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Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:02 pm
by bobtheenchantedone
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/63072/

I don't read the Board too often these days (teh horror!) so I consider myself quite lucky that one of the few times I pop in to check I find this question.

Right now one of the more popular items in my shop are my tiny bracelet sets, which have so many possibilities that I find it near impossible to come up with color schemes. I am going to have many fun hours with kuler.

As for the ugly schemes mentioned...

I like turquoise (though I may define the color differently from CK), including turquoise (and other shades of blue) with brown.
I love red, white, and black (so far we have both a duct tape ring and a tiny bracelet set with this scheme)
I love pairing brown with other colors (most of my newer sets started with a shade of brown, which I then matched other colors to)

I dislike too many pastels together, any combination that immediately brings a holiday to mind (unless that holiday is approaching), and many schemes involving yellow.

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:08 pm
by Yarjka
Anything I dress my daughter in that isn't a pre-approved outfit is the worst color scheme ever ... at least that's what my wife tells me. My daughter is yet to complain.

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 1:38 am
by Dead Cat
I'm opposed to pale yellows and tans. Especially in public bathrooms. I do like turquoise, however, and I think it can look quite good with brown. Bright sea green can be jarring. I have more thoughts, but I can't think of them right now.

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 7:52 am
by bobtheenchantedone
Yarjka wrote:Anything I dress my daughter in that isn't a pre-approved outfit is the worst color scheme ever ... at least that's what my wife tells me. My daughter is yet to complain.
Any outfit I choose for my youngest sister has to be run past my mother first. I am also not so good with the choosing of the clothes.

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 12:24 pm
by Talons
Yarjka wrote:Anything I dress my daughter in that isn't a pre-approved outfit is the worst color scheme ever ... at least that's what my wife tells me. My daughter is yet to complain.
This happens at our house pretty frequently, mostly because I dress my daughter in the first things I can find.

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:36 pm
by thebigcheese
Anything my husband wears has to be approved by me first...



...okay, it's not really that bad. But I do try to keep him well dressed.

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:59 pm
by krebscout
Ha. Don't come to my house, anybody, because you will judge us. Sometimes Sauron wears plaid button-up shirts with crazy clashing ties and I love it. All colors, all patterns - it's all good.

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 9:04 am
by Katya
krebscout wrote:Ha. Don't come to my house, anybody, because you will judge us. Sometimes Sauron wears plaid button-up shirts with crazy clashing ties and I love it. All colors, all patterns - it's all good.
I like people who are brave enough to clash. I don't even like wearing two different colors. :oops:

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 9:29 am
by NerdGirl
The only colors I won't wear are orange and khaki. Khaki because it matches my skin too much and makes me look weird, and orange because I don't like it. I love to wear brown, especially with any shade of blue, pink, or black. I have a friend who hates it when I wear brown and black together, but Stacey and Clinton on What Not To Wear say that they are both neutrals, so it's fine.

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 10:48 am
by Katya
Katya wrote:
krebscout wrote:Ha. Don't come to my house, anybody, because you will judge us. Sometimes Sauron wears plaid button-up shirts with crazy clashing ties and I love it. All colors, all patterns - it's all good.
I like people who are brave enough to clash. I don't even like wearing two different colors. :oops:
I should probably clarify that I'm not counting neutrals as different colors. (I have my own rules about neutrals.) But I'm not miss monochrome.

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 10:59 am
by Dragon Lady
Do blue jeans count as neutral?

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 3:54 pm
by Katya
Dragon Lady wrote:Do blue jeans count as neutral?
I would count them as that, yeah.

Re: Ugly Color Schemes

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 8:23 am
by thebigcheese
Katya wrote:
Dragon Lady wrote:Do blue jeans count as neutral?
I would count them as that, yeah.
I've always wondered how that came to be. You would think that other-colored jeans would've become popular at some point (I guess they did in the 70's), but for the most part we all wear blue ALL THE TIME.