[nfbmi-talk] Fwd: Colors Question

Mon Jan 2 15:33:05 UTC 2012

MRS. Johnny Cash!  The woman in black!
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From: "Linda Bloodsaw" <lbloodsaw2018 at gmail.com>
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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
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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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