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#1 2010-11-23 07:23:33
- Hard Bop Hank
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Beige
I think it's a nice colour, or rather a spectrum of colours, somewhere between white and a light brown...
I know there's not much love for beige, Kingstonian mentioned "pensioneer beige", John Gall talked about not getting layed in a beige sweater...
but IMHO there are a lot of nice variations of beige:
off white, cream, ecru, natural, ivory, sand, khaki, tan, fawn...
Isn't it an essential Ivy colour?
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#3 2010-11-23 08:04:23
- St Domingo
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Re: Beige
I too like a bit of beige, but there is a huge amount of cultural prejudice against it. And much of this negativity is justified - a day trip to an English Heritage property reminds one of the dreadful dreariness of the greater lumpen British middle class - all pallid skin, steel grey hair, beige polycotton casuals, and those welded shoes with Velcro straps. One has to know ones enemies, or perhaps to be more precise, what not to be. If one defines oneself as much by what one doesn't want to be as what one does, then one does not wear much beige. I rather admire young Harpo's pictures on here but find his attachment to sheepskin coats and beige worrying...
#4 2010-11-23 08:06:14
- esquire
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Re: Beige
A versatile spectrum of colour's.
Bad idea though, to fashion an entire outfit from. Thaid said, it can be made to work, and not look like a pensioner.
#6 2010-11-23 08:27:52
- farrago
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Re: Beige
I recently nabbed an old, old, old BB in "stone." It's darker than ecru, lighter than khaki, and from a certain perspective has a grayish cast. It's in damn fine shape, too.
The shade of ecru can vary as well, depending on the shirt maker. Rather than being caught up in prejudices and whatever societal values you may feel are being cast, go ahead and experiment.
#7 2010-11-23 08:40:31
- Chip
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Re: Beige
Absolutely!
Stone and Khaki chinos
Ecru buttondowns
Camel jackets (in cord or camel hair)
Tan G9s, Duffles, and Macs
Sand, Taupe, Cola, etc. Desert Boots
The list goes on and on.
Last edited by Chip (2010-11-23 08:45:55)
It's simple.
#8 2010-11-23 08:51:42
- Chip
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Re: Beige
In fact I'd put it right up there with Navy, Olive, and Gray in its importance to the look.
I'm an American however. I'd apparently be a retired Geography teacher to some here (and at the ripe ol' age of twenty-six).
Last edited by Chip (2010-11-23 09:01:22)
It's simple.
#9 2010-11-23 09:24:05
- Rip Rig & Panic
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Re: Beige
I'm wearing beige right now: L.L. Bean cords as it happens. Better, perhaps, below the waist than above. I'm wearing a navy cashmere v-neck sweater over a fraying B.D. Baggie university stripe. Comfy. The Grenfell golf jacket eris and I both own is beige (more or less). I may sell mine on.
People should lay off Harpo. He always looks very sharp to my eyes.
#11 2010-11-23 09:28:00
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Re: Beige
Greetings, Chip. Nice to have another American on board.
#12 2010-11-23 09:53:05
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Beige
Welcome here! nice "how to..." picture! Crew Cut by Brooks, huh?
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#13 2010-11-23 10:01:07
- Harpo
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Re: Beige
Yes, welcome Chip - hope you'll enjoy the forum.
I think with beige (or any colour, come to that) but especially beige it's important to to mix the bottom and top colour - to avoid that "wall of beige look".
As you say Rip - beige bottoms with with navy knitwear works well. Also, swapping it around, that beige shetland v-neck I've got, worn over Levis is good. I like light shades of shetland from greys, mushrooms to off whites. I'm wearing a mid-blue one at the moment and it's hard to get it to work with jeans, unless they're really faded.
Randy lower-class trifler
#14 2010-11-23 10:08:34
- Chip
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Re: Beige
Thanks for the welcome, fellas.
Hank
LOL! Good eye. The pic's from an old Playboy article if I remember correctly (once posted on The Ivy League Look) poking a bit of fun at the Brooks Brothers man (every single label, including the haircut, is "Brooks Brothers").
Harpo
You're right on. Best to avoid the "wall of beige".
It's simple.
#15 2010-11-23 11:04:28
- The Laird of Enfield
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Re: Beige
Billy Connelly often speaks of the "wee beige jobbie" in somewhat glowin' terms.
#16 2010-11-23 13:32:43
- woofboxer
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Re: Beige
As Harpo says, the key with beige is to lift it with a strong or brightly coloured item, maybe a red and white stripe shirt.
'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'.
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#18 2010-11-24 02:57:56
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Beige
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#20 2010-11-24 14:57:39
- Patrick
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Re: Beige
When Michael Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts, ran for president Mark Shields said when Dukakis went on a tear he "painted the town beige."
Otter : Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon : I thought you were pre-med.
Otter : What's the difference?
#22 2010-11-24 15:49:25
- formby
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Re: Beige
Austin Allegro beige, now that's a colour. 
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#23 2010-11-25 06:29:04
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Re: Beige
Last edited by Compared To What? (2010-11-25 07:28:52)
Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?
Fuck off! We're the People's Front of Judea
#25 2010-11-25 09:48:48
- Harpo
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Re: Beige
Nurse, the largactyl!
Randy lower-class trifler