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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Putting a stereotype to death
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 14:48:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 14:48:38 1985
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In article <386@timeinc.UUCP> greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:
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>Moira, you mentioned doing it (Color Analysis) on a lark. Good!
>As it should be.

Naturally, right after I attacked you comes this article where you are
nice all over again.  My apologies for being so snarky.

>Having some fun with clothes and colors should be just that: fun.

Granted.

>But the conformity of it all gets to me. Some Person, someWhere, wrote
>some Book, that tells you someHow what colors look best on you.
>("Look at me --- I'm a winter.  Whoopeee!)  And people actually
>take it seriously enough to defend!

And you take it seriously enough to attack!  if it's just fun, why bother
attacking it?  It's not more stupid or worhtless than stamp collecting,
and certainly cheaper.

>But when you need the security of wearing only what other people
>tell you to wear, be it the author of a book, or some actress who 
>displays her thighs and tells me how much her Calvin's matter to 
>her -- gimme a break.  
>I would assume that most of you have people that can tell you if
>you're dressed foolishly.  I should think that you would
>value their opinions a great deal more than someone who
>classifies people according to seasons!

Colour analysis has nothing to do with looking foolish.  You can look
as foolish in your colours as in any other colours.  All colour
analysis does is determine what colours give your skin a nice glow.

>Consider this: the same people that would tell you what "season"
>you are also are the ones that magically enforce high-heels,
>make-up, and stockings, as well as three piece suits, short hair-cuts,
>and a variety of other fashion "demands".

Yes, but you don't have to listen to them if you don't want to.  The
nice thing about colour analysis compared with everything else you
mentioned is that it is harmless and doesn't put you at the mercy of
the fashion industry.  On the contrary it puts the fashion industry at
the mercy of serious-minded colour freaks who will not change the
colour of their wardrobe each year at the whim of the fashion
industry's decisions on what the "colours of the season" are.
Besides, the colour people do not TELL you what colour you are, you
determine it with them.  And once you've determined your colours, you
have them for the rest of your life.  Colours are not consumer items
because you can't be convinced to change them.  I think that's rather a
nice nose-thumb to the fashion industry.
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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