[nfbmi-talk] Colors Question

[joe harcz Comcast]

Brailling the teflon style tape is a good way to label clothes and can be 
put on the inside seem or shirt labels by either being sewed in or with a 
safety pin.

I believe it is called scylon tape.

Joe
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Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Colors Question


> Dear Federation Family:
>    Since all of you were so helpful with my candle question, I thought I 
> would pose another one. How do all of you understand and deal with color, 
> as far as matching clothes. Please do not misunderstand me. I am sure I do 
> not go around in unmatched things. However, the way I solve this is by 
> having my mom or sister in law or a friend assist me with matching things 
> together.  I put the pants over the bottom of the hanger, and put the 
> sweater on the hanger like the hanger is wearing the shirt in the 
> conventional fashion. Then, I make sure I know something tactual about the 
> outfit so that I can always put it back together after washing. It might 
> be a particular waistband on the pants, or the particular material that 
> the sweater is made of. However, I would not mix things around because I 
> would not know if they match. At one time, I had those metal color tags 
> and used these with safety pins, but I do not really like them. They have 
> many colors in the tags that I do not use, and too few of standard things 
> like black and blue. Who has gold clothes for instance? The other reason I 
> do not like them is that, since I have been blind from birth, and I know 
> there are different shades of colors, having a tag on clothing does not 
> really help me know what it goes with. My method of always wearing the 
> same things together that I have had sighted assistance to put together 
> seems the most safe. Mom has said that a few outfits could be 
> interchanged, but when I do this she will inevitably say that the two 
> things I chose do not go together. How do other totally blind people 
> match, and more than that, how do you understand color enough to be able 
> to make independent choices?
>
> Terri Wilcox
>
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