And I don't know where I am goin' to

[austin_dern]

I found a nice, light grey shirt today. As with much of my life, this made me notice a new incompetency: it made me realize almost all my clothes are a dark blue-grey, sometimes black. This isn't because I only have dark shirts and shorts; it's just, somehow, everything I wear ends up like that. I had a couple light grey and tan shorts, but they went missing or (in two cases) the buttons snapped off. The lighter shirts I have no idea where they went. Most of my clothes are solid colors, showing the limits of my imagination, but I realize that I do have two striped shirts that seem to obey an exclusivity principle: I can find the green striped shirt, or the red striped shirt, but never both at the same time. I don't know what I'm doing wrong in washing clothes that everything averages out or flees.

My worst fashion mistake ever was years ago, when I had somehow a red pair of sweatpants, and an orange-red sweatshirt. They, now that I think about it, averaged their colors together, and one winter day I actually went out of my dorm room wearing both, so I looked like I was in a spectacularly awful late 70s science fiction movie. Fortunately I caught a reflection of myself in a dorm window, and went back to change. You can imagine how horrid it had to look that I realized how awful I looked. I think that may have been when I -- it'd have to be subconsciously -- started going to blues and blacks.

Trivia: The Gemini capsule computer had up to 99 accessible memory addresses. Source: Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience, James E. Tomayko. NASA contractor report 182505.

Currently Reading: Profiles of the Future (1984), Arthur C Clarke.

Comments

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

Just a couple days ago, I was lamenting the loss of the 80's aesthetic; shameless display of solid neon colors. Way back when, I had a trio of t-shirts, neon pink, neon orange, and neon green, and I absolutely loved those things to death. I still loved 'em when they became pastel from so many washings. Of course, I never tried to wear any of them with pants that were anything but blue or black denim....

Red and orange would be a bit much, yes.... and I certainly have had times where I finished dressing only to realize that there had been a cruel joke played on me somewhere along the line, and that a change of clothes was in order. I think that's why my wardrobe is predominantly, black, purple, and a bit of teal here and there. They've vivid, friendly colors that can still look reasonably mature. (I let them do the work for me.)

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Now, neon, I've never attempted outside a Livejournal icon, I suspect because there's a personality type that can wear a neon shirt, and there's a personality type who sounds like Bob Newhart, and I know which type I am.

At least the clothes homogenizing themselves makes it easier to dress respectably. I couldn't get a clash of colors if I tried.

[natasha-nelson.livejournal.com]

... a red pair of sweatpants, and an orange-red sweatshirt. ... I looked like I was in a spectacularly awful late 70s science fiction movie. Fortunately I caught a reflection of myself in a dorm window, and went back to change.

You mean you didn't think to put on a Gizmonic Institute badge and start referring to the professors as "sirs"? Tsk tsk.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

No; no, there's a limit to how much flesh should be covered in skin-clinging orange fabric, and I considerably exceed that limit.

[taxus.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have the same problem. The majority of my shirts are black, or dark blue. I have one green, one maroon for some odd reason, one holed grey shirt which are all pocket tees. I have two shirts that are black with amusing things written on them, then two shirts displaying my love for two diffrerent web comics. All my pants are black. My shoes are always black. And My jackests tend to be very dark as well.
Its so much easier when your clothes are dark. every matches. But its no fun when its hot out. or people faint because they think you're the devil.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Actually, dark isn't worse than light, in the heat. It's all blackbody radiation, to a first approximation. Even jackets aren't necessarily a bad idea: quite a few people in Singapore do wear jackets because they're (necessarily) just as good keeping the heat out as in. I think wearing that much is insane, but I can't deny that people wear perfectly good light winter coats and don't collapse from heat stroke.