Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxh!mhuxi!dsg From: dsg@mhuxi.UUCP (David S. Green) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Color Analysis Message-ID: <345@mhuxi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 11:31:50 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxi.345 Posted: Wed Aug 21 11:31:50 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 13:16:58 EDT References: <1050@mtgzz.UUCP> <360@hlwpb.UUCP> <5609@tektronix.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 32 > > >"Fashion" and cost - effective clothing are mutually exclusive. > Why? > Moira Mallison > tektronix!moiram Because the latest designer clothing can be very expensive and fashion is what is currently in vogue. There is a distinct difference between style and fashion. For example, blue pinstripe suits are always in style for business. But this year's fashion may be European cut and last year's may be American cut. The difference between the two cuts determine fashion. If one follows the latest fashion, a closet full of blue pinstripe suites may result. This is not cost effective. If I am aware that a long term style is blue pinstipe suits, I can buy one from a reputable manufacturer who doesn't change the lapel width from year to year; this is cost effective. If I really want to dress fashionably, all that I would need to do is buy a new yellow tie for this year and wear it with the old blue pinstrip suite. Of course, my basic assumptions are that a "style" lasts for several years and "fashion" exists for one season, at best. If you accept this assumption, and want to dress fashionably, I don't see how it can be done without spending a lot of money on clothing every year. One last note, sometimes some rather hideous colors are in fashion and very few people can wear those colors and look decent. You don't need a color analysis course to avoid some of the colors that clothes designers foist upon the world. David S. Green ..mhuxi!dsg "The head monkey in Paris puts on a traveler's cap and all the other monkey's do the same" -- "Walden" by H. Thoreau