topic Re: Use of "color" words to describe items in Fashion

Use of "color" words to describe items

lolakimono — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:34:12 GMT

I saw on a host's FB page, that a viewer had urged her to stop using the word NUDE to refer to a shoe.

I did not see the shoe in question, but my thought was something like this color.

Do you think the viewer was offended by that word, NUDE, or that the implication is that it refers to a certain skin tone? I feel like hosts use that word a lot, especially when there are a few "neutral" colors to describe, as they encourage you to buy one neutral and one color.

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

GCR18 — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:48:48 GMT

One never knows. You see all the complaints here about what hosts say that offends people. I have no problem with the word nude.

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

ChynnaBlue — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:50:39 GMT

Nude is not a color and I think we'll all be better off when people stop referring to pale, creamy, and light tan shades as "nude." It does imply that the only acceptable shade for nude is white and that's not acceptable to me.

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

bri20 — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:56:27 GMT

Some people look to be offended at every turn.

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

Iwantcoffee — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:01:12 GMT

I think it was that the color refered to a certain skin tone.

Christian Louboutin's nude flats

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

bri20 — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:01:49 GMT

Christian Louboutain's new ad campaign for his nude flats.

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Bird mama — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:03:13 GMT

I've also seen bras and underpants advertised as nude and I often wonder, nude to who?

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

ladyroxanne — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:37:28 GMT

@lolakimono

how would you describe the color of these shoes? they do look pale pink in the photo, but that's me.

nude is really the absence of clothing and not a color that's true.

i wear only two colors of lingerie. black and beige which i've always called nude. nude meant it did not show up against the skin. at least it didn't on my skin.

i guess now i wear black and beige lingere!

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

Kachina624 — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:38:25 GMT

Some people are too dense to realize that's the name of a color and doesn't describe the state of the person wearing it. She must lead a sheltered life, because "nude" has been used to describe skin color for eons.

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

lolakimono — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:41:04 GMT

@ladyroxanne wrote:
@lolakimono

how would you describe the color of these shoes? they do look pale pink in the photo, but that's me.

@ladyroxanne

I tried to find a photo that best displays the "nude" I have heard them reference on air.

These are called "natural nubuck."

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

MomCat — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:48:36 GMT

Nude is just a color name, and my thought goes to that beige color when it is mentioned. Not to skin color. No one is beige. And, no one is black either. What will you do about that one?

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

ECBG — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:57:10 GMT

Doesn't bother me in the least.

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

ECBG — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:00:16 GMT

@lolakimono wrote:
@ladyroxanne wrote:
@lolakimono

how would you describe the color of these shoes? they do look pale pink in the photo, but that's me.

@ladyroxanne
I tried to find a photo that best displays the "nude" I have heard them reference on air.
These are called "natural nubuck."

Brown is not on the colorwheel and is made up of all the colors together (so is black-more violet). Your eye may pick up the red because red violet, pure violet, and red are all there plus a lot of white.

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

GingerPeach — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:34:30 GMT

If someone takes it upon him or herself to become as sophisticated as the Christian Louboutin company and ad agency, there should be no objection to the word "nude" as a color.

Perhaps it "used" to be thought of as only the color of a Caucasian person's skin, but that has changed as have so many other things.

Even "normal" colors such as green, blue, or red come in many different shades, tints, and hues. So why not "nude"?

Let's stop trying to make one size fit all, and understand that there are differences even in one name, and that it's quite all right for there to be differences.

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

care giver — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:53:30 GMT

We each have our own shade of nude,don't we?

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

GingerPeach — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:01:57 GMT

These could each be called "nude." These are foundation shades to match complexions, which are by extension one's color of skin:

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

Lyttlewyng — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:59:29 GMT

I have a lipstick in nude, a lip liner in bare, a powder in buff and an eye shadow pallet referred to as the nakeds. It's all good with me.

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

Karnerblue — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 03:19:06 GMT

@Kachina624 thank you!

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

Desertdi — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 06:18:26 GMT

And I thought nothing could leave me speechless.................

Re: Use of "color" words to describe items

TX-starlight — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:55:02 GMT

Lol, Me too!! This thread cracked me up!!