Black or charcoal - only in the context of a summer blazer (odd jacket)

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Originally Posted by tiger489

black linen is awesome..

I am not convinced. It seems like a bit of a contradiction. I love linen, but for me linen is summer and need summer colours. Not that you cannot wear black in summer. But it is not a summer colour and I find black linen a bit weird. It is not yet on my shopping list.

 

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Originally Posted by Mr. White

The proper color for grey has always been a medium grey--not charcoal. Grey is the color of bland, corporation men and soulless government functionaries. A man in a grey suit is a warning to not associate with this person except for the 30 seconds you have to do business with him.

Some years ago, corporations started pushing the propaganda that they are innovators, seats of knowledge and culture, centers of research, and such nonsense. Corporation men started wearing gawdy gangster pinstripes; grey became darker and darker as if by becoming almost black the corporation look could almost be mistaken for formal wear--as if a day in the rat race was the high point of the social season.

So if you wear medium to light grey, especially a bit baggy with a Fedora, you're 1940s retro and dazzling. All the corporation men are trying to fool themselves into believing that they have charisma, consoling themselves by marching in lockstep in their charcoal uniforms.

Black is perfectly fine for the same reason: the dull and unimaginative corporation men don't dare to actually wear black and mock the baseness of their existence. But to do so, they'd first have to admit a willing whoredom too deplorable to fathom.

Generally speaking, I'd reserve black in summer for the third all-day rainy day in a row, or for an unusual cool snap. California doesn't present such opportunities, so I never wear black April through October.

Well, I always wondered why "corporation men" are not supposed to have charisma... I have met people with charisma in all sorts of places. And met people in "charismatic" professions who, once you get close to them, well, surprise you (maybe not so much) being real jerks. A jerk is a jerk, dressing gray or black.

 

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Originally Posted by apropos

Wow.

Well, that is what I thought getting towards the end of the post. And then I saw that I was not alone...

 

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Originally Posted by manofstyle

You can wear darker colours without resorting to black.

I agree. And if I finally decide not taking the black ( I just realised that this expression is not an SF one but a George R.R. Martin one; sorry) I may end up starting a new thread on this subject...