::waves from SF hotel room::

Is it bad that I don't wanna go home already? I mean, the kids and the Hub and the dogs and the Stupidest Cat in the World could just come out here, right?

Had fabulous walk with jz and then most wonderfulest dinner with juliana. (And to be able to walk without dissolving into Big Sweat Ball? BONUS!)

It's gonna be hard to get on a plane, come Sunday.

Since peach is my best color, I loved that part of '80s fashion!

I remember the peach year! Except it's one of my worst colors, so its ubiquity annoyed me.

This weekend at Lane Bryant I found a shirt in forest green. I babbled excitedly at the sales clerk about what a beautiful color it was and how happy I was to see something in that shade. She calmly replied, "Yes, we're starting to get the fall colors in." I said, "No, this is FOREST green. Not dark olive. I swear I haven't seen it in YEARS. Now, if you just had some nice dark true navies."

From the way she blinked at me it was clear she didn't know the ways of color seasons. But I've been over-reliant on black and red for the past several years, because it's been hard to find the dark navies, forest greens, and burgundies that used to be the bulk of my wardrobe.

I'm going to have to have someone else objectively look sometime. I just held up red, aqua, light blue, and hot pink and all of them made me look tired. Might also be because I am tired. I have dark brown hair (if it were natural), brown eyes, and medium skin. The only color that I get a compliment on every single time is a dark salmon colored tee.

Colors you get consistently complemented on are generally the best guide. Brown eyes probably put you on the warm (i.e., spring or fall) side. And dark salmon would seem to confirm that. Light/medium/dark skin doesn't matter as much as whether there is a cool (blue) or warm (yellow) tone to it.

This weekend at Lane Bryant I found a shirt in forest green. I babbled excitedly at the sales clerk about what a beautiful color it was and how happy I was to see something in that shade. She calmly replied, "Yes, we're starting to get the fall colors in." I said, "No, this is FOREST green. Not dark olive. I swear I haven't seen it in YEARS. Now, if you just had some nice dark true navies."

I'm happy to see forest green again because I've been looking for FG hiking shorts to match a number of t-shirts. However, while better than olive for me, all greens are spring/fall colors according to the "Color Me Beautiful" seasons. Although, I can get away with ones that have a decent amount of blue in them (eau de nil, pine green).

Yeah, American ideas of what class is, and is not let multi-millionare from a billionaire family get elected as working class salt-of-the-earth guy because he chewed pork rinds! But that screwed up ideas about class got George Bush elected does not make them true. It just makes them a way to evade the subject.

See also the "elitist" meme about the Obamas.

I don't think it is a class issue so much as a disdain for intellectualism. Obama is an intellectual sort of guy, for that matter, so is his wife (the intellectual part, not the guy part). That's what makes him an "elitist". George Bush is not an intellectual and I think that's what gave him the guy-you-can-have-a-beer-with quality.

ita, the description of the dress as peach would make me think it's not a great color for you; however, it is super cute and one way you could mitigate the color is to have a (cool) white silk scarf up near your face--very Great Gatsby!

I wear a lot of burgundy, purple (lilac, NSM), pink (pale or medium, hot pink doesn't work), and green (forest or deep emerald.) Also, bright brown (if that's not an oxymoron) is good. Also true turquoise, when I can find it, looks great on me.

Can't wear yellow, peach, orange, most reds.

I have pale skin, greeny-blue eyes and red hair (natural dishwate brown). I remember the CMB book -- my mom had it, and I pored through it. I STILL have no idea what season I am. But at least at this point in my life I know what looks good on me and what doesn't.

I can wear white with a tan, but spill coffee and tea on myself everytime I wear it -- so I don't.

I'm happy to see forest green again because I've been looking for FG hiking shorts to match a number of t-shirts. However, while better than olive for me, all greens are spring/fall colors according to the "Color Me Beautiful" seasons. Although, I can get away with ones that have a decent amount of blue in them (eau de nil, pine green).

Well, I haven't actually looked at Color Me Beautiful since I was a teenager, but I would've sworn there's a deep forest green in the winter section. And it's the only green that looks really good on me, though I can get by with dark olives. Emerald, kelly, and lime are all hideous on me.

But if it's possible to be a winter/fall mix, that's what I am. My best colors are winter ones--black does wonderful things for my skin tone and makes my eyes (dark brown) just pop, and white, burgundy, navy, teal, and forest green are almost as good. (Purple I can't wear. At all. It makes me look jaundiced. Same thing for ivory, beige, and almost all pastels.) But I don't look bad in dark browns, olive greens, and even burnt orange, and I tend to pick make-up in fall colors rather than winter, because it feels like the slightly browner shades match my skin, hair, and eyes better.

Erin, you sound like you are a summer like me.

Here is the list of colors that I made for myself:
Neutrals:
Soft White/Winter White
Rose Beige to Rose-Brown (including Cocoa)
Light Blue-Grey to Soft Charcoal Blue-Grey
Greyed Navy

Basic Colors:
Watermelon
Blue-Red
Burgundy
Raspberry
Deep Blue-Green

Other Colors:
Most Pinks (Powder to Deep Rose)
Lavender
Mauve
Soft Fuchsia
Plum
Most Blues (Powder to Periwinkle, but not royal, Chinese, or navy)
Aqua (Light to Medium)
All Blue-Greens
Light Lemon Yellow

I don't think it is a class issue so much as a disdain for intellectualism.

Yes, but our attitudes toward intellectualism (both pro and con) are hugely, hugely tied up with class in the US. And likely elsewhere, but I can't speak for them.

At this point, I'm not sure what colors work for me. The site that gives you your seasons says I'm an autumn with my hair the color it is now (auburn), but my natural hair color was dark brown (going white) and my skin's pale with pink/cool undertones. So ... black's safe, right? Yellow still seems to work. Blues and greens seem OK. I've given up the bright red I used to wear a lot ('cause of the hair). Thinking of expanding into purple. sigh ... SUCH a first-world problem!