Comments on: We never want to make sirenians uncomfortable

By: sumac

sumac — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:52:22 +0000

In reply to snarly. Highly practical idea. I remain basically Cage-colored year round, with an occasional touch of Nolte across the bridge of the nose, cheeks, forehead, and tops of shoulders if I am incautious while attending a baseball game.

By: snarly

snarly — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:43:25 +0000

In reply to tanita. Hey, let's dump "nude" and rename all the skin tones after celebrities, moving along the spectrum from Swinton to Snipes. Me, I am generally Bullock but get Kardashian in the summer.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:36:51 +0000

I was trying to read this while listening to someone complain about something on the phone. Inappropriate snorts ensued.

By: sumac

sumac — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:31:46 +0000

You are right! If “nude” is a color, so is “birthday suit.”

By: tanita

tanita — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:37:01 +0000

*snort*
My very literal and fifth-grader brain goes through this every time I see color descriptions – I mean “skin tone” has given way to “nude” and I always laugh that nudity is a color. And “ginger” – that Britishism elbowing onto the American scene – someone needs to look at these people’s plants if coppery red is the color of either what they sprinkle on their food or that they grate for their gingerbread… heather has ALWAYS been pink/purple and green, yet the fashion industry has ALWAYS insisted that it’s gray. I suppose in the dead of winter, during an ice storm, the underside of the leaf might indeed appear to be a dead matte gray… but then, so is everything else.

But, why are we asking the fashion industry to make sense when they can’t even agree on baseline sizes!? Let’s not get me started…