[nfbmi-talk] Fwd: Colors Question

[Linda Bloodsaw]

I wear all black every day.  It gives people something to talk about.



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> From: Laura White <lewhite86 at gmail.com>
> Date: January 2, 2012 12:12:00 AM EST
> To: NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Colors Question
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> 
> Hi Teri,
> I solve this 2 ways sometimes three but its escaping me as to what my
> third option is if the first 2 should fail.
> firstly,  I deal with pants.  Since I primarily wear blue jeans or
> Kakhi pants there is nothing that doesn't really match that.  Besides
> certain patterned things like argile for example which is a diamond
> pattern of sorts. Now with blue jeans if they are a traditional blue I
> just toss any old shirt on top.  The color to me doesn't so much
> matter.  For socks I have white socks for casual wear and they are
> different than my black socks for dress wear.
> With kahki pants if I am wearing black on bottom for my pant I wear
> black, white pink or  light blue on top.  One way this is achieved is
> by cutting the tag out of my black shirts and leaving the tags in my
> pink, white, or light blue shirts.
> Some colors like black and navy blue do not mix and its just hard to
> know unless you have been told.
> When I wear skirts especially I pair a skirt and sweater or top
> together and I make sure to ask what color shoes match.  A general
> rule of thumb is that you want the skirt to match the shoes and or you
> want the shirt and shoes to match. So as an example I will wear a
> black skirt with a light pink top and black heals.
> Color as a blind person is something that you have to work at being
> familiar with.  I personally like jeans and pullover sweaters or kakhi
> pants and a nice shirt so I don't have to dress up often.  When I shop
> for clothing I try to pick solid colors and things that can be worn
> with either jeans or kakhi.  I go so far as to ask the person I'm
> shopping with if the top I want can be worn with either.
> As for labeling colors on clothing?  Perhaps sew a button in to all
> your blue things and then sew a bead in to the hem of your red things.
> I never have done this but I here it can be useful.
> Hope this helps. Going to stop talking now.
> 
> 
> On 12/31/11, trising at sbcglobal.net <trising at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 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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