Capital Kiwi wrote :
Having so many words for colours may appear sophisticated, but everyone, and I mean everyone has a markedly different mental rendering of each named colour. It's plain inefficient. It's also what gives the language its charm ... And here's me thinkin' that it was all a plot by the fashion industry!
Last year's "pomegranate" dress is out of date and this year we must have "red grapefruit!"
Last year's lavender-blue is this year's periwinkle !!!
I pay attention to that sort of thing ... after 12 years of navy blue, shapeless, itchy, serge uniforms required by the school I attended, I swore to be a slave to fashion!
It seems to me that color/colour is sometimes the only thing that distinguishes one year's fashion from the next.
And it all comes around... the current cropped pants fad (body clinging mid-calf length pant) is a re-hash of the 1948's pedal pushers!
Personally, I am waiting for peasant blouses to return. Sadly the sand in my hour-glass figure has run to the bottom but the shoulders are still good!
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