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Re: Yes or No?
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[quote user="dontbecruel"]It's funny you should say that Laika. I have an old style manual for well educated English ladies, from the 1940s and there is a whole chapter on how my blondes should dress. They say fair-haired girls look good in sand-coloured clothes. I'm always trying to persuade my girlfriend (very blonde) to wear beige clothes on this basis and she's not convinced, but I think it looks cute.
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They probably disapprove of grey, correct? Hitchcock had to fight Edith Head (head of costume department) to get Kim Novak to wear pale grey for Vertigo, as it went against the diktats of the time. As we know, the results were memorable. I'd encourage Laïka to find the exact colour, it might marry suprinsingly well with her complexion.
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dontbecruel, I have heard that as well, mostly from well educated sales associates. Those old manuals also say that blondes should never wear all black, because it makes them look like floating heads. [:^)] I know the look your talking about though--I've seen very pale blondes looking very striking in beige. I'm more honey-colored, so the effect is a bit different.
Fuuma, is that a no? What do you think an alternative/better color for a trench would be? I was thinking dove grey, which has a bit of brown in it...
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[quote user="laika"][quote user="Fuuma"]
[quote user="dontbecruel"]It's funny you should say that Laika. I have an old style manual for well educated English ladies, from the 1940s and there is a whole chapter on how my blondes should dress. They say fair-haired girls look good in sand-coloured clothes. I'm always trying to persuade my girlfriend (very blonde) to wear beige clothes on this basis and she's not convinced, but I think it looks cute.
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They probably disapprove of grey, correct? Hitchcock had to fight Edith Head (head of costume department) to get Kim Novak to wear pale grey for Vertigo, as it went against the diktats of the time. As we know, the results were memorable. I'd encourage Laïka to find the exact colour, it might marry suprinsingly well with her complexion.
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dontbecruel, I have heard that as well, mostly from well educated sales associates. Those old manuals also say that blondes should never wear all black, because it makes them look like floating heads. [:^)] I know the look your talking about though--I've seen very pale blondes looking very striking in beige. I'm more honey-colored, so the effect is a bit different.
Fuuma, is that a no? What do you think an alternative/better color for a trench would be? I was thinking dove grey, which has a bit of brown in it...
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No for me, unless it?s a great deal and you?re very confident you can dye the coat. The cut is superlative though, men?s fashion is so much more restrictive as to shape. If your hair is honeyed that kind of beige will make you look like you?re in 1870, wearing your husband?s colonial outfit and mingling with the savages, oh the weight of the white man?s burden!
I?d say shades of grey, green or black (always works for me, no matter the hair colour) would make this coat look good. You might also consider off-white if you were tempted by something paler, it would work a lot better than beige.
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