Re: Which Colors Do You Find Most Difficult To Fin... - Page 3

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

@StraytoStay wrote:
Khaki and tan for crops and shorts. Must be out of style, but I'd still wear them.

@StraytoStay,Oh, no! In the national boutique where I work they are very much available.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

@Bird mama wrote:
The colors seem to come and go. For awhile there, navy shoes were offered but it was the weirdest shade of blue. I also recall when I couldn't find a decent shade of brown in slacks.

I love olive and have been accumulating olive everything while I can get it. Greens and teals (especially in pants) also seem to come and go.

I went to Catholic school for 12 years and my uniform was navy and white all 12 years. I know my navy, lol.

@Bird mama,I may have told you but my elementary school was with the Sisters Of Mercy. We were Lutherine. It was sweet that the first year DH and I were married I was Asst. Business Director for Sacred Heart College. Then I got into the county system to teach. This is where I worked.

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lulu2 · ‎03-09-2010

@Bird mama wrote:

I went to Catholic school for 12 years and my uniform was navy and white all 12 years. I know my navy, lol.
@Bird mama
K-12 it was navy blue and white for me too. We even had navy and white saddle shoes. I cannot believe I still love that color combination.

I attended Catholic colleges for both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Thankfully there were no uniforms involved.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

@CAMOGIRL,@Drythe@AndreaToo,@Oznell@SilleeMee,stevieb.

@ROMARY1,KitCat1,@straytostray,@StraytoStray

Ladies, it seems that availibility of green exists and well as the depth of the shade.

Many times, the Pantone color of the year comes out in higher concentration the next year. If companies have gone into early production. they'll miss that first season.

Finding a certain shade is covered by Carole Jackson in her book "Color Me Beautiful" where there is a full page of all the neutrals and colors best suited to each complection. When the book first came out, you could be in a store and the person ahead of you had her book open to her 50-60 color pallatte for her season. Carole says that a color will appear in highest concentration in the season for which it is named. True emerald green, therefore, is in winter's palette and those are the months that color will be available. If your green is "spring green", then It will be available only in the spring.

Her book is still on amazon and a smart purchase. Then all of your colors flow along together. On the color page you see the hue of every single color for your complection. Each color flows into the other!

I color coded every one of my Interior Design students because if you decorate a home in a palette other than yours it's usually an impluse buy.

The first time I bought upholstered furniture I bought a pretty fall print. In six months I HATED it! Everytime I walked into that room, my head said "Wrong! wrong!!!" I had to live with it several years, however!"

cotton4me · ‎03-09-2010

Before reading your post I was going to say navy. Everything seems to be geared toward black which is too harsh for me. Navy works better as my neutral. I would love to see pants, yoga pants, shoes, etc. in navy.

StraytoStay · ‎07-18-2016

@ECBG can you say where you work to answer this post? Thanks!

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

@StraytoStay wrote:
@ECBG can you say where you work to answer this post? Thanks!

@StraytoStay, The last year I taught, I had taken a fav student to Dillards to apply for a position. While she was taking the computer personality test, apparently the mgr had been told there was someone in his waiting room and he came out. I told him that I had brought the applicant. He said he had seen me in the store many time and admired my sense of style. He offered me a job upon retirement from the system. At the time I had been approached on the floor of Chicos and asked where I worked by the top mgr. She also offered me a job saying I could work a day a week untill I was retired.

I went to Dillards and increased their sales 56% in 6 months because I can work with color. After a year of carrying more of half the store back to the other side, I was miserablr with my sciatic nerve. When I went to the doctor, the PA had to carry me to the treatment room because I couldn't stand from an arm chair!

Several months later, after healing, I went to Belks Fine Jewelry. The mgr there and I had become friends. I studied all I could and learned from her as well, because she was a gemologist. I was 165% over my sales goal, because I was still styling. I left because mgmt. wouldn't stand behind me when a part time hire ran in front of me until she tripped me and I almost fell face front into the glass, metal, and wood cabinets. She was angry because I wouldn't give her my sales! The floor mgr. wouldn't support me and I left after being threatened. (I reported both to corporite).

Next I loved being in clothes and styling at Chicos, but 4 hrs. one week and 0 the next was horrible! I can't stand to sit!

After several months I have found a position at Talbots Outlet Store, which is the casual store, not seconds. I have styled many people and had a late 30's single mother cry when I showed her how to dress to look 20 pounds lighter.

I love color, and plan to stay there although, another boutique has called me twice, I'm with a great team. After all, aren't your co- workers what it's all about?

kelsey17 · ‎04-10-2012

@CAMOGIRL wrote:
In clothes -
Deep, rich hunter green. Love it in the fall/winter for sweaters, or a deep, rich plum also.
And, a nice navy - not too dark it looks black and not to light either that looks cheap.

Accessories I do not have a problem with - pretty much stick to the more basic colors there.

Those were the exact two colors i thought of right away...

love my navy's and like you said not too light not too dark

looking..................and WISH there would be more Hunter green around................. nothing as fresh looking as hunter green!

StraytoStay · ‎07-18-2016

@ECBG thanks, wasn't sure if you were allowed to say here. I has seen Talbot's mentioned so often I put in my location at their website to find a store near me and none came up. I'm in the Pacific Northwest.

PS! That's horrible about Belks, too! ( haven't seen those stores here either.)

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

I like red but for my coloring I need reds that lean toward blue more than yellow. I used to love the Denim & Co apple red shade. It's hard for me to find reds.