[nfbmi-talk] Fwd: Colors Question

Linda Bloodsaw lbloodsaw2018 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 08:06:02 UTC 2012


I don't get hot.  Black t-shirts and black shorts. 

On Jan 2, 2012, at 12:56 AM, "jeff c" <jeffanel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I hope not during the summar, would that get kind of hot?
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Bloodsaw" <lbloodsaw2018 at gmail.com>
> To: <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 12:53 AM
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fwd: Colors Question
> 
> 
>> 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
>>> Reply-To: NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> 
>>> 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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