Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Color Analysis Tirade ( long and futile ) Message-ID: <2628@randvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 23:48:48 EDT Article-I.D.: randvax.2628 Posted: Mon Aug 5 23:48:48 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 06:35:02 EDT References: <74@axiom.UUCP> <2567@ut-sally.UUCP> <935@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Reply-To: edhall@rand-unix.UUCP (Ed Hall) Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 24 Summary: Dif'rnt strokes... Having had a couple of friends who were into fashion design, I have to admit that there is a lot more to this than you might think at first glance. Although the cut-and-dried formulae presented at the Color Analysis classes I've heard about are certainly simplistic and shallow, this sort of thing can be quite a fruitful point of departure for someone with an artistic mind. Clothing was most likely the very first art form, and certainly was (and is) the most common. Developing an eye for color coordination and the various moods and personalities it can represent is certainly a worthy endevor, even if it never progresses beyond ones closet. But I guess a lot of net-people must be ascetics who feel that achieving satisfaction of the senses is somehow base and sinful, that it doesn't matter at all how things look--especially themselves. These folks must wear clothes solely out of modesty or fear of arrest or cold, have bare walls, completely functional furniture, and drive white '67 VW bugs. They'd never think of chosing anything based upon whether it pleased or excited their eye. (1/2- :-), if you couldn't tell.) Which is all fine by me; my own life would be colorless to me if I didn't give my eyes something to feed on once in a while, but I've known folks who simply didn't care about such things and seemed quite happy about it. -Ed Hall decvax!randvax!edhall