[nfbmi-talk] Colors Question

[Laura White]

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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