blue is my first choice!

nice buttery yellow as a second choice

red

spring green ...... mmmmmmmmmmmm....... 

That most early spring green of baby leaves 

Rita

Greeny-blues.  Teal, turquoise, etc.

Green - except for lime and neon

I also tend to like earthy colors: rust, brown, wheat-gold

purple

Years ago I had my 'colours' done.  I'm a winter.  That means that I look best dressed in bright primary colours - reds and blues, black and white.  Nothing muted or earth-toned.  

"But," I objected, "My favourite colour is violet."

"It might be your favourite to look at. But it is not the colour you should wear."

So, without being OCD about it, I try to remember to look for 'winter' colours when I buy clothes. But my favourite colour can be anywhere on the spectrum.

It changes from time to time. Blue is probably an all time favourite. But right now I'm drawn to a soft moss green. I love to see myself surrounded by green - green seems to be the colour of life itself.

LOL at Seeler-I'm also a winter in my skin tones-You CAN wear puple just a pure (not muted) shade!

As a teen my favourite colour was orange-but it's a colour that does not look good on me.

Green tones as well - with a hint of blue.  Forest green.

Blue is second favourite.  Like earth tones.   No reds, black, yellow or white.

I most like blues and greens and my clothing tends to be in the shades of those colors that I most enjoy. Muted greens not neon or bright spring green.  Muted blues rather than gaudy peacock.

I haven't heard of 'having one's colors done'.  What exactly does that mean seeler?

I think it was in the '80s or there-abouts.  I was working in a downtown office.  The buzz was all about making an appointment and going out during your noon-hour and getting your colours done.  There were several places - mostly I think connected with beauty parlors.  The expert (I don't know where they got their training) surrounded you with neutral background, pulled your hair back from your face, held up swatches of colour - if I remember right the client looked in a mirror.  Gradually the expert and the client came up with a chart or profile that told you which colours best suited you.  They were named by the seasons:   spring had lilac, peach, beige, cream and olive, and other soft colours - summer also had soft colours but more of the primary colours.  Fall was like spring but stronger - orange, rust and brown seemed to be prominent.  And winter - my colour - was bright, deep, primary.   We were told things like - don't just go by hair colour.  A blond with brown or hazel eyes and muted skin tones might be spring while a blond with blue eyes and pink cheeks might be summer.  Brunettes might be either fall or winter.  Red-heads almost always fall, but a few were spring. 

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After having our colours done, we were given a little sample book to carry in our purses when shopping. It had samples of all the colours we could consider. (some shades of red would be winter - the deep, true reds; but tomato red would be fall, and a bluish red might be summer. I even had a brown - but it was very dark - no chocolate brown for a winter.
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Some people took it very seriously. I knew one young woman who gave away almost her entire wardrobe when she discovered that she was Fall.
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I was past the age of worrying about it, but young girls thinking about getting married were told that only 'winters' should wear anything really white. Other brides should choose something with a hint of cream to soften the harsh brittleness of white.

I went with a friend to a "colour consultant" to get my colours done(she worked out of her basement.. It was the laye 80s. Similar process to Seeler except we were given a swatch thing-like a small paint sample book of our colours.

So as winter I can wear a blue-red but not an orange red.

Makes me wonder where my swatches are.

(seeler editted her post-she expanded it-that's why my comments don't quite fit)

Many of those are now based on questionaires.  I find they fall all over the place though.  Just knowing what colours look good on me, I'm a fall, regardless of the colour of my veins and the other stuff that tends to go with.

I don't like all of the fall colours - the burnt oranges and some of the olive greens.  Brown isn't a favourite, although I do wear it often.  Burgendy and plumb works.  I think most people also look good in jewel tones, I like those for dresses.  I do look good in a dark or bright teal whereas a turquoise can wash me out.  I wear both anyway, but I do have more teal than turquoise.  When it's just a t-shirt I don't care too much.

I didn't get a stark white wedding dress, I didn't think it suited me.  My dress was ivory, although I wouldn't have gone white if it was fairly dark.  It was a very white ivory, it was hard to tell if it wasn't up against something that was stark white.

I think peacock can be really pretty and not gaudy.  What makes you think it's gaudy Kay?

Pumpkin

In the 80's my friend had the swatches (she was a winter) . . . and everytime she visited and we went shopping she pulled out her little packet.  She wouldn't buy anything if it didn't fit in her colours.

Blue is my all-time, every-thing, favorite colour.  Not only in clothes, but in everything.  Except walls, I would never paint my walls blue.  But I am drawn to blue in clothing, household items, vehicles, objects, anything.  I love blue!

Dcn. Jae - do you wear a lot of pumpkin?

Emerald green - ever since my much-loved Nana said, "It's YOUR colour, Chris."

I tend towards bright, primary colours likes reds and yellows or neutrals, esp. black. I'm badly colour blind, so I suspect that's why I tend the way I do. Odd shades, esp. in the blue-violet and green-brown ranges just don't resolve correctly for me.

Mendalla

chemgal - likely we understand the word 'gaudy' differently.  To me it means that it is a strong collor, neon would be like that too, and fire engine red - colors that really stand out saying Look at me.

It is an interesting question - I've just remembered that my older relatives, many years ago used 'gaudy' to describe colors they regarded as  'trashy'.

The rosy pink of dawn on a clear day coming…

Thanks Kay.  It's not a term I hear very often, I've only known it to mean something like tasteless and showy.

Blue... no---- AAAARRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrggggghhhhh

What's wrong with blue, Witch?

Hi Beloved,

Witch would answer but he is busy being hurled from the bridge of death.

Grace and peace to you.

John

Blue has never particularly been a favorite of mine either. Too mundane.

Actually, I quite like some shades of blue. Again, a pure blue (which is a primary colour) as opposed to a blue-green or similar shades.

Mendalla

My Favorite Color is: All the Colors of the Rainbow!

*Peace*    ~ ~

Wolfie

Bringing up the "Favorite Colour" thread in case anyone who enters the Virtual Santa thread wants to check out their person's favorite colour.

My favorite colour is still blue !

I really don't have a favourite colour, but when i was a kid I really liked bright yellow - so my virtual Santa can go with that one!

I can handle teal.

My favourite dress of all time was a teal fake-suede dress with an empire waste, full skirt and square neckline, long sleeves.  It has a medieval look to it and was lovely.  My mom was a seamstress and the pattern was from Vogue.

Seeler, my cousin introduced us to having our colours done.  Mom had hers done, then I had mine done.  I was a Fall. I'm thinking Mom was spring, but she might have been summer. I had the foldout swatches of fabric. They came in handy for picking clothes to go with things.

My favourite colours to wear include:  gold, burgundy, teal

I love a room that has greens and browns.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!   We just went through that whole skit with my brother & his kids the other day :)  Love Monty Python!

I'm always and forever in love with pink.  Mike Paterson nailed it with his reference to the skies.  

And, I'm firmly a summer, in terms of the colour thing.  My mom took me a long to one of those parties and I had my little summer booklet of colours.  It doesn't take long before you just know what works and what doesn't.  No rusty colours on me.

I like all colours :)

My employer's official corporate colour is a teal and our marketing team is perpetually cursing the inability of most printers to reproduce it correctly, even if they support Pantone (it has a Pantone code).

Mendalla

Hah Mendella, I sit by the marketing group in canada for our corporation and have learned a lot about particular red and grey, .....

grue is pretty neet

durple is quite unique (still looking)

one of my favourites is the colour of sunshine tessellated through gently moving water

or peacock ore

or that colour that my favourite mineral Wulfenite is heir to

so many to choose from

The news is just out... the new Pantone Color of the Year is... Radiant Orchid.

I am so sick of some of these weird colour names. Call it what it is folks. "Radiant Orchid" tells me nothing about where it falls on the spectrum which is ultimately what I need to know.

Oh, and adding cute adjectives to colours doesn't really do much for me either. My Honda CR-V is "Nighthawk Black Pearl". I'm sorry, folks, but it is glossy black, pure and simple. I'm not going to buy a car simply because the company's marketing geniuses have given "glossy black" a cool, trademarkable name.

[/rant off]

Mendalla

Mendalla,

now you've done it; i've got this image now of you dressed in pirate garb, driving your cool black CR-V at night, waylaying/helping innocent passersbye...

:3

Damn. My secret is out.

Mendalla