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Re: R: Re: Color associations

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 5, 2000, 20:42
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:00:40PM +0200, Mangiat wrote:
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> Yellow has been my favourite colour for all my childhood. At the > kindergarten, when they asked me which was my fav colour and I answered > 'yellow', they answered me I couldn't choose that because it was 'reserved > to girls' : ) Now I like them all (but I prefer light colours to dark ones).
[snip] Any clues as to why yellow was "reserved to the girls"? If it's something like red or pink, I'd understand, as that's basically a traditional thing; but yellow? I mean, I always thought yellow was like for royalty or something, nothing feminine about it. (Although my personal reason for liking yellow is 'cos it feels "lush", whatever that means.) And yeah, my color tastes have changed slightly... I still like yellow, though not as obssessively as before :-) but now I also like shades of green. But light green or bright green still doesn't appeal to me though... I still prefer the darker shades of green, preferably with some blue mixed in... ;-) but I HATE anything brown. Green with a little brown mixed in is just disgusting to me; I tend to think of them as "dirty greens", but that's just me. :-) T