color blind tricks o'the trade?!

[mike]

Is anyone here color blind and figured out any tricks to dress without wondering all day if you look foolish or not for your color combinations?
I've been wearing browns and greens for the first time ever, i was always leaned more towards black/gray/blue and a maybe one more color playing it safe since I am color blind and don't really know what looks horrible together or not.

 

[MB5]

I have heard of having tags with shapes added to garments to indicate their color or what coordinates with what.

 

[mike]

I can see colors, just my world is a lot less vibrant than yours
A guy I work with actually can't see any colors at all! He's not allowed to drive and it really is a problem for him!
For me though, I recently bought a pair of ralph lauren green herringbone tweed pants and I love them! Although the color... I don't know what I can match them to or not... :eusa_doh:

 

[A.R. McVintage]

Post 'em!

I could give a few suggestions.

 

[mike]

ok, I don't have a tripod, so this is the best I could do balancing the camera on a few books... feel free to be as kind as you want since this is how I went to work today

ralph lauren golf tweed herringbone pants, magnoli blue denim work shirt and jcrew sweater, oh yeah and a cap as its rainin' in lalaland.
so green, two blues and a gray scale cap....

colors seem off from picture to picture, but I'll let you be the judge

 

[Miss Brill]

ok, I don't have a tripod, so this is the best I could do balancing the camera on a few books... feel free to be as kind as you want since this is how I went to work today

ralph lauren golf tweed herringbone pants, magnoli blue denim work shirt and jcrew sweater, oh yeah and a cap as its rainin' in lalaland.
so green, two blues and a gray scale cap....

I like your wallpaper.


ETA: I don't know anything about men's clothes. My guys always wear jeans.

 

[mike]

I like your wallpaper.


ETA: I don't know anything about men's clothes. My guys always wear jeans.

thanks! yeeeah it's quite the fix-me-up house... behind that wallpaper is awful 70's wood paneling. when I moved in, the landlord said they could pull up the carpet and put in wood floors that they were getting from another place they owned but long story short, it never happened. But it's a lot of room in a decent-ish area in Los Angeles for cheap. So for the time being, it'll do nicely

 

[A.R. McVintage]

First off, the look you have going, the laid back kind is great. I think you look smart in them.

Other colors that'd go with the pants: oatmeal, russet, most blues (not aqua, turquoise or sea colors, though, the deeper blues, like your navy or the faded cornflower kind like your denim/chambray shirt), most browns, other shades of green (earth greens, such as moss, forest, etc., not bright like lime or kelly).

A good idea is to seriously go to the local home improvement center in your pants, find the paint swatch card that closest matches your pant's color, then also ask the paint expert what other shades compliment and contrast nicely with the green paint swatch card and take those cards too. Then you'll know what'll go well with your pants by using the color cards to match to other garments.

This should be essential to anyone, not just people that have trouble seeing color, but to most anyone as a lot of people just have a harder time matching colors, especially if they aren't in an art related field (and sometimes even then!)

 

[A.R. McVintage]

fftopic:

Does your bulldog have hip problems? I hear that a lot of them do which is terrible 'cause they're the biggest lover-babies.

 

[mike]

First off, the look you have going, the laid back kind is great. I think you look smart in them.

Other colors that'd go with the pants: oatmeal, russet, most blues (not aqua, turquoise or sea colors, though, the deeper blues, like your navy or the faded cornflower kind like your denim/chambray shirt), most browns, other shades of green (earth greens, such as moss, forest, etc., not bright like lime or kelly).

A good idea is to seriously go to the local home improvement center in your pants, find the paint swatch card that closest matches your pant's color, then also ask the paint expert what other shades compliment and contrast nicely with the green paint swatch card and take those cards too. Then you'll know what'll go well with your pants by using the color cards to match to other garments.

This should be essential to anyone, not just people that have trouble seeing color, but to most anyone as a lot of people just have a harder time matching colors, especially if they aren't in an art related field (and sometimes even then!)

Thanks! that sounds like a great idea. I switch off between casual and more dressed up, but I'm hyper sensitive about what people at work will think of me. So I find generally opting for more casual is still severely overdressed for southern california professionals lol

And yup bulldogs are prone to hip problems, none so far though for Dr. Gogol - knock on wood!

 

[Miss Brill]

thanks! yeeeah it's quite the fix-me-up house... behind that wallpaper is awful 70's wood paneling. when I moved in, the landlord said they could pull up the carpet and put in wood floors that they were getting from another place they owned but long story short, it never happened. But it's a lot of room in a decent-ish area in Los Angeles for cheap. So for the time being, it'll do nicely

It looks very Art Nouveau. I love wallpaper, but I hate putting it up.

 

[A.R. McVintage]

Thanks! that sounds like a great idea. I switch off between casual and more dressed up, but I'm hyper sensitive about what people at work will think of me. So I find generally opting for more casual is still severely overdressed for southern california professionals lol

And yup bulldogs are prone to hip problems, none so far though for Dr. Gogol - knock on wood!

God, you're in California too. I should have known better.

Such a dur moment. I'm down in Ontario. Nice, suburb-y, but not too far from our agents in Santa Monica.

And I hear you on how being casual is almost being dressy. I tend to go around in shorts, Vans and Aloha shirts most of the time, and just toss on a stingy brim and a matched sport-coat--which usually makes me fancier looking than the people I'm talking to!

I call the look California Casual. It works.

 

[mike]

It looks very Art Nouveau. I love wallpaper, but I hate putting it up.

yup we got it off of ebay! the seller had a few golden era wallpaper designs!

 

[mike]

God, you're in California too. I should have known better.

Such a dur moment. I'm down in Ontario. Nice, suburb-y, but not too far from our agents in Santa Monica.

And I hear you on how being casual is almost being dressy. I tend to go around in shorts, Vans and Aloha shirts most of the time, and just toss on a stingy brim and a matched sport-coat--which usually makes me fancier looking than the people I'm talking to!

I call the look California Casual. It works.

yeah it's an interesting place! It's a veeeery specific "executive lost on a desert island for a few weeks" look that you either completely fall into line with or remain the outsider. Not that I'm an exec or anything close. But they're the only ones even slightly dressed as if they thought they were going to work and not in sweatpants and flip flops hahaha

 

[Vintage Betty]

I have heard of having tags with shapes added to garments to indicate their color or what coordinates with what.

My Uncle was color blind in the worst sense. My Aunt used to mark his clothing with numbers and group his clothing together in the closet with markets (like the retail shops use), so that he could "choose" different combinations of clothing in different color groups.

And in case something got misplaced, the markers would still allow him to place the item back in the right grouping.

Above or below each set of items were shoes, hats, etc which matched the color group.

Hope this helps.

Vintage Betty

 

[Cobden]

Being colourblind myself, I go for a completely different approach: don't buy anything in a colour you might mistake for another.

i.e. I can't tell purple from blue, so I don't buy anything purple (I'm always asking female shop assitant's the colours of things). That way, I know I'm not going to be wearing a bright purple shirt with a blue suit, for example (although, for all I know, this might work). Same goes for green and brown; I don't own anything green.

This, unfortunately, ends up with me looking like a blue or brown jellybaby at times, but you can learn what item goes with what in different colours (I find that a yellow tie goes with either brown or blue, for example)

 

[Fletch]

I have heard of having tags with shapes added to garments to indicate their color or what coordinates with what.

Joe Haymes, the 1930s bandleader, apparently had a rare form of color blindness called "monochromatic vision," where you cannot perceive color at all. He had to have tags sewn into his clothes reading blue, gray, brown, etc.

 

[mike]

Being colourblind myself, I go for a completely different approach: don't buy anything in a colour you might mistake for another.

i.e. I can't tell purple from blue, so I don't buy anything purple (I'm always asking female shop assitant's the colours of things). That way, I know I'm not going to be wearing a bright purple shirt with a blue suit, for example (although, for all I know, this might work). Same goes for green and brown; I don't own anything green.

This, unfortunately, ends up with me looking like a blue or brown jellybaby at times, but you can learn what item goes with what in different colours (I find that a yellow tie goes with either brown or blue, for example)

Sounds like I have it the exact same way you do!
But these green pants I really liked! eearrgh! frustrating!! lol