# Does anyone else tend to wear only one or two colours? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557 "2006-11-23T16:12:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Squeaker\_Snow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Squeaker\_Snow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squeaker_Snow)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/41 "2006-11-25T03:08:50Z")
Yes. Most of my wardrobe consists of black and red. White ranging from driven-snow white to eggshell is okay as well. I wear a strand of pearls as a “signature” piece and they’re off-white. It makes getting dressed and co-ordinated very easy. I wear red lipstick and nail polish (fingers and toes). I also have two pairs of red eyeglasses. Even my car is red and black. Come to think of it, so is the coffeemaker. Our dog is black and white… Uh, I’m weirding myself out. Tomorrow I’m going to buy something blue. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/42 "2006-11-25T13:44:33Z")
In my younger days being tall meant having to wear mens clothes, and men apparently only wear black or shades of blue, so 99% of my wardrobe was blue. Latterly [thanks to the internet] I’ve been able to buy women’s clothes, and the mens dept. tend to stock other colours - I bought a lovely pink cable knit jumper last year - so my wardrobe looks a lot more colourful now. I avoid pastels usually cos I tend to look “washed out” in them, pink for some reason is the exception ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/43 "2006-11-25T15:56:25Z")
With a few exceptions, very nearly everything in my closet is either black or red (tending towards burgundy/wine/deep red). I’ve got a khaki SPAM t-shirt, a couple random navy blue t-shirts, and a couple of baseball shirts (white body, black sleeves) with my business logo on the back. Otherwise, everything else is black or red. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/44 "2006-11-25T16:05:52Z")
It’s funny–imagining what’s in my wardrobe, I completely ignored the pants. I guess I do wear bluejeans, and I’ve got a pair of snow camo pants that are sort of my “work uniform” for my business. At my day job, I used to try and dress in a business casual manner, but 1) I can’t dress and 2) I hate to wear colors, which this sort of necessitated. I kept trying to buy colored polo shirts and change it up so it didn’t look like I wore the exact same thing every day. Then at some point a light went on, and I bought ten sets of scrubs. Awesome. Not only does it feel like I go to work in jammies every day, but I can dress almost exactly the same every single day, and no one will ever notice. I can go two weeks without doing work-related laundry, instead of washing my same two pairs of khakis every couple of days. They’re actually different, solid dark colors (no prints, shudder), but in such a way that I can grab any random scrub top with any random scrub pants and it’s an almost guaranteed match. _Sweet_. Now, I just need to convince the entire world to adopt scrubs as a world uniform. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/45 "2006-11-25T20:36:10Z")
My closet holds mostly black, blue and purple. I also snap up anything in deep reds because that colour suits me. Lately though I have branched out a little and added some browns, green and even an orange shirt to my closet! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/46 "2006-11-27T03:25:50Z")
I have clothes of many colours. But I don’t take them on vacation. If I am going away, since space is limited, I tend to stick to black, white and blue. Just makes it easier to match stuff up. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/47 "2006-11-27T05:03:27Z")
My closet is kinda dark. I favor blue jeans, black or grey dress pants. I have a pair of white flood pants I adore and look great on me when I’m tan but I am terrified to wear them. I’ve had them for 16 months and I’ve worn them twice. I also skipped on the awesome white blazer from Express for the same reason - I ruin white stuff. Like someone else said earlier, I don’t do a “white load” on laundry day. A lot of my “going out” tops are black. If I wear a black blazer I’ll wear some color for the undershirt. I absolutely hate red, yellow, orange, and purple. I do have a few pink shirts, some light green (like toned down kelly green), a lot of blue, some grey. And I love stripes! I have tons of striped button downs and polos. I steal them from the guy friends all the time too. But black is still my favorite color to wear. I don’t do the monochrome thing though. It’s often too hard to “match blacks” because I buy clothes sporadically and hold on to my favorites too long. I have blonde hair, I’m not super pale and have black framed glasses, so I dig black shirts and stuff. My coat is black. My two most favored pairs of sneakers are black, although not all black (Pumas and Chucks). When I wear an outfit that has a lot of black and no other dominant colors (like all black on top with jeans and black shoes) I’ll usually throw on a turquoise colored blacelet or something. But I keep it pretty plain. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/48 "2006-11-27T14:44:22Z")
With less than a dozen exceptions, everything in my closet is blue or gray. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/49 "2006-11-27T14:54:57Z")
My closet has lots of color in it. Probably the colors I have the least of are blue, green, and pink, though they’re certainly there in small doses. I have lots of yellow, black, gray, cream, brown, orange, and shades of red. I do tend to go in streaks where I wear mostly black or mostly brown. This time of year, I usually wear black pants, brown pants, or jeans, and then some coordinating color on top. Some weeks I find I reach more for the brown and other weeks more for the black. This is a black week. In the summer I don’t wear as much black and wear a lot of khaki pants. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/50 "2006-11-27T15:46:10Z")
I wear black and grey almost exclusively with a little bit of white for contrast. Lots of variations like tweed and plaid skirts or striped shirts (not together tho’). The only colors I wear are my pink nails and the occasional pink shoe. I’m just not comfortable wearing anything bright. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/51 "2006-11-27T19:43:33Z")
I wear a lot of blue. My dryer lint is always a sort of gray-blue color. I generally stay away from light colors, because I’m a messy eater and they show food spills too well. Definitely no white, because that shows everything you spill on it, and sometimes even shows my bra under it (tacky tacky tacky). ---
**Author:** ![InappropriateHumor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@InappropriateHumor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InappropriateHumor)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/52 "2006-11-27T22:03:33Z")
I tend to look like a cadaver in pastels, olive greens and browns. Once when I was wearing an olive uniform, my EMT buddy told me he had coded people with better color. Flatterer. Therefore, my closet is mostly black, grey and red, with a bit of white here and there. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/53 "2006-11-28T04:02:37Z")
I cook a lot, and I learned a long time ago that grease stains show much, much less on black. White gets dirty far too easily. My dryer lint is always gray-green-reddish, depending on the ratio of my clothes to Mr. Lissar’s. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/54 "2006-11-28T17:37:38Z")
Well I did not buy 99% of the stuff in my closet, so they’re a bunch of different colors. Pants, though - those I bought - blue jeans/black dress pants. If I had my druthers, I’d probably wear mostly brown and blue. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/55 "2006-11-28T18:34:31Z")
In public: Pants: khaki, brown, black, blue jeans Shirts: blue and black My one burst of color is my winter coat which is RED! A real departure for me since red shirts make me look sallow. And white is right out for any garment. This partly because I am fat and not excited about buying clothes, and dark shirts make me look not quite as fat. When I was thinner I bought bright colors in shirts, but still stuck with “uniform” pants in khaki. My sleepy clothes are all different bright colors, though! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/56 "2006-11-28T18:44:50Z")
I do tend to wear blue jeans a lot, and favor dark color non-buttoning shirts–turtlenecks, Ts, and so on–so I have to answer yes, sort of, at least from the hips down. ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebecca_DiMwitter)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557/57 "2006-11-28T19:13:12Z")
I love black, and wear a lot of it, at least as a top for jeans (which I live in!). In the summer I love white, and wear a lot of IT. My other big favorite is red, which I have in a wide array of shades. I will wear pink (ok on pale blondes like me) or lavendars if I want to change up a bit, but mostly stick to black and white and occasionally red. What I will absolutely NOT wear these days is prints of just about any kind. I buy solid color sweaters, shirts, slacks & shoes. I will wear a print skirt now and again, with a solid top, or the jeans with (some) embroidery on them, but that is it. The days of striped sweaters, paisley shirts or two-tone shoes is gone, gone, gone! –Beck [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-tend-to-wear-only-one-or-two-colours/381557.md?page=2)