that when I hit size 12.
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I wear a lot of brown. a LOT. No, more than that. Navy, too. and teal, and orange, often at the same time. I've been branching out a little but you have to be careful with color -- I'm a huge huge fan of color and I like wearing it in unexpected combinations, and I treat orange as a neutral all the time which drives some people NUTS -- but sometimes, a color just doesn't work on me, you know? and sometimes a color I hate works too well....pale butter yellow, I'm looking at YOU.
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There was a yellow thing I saw recently that did not, for some reason, look on me like death. Mainly, anything yellow or gold or really even any color beginning a millimeter away from ivory does nothing but make me look like I have a liver condition. People don't think I have olive skin, because I'm so pale, but it's true. (I had to special order stage makeup, in college, because "fairest" was this pink awfulness; I needed "fairest olive", which 80% of my colleagues didn't even know existed.)
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The winter lines should be coming into the shops right about now, so I think it's time for clothes shopping.
Oh, and having an odd skin tone that matches *nothing* is something I know about.
Maybe we should corral her sometime and going power-shopping? Talbots (http://www1.talbots.com/talbotsonline/index.aspx) is my friend, and seems to have much on clearance this month.
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I'm all in favor of power-shopping, even though Talbots and I aren't that close.
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I'm thinking about hitting the Kennedy Center Open House Arts Festival (http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/festivals/prelude/openhouse.cfm) tomorrow, as it is free and there were be taiko drumming, but it's kind of up in the air.
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