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From: dsg@mhuxi.UUCP (David S. Green)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Color Analysis
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 11:31:50 EDT
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> >"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