I watched a disgusting amount of ‘What Not to Wear/How to Look Good Naked/Undress the Nation’ type shows when I went home to enjoy the privileges of Sky (the joys of cack TV are not to be dismissed!) and the one thing I noticed was that the presenters Lisa Butcher & Mica Paris (seriously…Mica Paris…RANDOM?!)/Gok Wan/Trinny & Susannah will always criticise the makeover victims (they are TV’s poor lambs I tells ya…) and their old wardrobes for being drab and washed out. ‘I want you to be LOUD and PROUD!’. They’ll look at grey with disgust and say ‘Urgh what is that? Get rid of it!’ and god forbid there’s something pale and interesting hiding in their closets.
For the new season though, I think I’d rather be a wallflower than a loud and proud ‘WO-MAN’ (that’s how they say that word on those TV shows…). I seem to have accumulated a decent amount of dusky pinks, rubbed-out blues, heather greys and a general palette of colours that look like they have come out of a washing machine accident. It’s not exactly pastel either as I’m not keen on looking like a Mothercare advert. The colours have undertones of grey which gives the look a bit of murkiness. Without making it too wishy-washy, I have dug out my various treated light denim skirts again in pale blue and grey to make the outfits more robust. I’m sure Lisa/Gok/T&S would not give their seal of approval to these hues of wash-out but then again I’m not a ‘bangers and arse’ kinda girl either (watch How to Look Good Naked and you’ll know what I mean….!).
Source: Wash Out
