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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
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 23:48:48 1985
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Reply-To: edhall@rand-unix.UUCP (Ed Hall)
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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
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