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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

You got me started on textures now, for I love contrasts in materials. I do not get on with cottons, wool or any course fibre, but much prefer the wearing of silk, velvet type material, and leather. Often it is I combine black leather with rust red silk, or black leather with claret coloured velvet. I want a forest green velvet shirt, but unless I get lucky at an Asian clothing store, they are kind of scarce.

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

You got me started on textures now, for I love contrasts in materials. I do not get on with cottons, wool or any course fibre, but much prefer the wearing of silk, velvet type material, and leather. Often it is I combine black leather with rust red silk, or black leather with claret coloured velvet. I want a forest green velvet shirt, but unless I get lucky at an Asian clothing store, they are kind of scarce.

I wear quite a bit of linen shirts and rayon dressses during the summer. If you want some nice velvet clothes I have links to several Gothic clothing sites.  If not for employer dress codes, I would be dressed in leather and velvet throughout the fall and winter. 


This is daily wear for me, but then I get away with it as I am just another oddball at Art college.

Art school is so much fun!


Though it is decadant, I just love the  more dramatic richer fabrics.

Yea for decadence!


Interesting though, loose dark clothing keeps one cooler in hot weather, cooler than white fabrics, due to the radiation effect.White or light reflects heat back to the body, whereas black absorbs heat from the body, the wind, takes the heat away, anything above 0.2 mph.

When on the beach or playa I have black for night but stick to light tank/short or sarongs during the daylight hours.

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

You got me started on textures now, for I love contrasts in materials. I do not get on with cottons, wool or any course fibre, but much prefer the wearing of silk, velvet type material, and leather. Often it is I combine black leather with rust red silk, or black leather with claret coloured velvet. I want a forest green velvet shirt, but unless I get lucky at an Asian clothing store, they are kind of scarce.

This is daily wear for me, but then I get away with it as I am just another oddball at Art college.

Though it is decadant, I just love the  more dramatic richer fabrics.

Interesting though, loose dark clothing keeps one cooler in hot weather, cooler than white fabrics, due to the radiation effect.White or light reflects heat back to the body, whereas black absorbs heat from the body, the wind, takes the heat away, anything above 0.2 mph.

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

On walking around my town yesterday, I for whatever reason started to notice what people wear, not the style they wear, but the colour, I noticed the most dominant colour was black and there began to wonder why, why is it people like to wear black. Now I wear black, most of the time, I ask myself why I wear black and though I can think of some reasons, they are not the over riding reason, I am just comfortable in black, but why ?

Has anyone else noticed what the dominant colour is amongst the people they live and work with, is it black, or is it a different colour ?

Those here, what colour do you wear  predominantly, do you have a reason for that colour, or is you are just comfortable, if you are comfortable, can  you say why ?

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ORIGINAL: beargonewild

Usually wear black or blue

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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

I just saw a very large, balding, middleaged man walking down the street in jeans, a blue and white polo shirt and a pink, shiny vinyl, Hello Kitty backpack on. I love this town!