[nfbmi-talk] Fwd: Colors Question

Mon Jan 2 16:41:24 UTC 2012

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> Did you know that in desert countries like Saudi Arabia, they wear dark 
> colors?  They do this but wear them loosely.  It is supposed to help them 
> stay cool.  Something about the dark colors absorbing some of the heat 
> before it gets to the body.
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>>I hope not during the summar, would that get kind of hot?
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>> From: "Linda Bloodsaw" <lbloodsaw2018 at gmail.com>
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>> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 12:53 AM
>> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fwd: Colors Question
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>>
>>>I wear all black every day.  It gives people something to talk about.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
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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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