The Color Purple

[kybearfuzz]

I know it's FYFF, but I'm at work and can't really do that. I did take a pic though and there's fur in it :) I saw the photo and it reminded me of a newly discovered quirk.

When I was in high school, I didn't have many clothes. Not a sob story here, but my family was dirt poor and we made do with what we had. A large clothing budget wasn't there. I did have this purple shirt I bought that I loved. I wore it through high school, then college, and I still have it (this isn't it). I loved how the color looked with jeans.

After growing up and getting a job, I turned into what a friend coined the other day as a clothing whore. I don't think it's necessarily true, but there could be a slight psychological issue there. What I need to do is weed out the closets more often of what I don't wear.

Last night, my buddy Tim and I went to dinner and then walked around Dillard's. I found a couple of shirts I liked and we started talking about what we wear to work. When I described how I put my work clothes out and together, usually a lighter shirt with darker pants (excluding khakis and jeans), he remarked, "You mean you dress monochomatic?"

I was about to say no, but the more I thought about it, the answer tends to be yes (at least in terms of work clothes). Shades of color are easier to throw together than complimentary colors -- light green shirt with dark green pants, light blue shirt with dark blue pants, gray shirt with black pants -- I tend to do that, though not all the time. In a morning rush, such matching is easy to do. I guess I just never gave it a great deal of consideration until it was pointed out to me.

Am I alone here, or do some of you guys do that too?

Comments

[dewittar.livejournal.com]

I have to wear business dress for work so I'm usually in a suit or dress pants and jacket. I have very few solid color shirts except for polos. My best color range used to be greens and burgundy. Now that my hair has gone mostly white my better colors are in the blue and pink range. My clothes fetish is cuff links. Most of my dress shirts have French cuffs and I love wearing these shirts with jeans and dress shoes when I can.