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SewStorm wrote:
They also forget that one might have personal associations with a colour - a colour that suits me well, for instance, is navy blue, but I cannot bring myself to wear it because it reminds me of my school uniform. Ha, same reason I'll never, ever again wear Black Watch plaid!! Four years of wearing a wool, pleated skirt with at least four yards of that fabric cured me of it forever. For me, it's maroon. Luckily it's not a colour that is often in fashion - and never teamed with grey with a thin stripe of old gold. How could they do that to us? One of the local (private) schools has a girls' uniform so incredible in its hideosity[1] that it can only have been designed to make the girls look ugly, unappealing and childish. DD's school has a good idea: they let the sixth-formers (girls aged 17 and 18) wear a business suit in any dark colour. So the girls have a suit for interviews and the ones that go straight to work or a gap year instead of university have a wardrobe of smart clothes. Sally [1] Anyone else read the Georgia Nicholson books? They're for teenagers, but my excuse is that I'm a school librarian. |
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[1] Anyone else read the Georgia Nicholson books? They're for teenagers, but
my excuse is that I'm a school librarian. Yes, I love them! My excuse (if one is needed for a true bookaholic, which one is not) is that I'm the mother of a teenager, and after all, I need to know what she's reading. And when the title is "Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging", one really should preview, shoudn't one? LOL Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati |
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Hated color: Pea green. Makes me want to barf. Anyone remember when the two kitchen accessory colors were sunny egg-yolk yellow or pea green? I lived with cheap plastic pea green kitchen stuff for an obscenely long period of time--couldn't afford a new sneeze 'till we went from penniless to merely poor. MIL used to have a cheap plastic cover she used on her antique dining table. One day, I just couldn't tolerate the eyesore a moment longer, so I ran to Joann's and bought the heaviest, clearest plastic I could get-- really good stuff--and sneaked the old cover out to the trash. She retrieved the dam@##ed thing, but I wouldn't let her put it back on the table. Cea (finger down throat at memory) |
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Trishty wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 23:42:14 -0500 (EST), wrote: Hated color: Pea green. Makes me want to barf. Cea, if you hate pea green, I strongly suggest you never look at my bathroom. The previous owner's legacy is the entire suite in what we Brits would call avocado, but 'snot' would be a better description. This year, I swear, it's going to get replaced... ...my seven cats also cling around my legs in there, thus giving you more reasons for abject terror. Trish My parents once bought a house with a Birds Instant Custard yellow barfroom suite... Official name, primrose - Dad mitigated it by painting the walls a vibrant lime green! It looked very cheerful, but was never a bathroom into which to take a hangover! Nor was it one to inspire you to do your make-up in the mirror there - not unless you wanted to come out VERY brightly painted, to try to cover the faint green cast the walls gave you! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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My parents once bought a house with a Birds Instant Custard yellow
barfroom suite... Official name, primrose - Dad mitigated it by painting the walls a vibrant lime green! It looked very cheerful, but was never a bathroom into which to take a hangover! Nor was it one to inspire you to do your make-up in the mirror there - not unless you wanted to come out VERY brightly painted, to try to cover the faint green cast the walls gave you! Just thinking about it gives me a green cast, Kate! LOL Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati |
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SewStorm wrote:
My parents once bought a house with a Birds Instant Custard yellow barfroom suite... Official name, primrose - Dad mitigated it by painting the walls a vibrant lime green! It looked very cheerful, but was never a bathroom into which to take a hangover! Nor was it one to inspire you to do your make-up in the mirror there - not unless you wanted to come out VERY brightly painted, to try to cover the faint green cast the walls gave you! Just thinking about it gives me a green cast, Kate! LOL Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati It was very cheerful, and looked excellent, but, as my mother said, not really a keeper! If they'd been staying more than a year in the house (it went back on the market within 3 months of them moving in!), they'd have changed the suite! They bought this one when Dad left the RAF: Little Sis was still at the local college, and they wanted to move again as soon as she finished the year, as he was commuting an hour each way to work. The next house they bought had a plain white suite, but the most horrendous bilious pink wallpaper in the barfroom yoo ever did see! Not QUITE as bad as the 1950's grey with dark red lumps of dead animal kitchen wallpaper we discovered behind the old cupboards when the kitchen was refitted here, but almost... -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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Not QUITE as bad as the
1950's grey with dark red lumps of dead animal kitchen wallpaper we discovered behind the old cupboards when the kitchen was refitted here, shudder Ya gotta wonder what some of the wallpaper (and fabric) designers were thinking, don't you? Yikes! Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati |
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SewStorm wrote:
Not QUITE as bad as the 1950's grey with dark red lumps of dead animal kitchen wallpaper we discovered behind the old cupboards when the kitchen was refitted here, shudder Ya gotta wonder what some of the wallpaper (and fabric) designers were thinking, don't you? Yikes! Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati I have seen curtains of a similar nature! I think they were being used as dust sheets for a painting job... Not surprising, really! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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