Please have a go for us!!RWS wrote:Perhaps designers begin with a computer program which employs "Pantone" or a similar coloring system.
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Please have a go for us!!RWS wrote:Perhaps designers begin with a computer program which employs "Pantone" or a similar coloring system.
This goes to prove that it all depends on the execution, not just the ideastoreynicholas wrote:But it is so pleasantly diverting that, maybe, green suits should become the new navy blue - the next thing might be a 16 oz smokey, dark, olive green flannel with a smudged primrose yellow chalkstripe for the Cloth Club.Costi wrote:I like the idea!couch wrote:The above digression is what happens when you entertain the thought of green suits in town. That's the real reason for the prohibition.
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Yes, this is just the problem. I've worked a fair bit with Pantone chips (and at one time with colorimeters to record spectral information) and this sort of reference is not very good at approximating anything like a melange effect, or one where a hue only emerges perceptibly under specific intensities of illumination. I suspect five minutes with one of the weavers at Lovat Mill or one of the other Scottish producers alden has used would get us much closer. I've tried to imagine something between the effect of a really rich Oxford gray flannel and a high-quality loden Hubertus. I'd imagine blending the fibers into yarns and then testing finishes on woven cloth would take a few samples and a lot of experience. But I'll keep my eye open for anything remotely similar. Maybe Dr. Teplitz will run across such an oddity on his upcoming Tip Top trip. If so I hope he'll obtain a sample!Costi wrote:If anything this imaginary cloth should be a subtle melange of grey and olive, that no computer program of which I know can render. A solid colour cannot produce the effect couch describes: the cloth would look grey in dim or artificial light and only reveal its olive hues in bright daylight.
I think that this is very nearly exactly what I had in mind, earlier in the thread - do you think that it might be any use as a cream or even (maybe) a rusty chalk-stripe?yachtie wrote:No green for business is as dead as Hardy Aimes. It just has to be the right green:
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If they made such a cloth, I'd buy it. I do have a dark green SB with a blue pinstripe that also looks quite nice.storeynicholas wrote:I think that this is very nearly exactly what I had in mind, earlier in the thread - do you think that it might be any use as a cream or even (maybe) a rusty chalk-stripe?yachtie wrote:No green for business is as dead as Hardy Aimes. It just has to be the right green:
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My daugter has auburn hair and green eyes and instinctively seems to gravitate to dusty greens and grays and rust colours - and it works very well: Maybe the greenish-tinged gray with a rusty chalk-stripe or windowpane would (as she might put it) rock as an interesting variant on just gray? The donkey-gray, mentioned in the cloth club thread might also be adaptable in this way - but, maybe the creamy stripe there? Just idle ramblingyachtie wrote:If they made such a cloth, I'd buy it. I do have a dark green SB with a blue pinstripe that also looks quite nice.storeynicholas wrote:I think that this is very nearly exactly what I had in mind, earlier in the thread - do you think that it might be any use as a cream or even (maybe) a rusty chalk-stripe?yachtie wrote:No green for business is as dead as Hardy Aimes. It just has to be the right green:
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