J Crew classic satin ballet flats in Pale Peacock and Toasted Honey

[cimorene]

Sometimes I want to crash the national convention of professional color namers and smack them all with a giant wet, scaly dead fish, you know?

Comments

[mrkinch]

I do! I do.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

Mom tells me that when I was little, my favorite game was looking through clothing catalogs and laughing hysterically at the color names. "Deep Regent? NOOOOO, that's BLUE!" 4-year-old me would have strongly supported your wet fish proposal.

[dorothy1901]

I will get you that giant wet, scaly, dead fish if you will help me out against the wine reviewers who describe their wines as tasting like any kind of animal, vegetable or mineral except grapes. To them, a wine can have hints of mulberry, oak and seaweed, but never, ever taste of grape.

[krait]

B-b-but! I love colour names! :D I always thought I would like to be the person at Crayola who's responsible for coming up with names for crayon colours, because I am picky and I do see the distinctions between Royal Blue and Midnight Blue and between Red-Orange and Orange-Red.

[foursweatervests]

I would call them "Green" and "Yellow". I know, I know, far too descriptive and fanciful, but I like them!