Prompted by the Tee shirt thread I have a strong aversion to some colours. Being a female I am supposed to like pink but hate it and as for red I couldn't sit in a red room without wanting to scream. I love blue, most of my clothes are blue . I also like primrose yellow. I don't know what that says about me Does anyone else have a strong aversion to some colours..
If you are talking about clothes, then I really dislike pink, red, yellow, white - anything pale or too bright. If you are talking about furniture/furnishings - my preferences are all shades of brown from cream to dark chocolate brown, with either pale cream or magnolia walls and paintwork. I think that makes me sound extremely dull! Well - I probably am!
Red is meant to make you feel hungry - that's why so many restaurants use red I like yellow at the moment - nice sunny feel Clothes wise I don't wear anything too crazy, too old for that now
Well the colours I choose to decorate my home and the colours I wear are not the same. I'd wear most colours other than burgundy and I'm quite happy to wear bright colours. Red rooms arouse whether that be the bedroom or the living room, I definitely couldn't sit in a red lounge for long it'd make me angry rather than hungry.
My bedroom is red. Love it! Although makes it look a bit dark at times. I have no problems with bright, out there, clothing. Makes me feel happier and more energised to be wearing bright colours. My favourite colour is yellow. Not pale yellow or mustard yellow, but very bright, summery yellow. Have always loved it, and one day I will own my yellow car too!
im all about colour. i hate bland. my living room is brown and cream and thats just a compromise with hubby it wouldnt be if i could have all my own way. I tend to avoid yellow and orange both in decorating and clothes as it makes my skin look a weird colour. Hate black and try to avoid wearing it but sadly it is sometimes called for for work funerals ect. kitchen is lilac, bedroom is pillar box red, spare room is teal green, bathroom is purple. And my wardrobe looks like a rainbow threw up in it.
im not to fussed about what colour it is but i couldnt have all white everything. All the walls are cream due to being rented so i bring my colour in with all my stuff. I think the bedroom being red makes it warm and cosy and the light looks pink so its never very bright which i like for a bedroom. other rooms are all bright and makes me feel happy and alive and ready. dull rooms make me tired and dont want to do much of anything
My favourite colour is definitely green and I really like blues too. I have a pale lime green colour on most of my bedroom walls and one quite dark grey wall I like red on some things, I have red hair which I love. But 100% cant stand pink!
I detest green and would never consider it for my walls or my clothes. The same goes for brown, although I quite like it on other people's walls I d never have it on mine and I never buy brown clothes as it makes my skin look muddy. By far my favourite colour for clothes is black. I can't help myself, my internal GPS always directs me to something black and usually expensive! In summer I like wearing red or vibrant colours like cerise and I love the purple handbag I bought last year.
I love most colours - bright, vibrant ones, soft pastel ones, and dark ones too - depending on the mood I'm in. The only colour I don't like is maroon. Reminds me of my school uniform.
Please do not remind me of school uniforms. Our school just had to be different and instead of the usual tunics we had "specially designed to be different" ones which could only be bought from one, very expensive, shop. The stupid blouses to wear underneath were also "specially designed to be different" ones, also only from the same shop. Ditto the school berets. Ditto the summer dresses. The parents nearly went bonkers as being twins it cost them twice as much for our uniforms. Oh, and the tunics, blazers and berets were royal blue - a colour I have never fancied since. Strangely enough I never went off navy blue though, despite the dreaded navy blue knickers!
We had to get ours from a special shop too - everything was so expensive my parents bought things far too big for me so they would last! We had to have two types of hat - a straw one for summer, and a felt one for winter. And it was compulsory to wear them to and from school. If you were seen by a teacher or a prefect without your hat, you were made to wear it all day at school the next day - and every single teacher would ask you why you were wearing a hat so you would have to confess that you hadn't been wearing it on the way home.
Oh yes, the hats. But they were optional in special circumstances and the Parents applied for us to be able to stick to the berets as they could not afford yet more uniform necessities for us. Plus special outdoor shoes and indoor shoes, and special sandals in the summer - and always a vest under summer dresses. And not only was it compulsory to wear them to and from school but we were only allowed to walk on one side of the road to and from the underground station to the school.
Just had a thought - it is a good thing that this is in the Off Topic Chat section because we have gone waaaaay off topic! Sorry Meg
That's true! We had a very strict rule that we were only allowed to walk two abreast (and when I am forced off the pavement nowadays by large groups of schoolkids I can see it was quite a sensible rule!). The headmistress was determined that her school should have the reputation for well behaved pupils. We were terrified of her!
And, unless hair was very short, it had to be tied back. I once thought it clever to ignore that rule, and my hair was set alight by a bunsen burner. I must be getting old - all the rules which seemed so unreasonable at the time now seem quite sensible!
And satchels had to be leather and the sort worn on the back to keep shoulders back. Regular shoulder or hand grip satchels were not permitted. How the heck were such draconian rules just accepted by parents and pupils alike?
