# When were "flesh" colored Crayolas discontinued?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 17, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-flesh-colored-crayolas-discontinued/207909 "2003-10-17T01:35:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-flesh-colored-crayolas-discontinued/207909/41 "2003-10-20T18:40:14Z")

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Heh. When I was in preschool in 1968 I had been given a Superman coloring book and a lousy 8-pack of crayolas. Having neither peach nor flesh, I use the brown “cudder” on Superman’s face. My teacher found it amusing that I had done a “Negro Superman”.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-flesh-colored-crayolas-discontinued/207909/42 "2003-10-20T19:26:50Z")

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If it helps… As a boy in the '80s, I remember seeing both “flesh” and “peach” crayons occasionally, and used both for coloring skin… But my mom’s a penny-pincher, and we always had whichever brand of crayons was cheapest, sometimes Crayola, sometimes not, usually hand-me-downs or school leftovers. So it seems probable to me that some other company kept using “flesh” even after Crayola switched to “peach”.

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**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-flesh-colored-crayolas-discontinued/207909/43 "2003-10-20T20:57:11Z")

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Ken Nordine did an album in 1966 called [Colors](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70307291625&sql=A34jteaz04x07) which he talks about the “color” flesh.

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> “Some people think the only color flesh should be is the color their flesh happens to be but you and I know that the proper color flesh should be is the color that it is.”

The album is pretty cool and I would like to pardon my hijack after the fact.

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