deep thoughts about the future of this administration

[mrissa]

Okay, fellow Really Pale Femmey Women! I think we need a preemptive writing on the blackboard exercise. Fifty times each:

"Just because Michelle Obama can wear that color does not mean I can wear that color."

We are going to need it this administration. Our new First Lady is veryvery good at dressing herself, not some idealized person on whom all trends look good, even the contradictory ones. And that is the lesson we need to learn from her clothes, not, "Ooh, she looks so pretty, I should wear exactly what she's wearing!"

Because she looks lovely, and we would look like three-month-old lutefisk in some of these colors.

Seriously. We need to take deep breaths and repeat, "Not every color is for every person, and that's okay."

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You know, I read somewhere that people decorate their houses to colors that are flattering to them, and...this totally does not explain the 1970s. At all.

My bathroom is a warm butter-yellow now. I never would have chosen it if the fixtures hadn't been harvest gold and the tile tan, but there were more important things on my list than replacing a perfectly functional sink and toilet and tile. Now I actually like the bathroom pretty well. I do go elsewhere to check a different mirror if I think a color is completely unflattering on me, though.

[rmnilsson.livejournal.com]

The thing about people decorating their houses in colors that are flattering to them is true. My mom sells floor coverings (carpet, tile, etc.) and she says that when a someone comes into the store, she takes them to the carpet or tile in colors they would look good in - and she is really good at judging things like that. She says it's particularly important when someone comes in asking for a color like gray, yellow, or beige, which can be warm or cool and come in so many shades.

Of course, people are also influenced by trends. Which explains the 1970s, and well, all periods since then.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And the person who does the shopping is almost always the decision-maker such that if they live with one or more other people of different coloring, going with the person who has come into the store tends to work?

[rmnilsson.livejournal.com]

Often enough that it's a time saver to start with that person's coloring. And yeah, it's usually not a man coming in alone, unless he's single. If a couple comes in together, she goes with the coloring of the woman, because they tend to be the decision makers, with the men having veto power. But when she talks about seeing people I knew in high school, she usually identifies the woman as having come in the store.

I don't think she has a script for dealing with same-sex couples since they're pretty rare out there but my guess is that she would probably work with whoever engaged her first.

[coalboy.livejournal.com]

My grandfather decorated their house to go with my grandmother's carrot-red hair: many greens, cream, lavender, burnt orange, brown.