# I hate being a redhead! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 5, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970 "2001-04-05T19:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/21 "2001-04-06T14:09:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > > Moving ? Because the right colours aren’t fashionable ?? :eek: > > Chap’s, we might share the same planet with them but beyond that………I just don’t know! > > Anyone think my feet look big in brown ? > > \*\* Chap’s? What’s that? Sorry, not getting it. And people have moved for lesser reasons, you know! Does ask for cites, I just made that up so I’d have a retort. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/22 "2001-04-06T14:17:03Z")
Oops, that should be _Don’t_ ask for cites… ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/23 "2001-04-06T14:40:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > tell you what. If you get the new job, I’ll spend an entire day going shopping with you. even shoe shopping. > \*\* Slippery as a snake in the grass, Sir ? 😃 Heloise – Like drought, famine, pestilence…that kind of thing ? ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sweet\_Walter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Walter)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/24 "2001-04-06T15:58:52Z")
Ruadh, Don’t feel compelled to tow the line with fashion. Powder blue and Pink?!?!? You guys really need to get a handle on your Crack problem over there. I imagine you wearing a nice rich olive color. Oh, and add me to your fan club. Please stay red. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sweet\_Walter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Walter)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/25 "2001-04-06T16:03:58Z")
Ruadh, Don’t feel compelled to tow the line with fashion. Powder blue and Pink?!?!? You guys really need to get a handle on your Crack problem over there. I imagine you wearing a nice rich olive color. Oh, and add me to your fan club. Please stay red. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sweet\_Walter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Walter)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/26 "2001-04-06T16:24:43Z")
Ruadh, Don’t feel compelled to tow the line with fashion. Powder blue and Pink?!?!? You guys really need to get a handle on your Crack problem over there. I imagine you wearing a nice rich olive color. Oh, and add me to your fan club. Please stay red. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sweet\_Walter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Walter)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/27 "2001-04-06T16:31:38Z")
::: stupid submit button ::: ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/28 "2001-04-06T17:41:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*tell you what. If you get the new job, I’ll spend an entire day going shopping with you. even shoe shopping. > \*\* Wow, Twisty, that’s terribly generous of you. However, I have to admit to absolutely _hating_ shopping. We’ll spend the day in the pub instead 🙂 Yojimbo, that link reminds me, there’s a whole bunch more LondonDope photos waiting to go up. Now where is Tracy’s email address??? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/29 "2001-04-06T19:01:09Z")
**ruadh** , My hair’s darker than yours, but here are some colors that work for me (besides forest green and brown): Yellow Peach (my personal fave) Purple Sage or ash green (this color has been popular in the US for a couple years now, and I have two suits this color) Any shade of blue other than the really light ones I could always mail you my forest green wool blazer! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/30 "2001-04-06T19:24:38Z")
Yellow? Good God, does _anyone_ look good in yellow? ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/31 "2001-04-06T19:35:04Z")
I have a friend that is not only a redhead, but creative and talented. She just makes a lot of her favorite stuff. I think she rocks… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/32 "2001-04-06T21:38:11Z")
Sage would look good. And, to paraphrase **Twisty** , tell you what. If you get the new job, I’ll spend an entire day going underwear shopping with you. There, the contrast between white and, um, your natural color would be very nice. I think. But I’d have to make sure. Yeah, that would DEFINITELY be worth airfare to Dublin! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/33 "2001-04-06T23:22:04Z")
[fashion hijack] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sweet Walter multiple times \* > \*\*Ruadh, > Don’t feel compelled to tow the line with fashion. Powder blue and Pink?!?!? You guys really need to get a handle on your Crack problem over there. > > I imagine you wearing a nice rich olive color. > > Oh, and add me to your fan club. Please stay red. \*\* Are you saying that the pastel colours aren’t all the rage where you are? You can’t swing a cat in Calgary without hitting a pastel suit jacket, and we are generally acknowledged to be way behind in fashion trends 🙂 [/fashion hijack] ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/34 "2001-04-07T03:03:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > **You can’t swing a cat in Calgary without hitting a pastel suit jacket, and we are generally acknowledged to be way behind in fashion trends** Um, pastels went out down here in about 1965, so I’d say you were right. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/35 "2001-04-07T11:54:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*Yellow? Good God, does _anyone_ look good in yellow? \*\* I look quite alluring in yellow, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/36 "2001-04-07T21:24:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > [http://eurodopers.homestead.com/ruadhtuadh.html](http://eurodopers.homestead.com/ruadhtuadh.html) > > A link for anybody who hasn’t had the pleasure of meeting the fair **ruadh** in person. Shit, ruadh, you’d completely be able to pull off a light blue. Throw a solid, light-grey jacket over it, and boo-yaa. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/37 "2001-04-07T21:48:25Z")
After veiwing the photos from the link, I am of the opinion that **ruadh** would look devastating in just about any color outfit. WOW! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/38 "2001-04-08T03:04:49Z")
Thanks spooje 🙂 but well, you’re wrong. London\_Calling? Sweetie? I have a bone to pick with you [sub]ooo er[/sub] > [@](#): > > Moving ? Because the right colours aren’t fashionable ?? > > Chap’s, we might share the same planet with them but beyond that………I just don’t know! manhattan made exactly the same suggestion a few posts earlier. You didn’t slag **him** for it. And please note the emphasis on the word “him”. Defend yourself, mate! [sub]PS Tottenham 2 Arsenal 1[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/39 "2001-04-08T21:44:45Z")
> [@](#): > > **(spooje)** After veiwing the photos from the link, I am of the opinion that ruadh would look devastating in just about any color outfit. > > **(ruadh)** Thanks spooje 🙂 but well, you’re wrong. I clicked the link too, and **ruadh,** you’d look spectacular wrapped in newspaper. Have you considered denim? Mmmm, a redhead in denim. I must log off now for a few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/40 "2001-04-08T22:53:53Z")
I am a redhead. Auburn-head is probably more precise. And pastels look hideous on me, although I have been known to wear them when I’m having a low-self-esteem day. I don’t wear much red, either, because I’m fair-skinned, and red totally washes me out (but in my pic on the People Pages, I’m wearing the only article of red clothing that looks halfway decent on me. Go figure). Yellow? NOT. Looks so bad on me that people think I’m ill when I’m standing near someone _else_ that’s wearing yellow. Oy. Someone needs to open a store just for redheads. “The Green and Brown Store.” I’d shop there. A lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970.md?page=3)