Male clothing colors, what's acceptable to you?

[OmniscientOstrich]

I tend to wear a lot of black, not out of any fear of being perceived as unmanly or whatever, just personal preference. I do have one pink shirt and a few other more brightly coloured shirts lying around that I throw on every now and then and nobody really comments on them, though in this day and age not that many people are liable to give a shit; more androgynous clothing in general isn't exactly an alien concept unless you've spent the last 10 years diligently ignoring every high street in the country. If anything, the only trepidation I have about wearing pink is that people might mistake for a chav:

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*shudders* Anyway, as for what's acceptable, I can't say I'd be really sure until I saw it, depends on the person, the weather, the event, if they're hot they can get away with it (sometimes) yada yada etc. but I guess in a general sense, any kind of jarring/drastic colour combinations put me off more than anything. Actually, just having brightly coloured trousers is enough to make me squint, I have no idea why people think it looks cool and it can completely ruin an otherwise killer look:

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Ugh, dude, seriously, just go out and buy yourself some black trousers and shoes and you'd look so fucking money, baby. Anyway, in spite of my rambling, at the end of the day I'm really not all that fussed about what bits of fabric people choose to ensconce themselves in and I'm really the last person on the planet you'd turn to for fashion tips, but I guess in general I prefer the bright colours to stay on the top half of the body.

On a side note, it would appear that I've just reached 6000 posts:

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Well fine, be that way, guess I just won't be inviting you to my 6000 post celebration party. Guess I'll just have to have all the cake for myself. How do you like that Mr. Bale?

 

[Artemis923]

Black metal shirts come in...black, so I wear those.

And regular, sexy blue jeans, because black jeans are gross.

 

[The Hero Killer]

I'll wear just about anything but gray and yellow, simply because I dont like the colors. My closet is roughly 50% black 20% white and the rest red, brown, one blue, and one pink shirt.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I wouldn't wear pink.. but that's only because I would look terrible in it. There are other colours I just don't like at all, and some I don't think look good on clothing in almost any case, but I don't think I'd ever put it down to a gender thing. It's more of an "ewwwww, what are you wearing?" thing.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Most of my trousers are a camo pattern of some kind.

I do find the patterns nice, but the main reason is that that type of camo pants has lots of pockets.

Tee shirts tend to be cream/white or black.

 

[Akytalusia]

as for other people, i could not give any less fucks. wear whatever you want. as for me, i prefer solid black, and i'm comfortable in solid blue as well. aside from a special case, i refuse to wear anything with an image or pattern on it. just solid colors.

 

[DoctorImpossible]

I stick to black, blue and earth tones myself*. But whatever, I don't judge people by what color clothing they like.

*Lies. I have a huge Hawaiian shirt collection. But typically I stick with jeans/cargo shorts, and a humble t-shirt.

 

[ACM_Shadow]

some of my mates used to have a "pink shirt friday", so in a engineering lecture there would be around 10 people with bright pink shirts.
I dont see any problem with any colours, other then a really comfy "bum" shirt i dont have a purple shirt.
then again i dont have any fashion sense either.....
I usually like darker colours though so i have quite a few browns, blacks, dark blues. other then that it is generally a simple plain coloured shirt.

 

[Baneat]

Black's pretty crappy but nothing beats bright yellow or any of the fluoro colours.

 

[Rack]

Anything except pink.

Oh and pink.

 

[GonvilleBromhead]

Some articles I have a limited range, others an unlimited range. I wouldn't wear pink shoes, or an orange jacket...but would where both coloured ties and shirts

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I didn't think certain colors weren't acceptable. Who cares?

 

[Estarc]

Purple. Purple is the only colour I would ever wear in public. Frankly, it is the only colour I like seeing on other men too. It is extremely rare however, and I usually go though my day filled with contempt for the ludicrous range of colours (black, brown, blue, red, green etc) other men wear.

Or, if I wasn't being a sarcastic dick, I would say any colour a man feels like. If he wants to wear a pink shirt, and feels good in that colour, awesome. I am partial to darker colours myself, but have no colour I would absolutely not wear.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I think strangely coloured trousers tend to loo ridiculous, but for t-shirts things I don't mind so long as it's not bright pink or yellow really. I tend to wear darker colours though, considering most of the time I'm wearing a band shirt (rarely aren't black) or a lumberjack shirt (which look awful in bright colours) and jeans. I also have vitilgo, which has damn near covered most of my visible skin, so I am one pasty fucker, and brighter colours tend not to look so great with that.

 

[BartyMae]

Black, brown, gray, white, dark red, and dark green are my colors. I will wear nothing else.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Also, what's the problem with pink? Real mean (aren't afraid to) wear pink! [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealMenWearPink]

Pink requires the right complexion and hair colour to pull it off, that's the problem.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I think the biggest problem with why pink is associated so much with girls is because of advertising and marketing, go into any toy store and the girls section is just a mirage of pink absolutely everywhere, so much so that boys are absolutely terrified to venture in there lest they be girlified, and of course it doesn't help that boys and girls are being pigeon holed and stereotyped from birth, why parents might even receive blue/pink presents/outfits before the baby is even born, which just makes matters even worse.

Hey? Other way around, surely. For advertising and marketing to colour everything aimed at girls/women pink, pink must first be associated with them.

But yeah, pigeonholed from the moment they were born.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Everything.

For myself as well. I got shirts in basically every spectrum. Only a few colours don't look good on me. For instance purple (except for tiny patches here and there), pink, orange and very bright yellow doesn't look good on me. But I'll try on basically anything.

I need more variation in the pants department though. I only got jeans in various shades of light and dark.

 

[Jamieson 90]

I think the biggest problem with why pink is associated so much with girls is because of advertising and marketing, go into any toy store and the girls section is just a mirage of pink absolutely everywhere, so much so that boys are absolutely terrified to venture in there lest they be girlified, and of course it doesn't help that boys and girls are being pigeon holed and stereotyped from birth, why parents might even receive blue/pink presents/outfits before the baby is even born, which just makes matters even worse.

Hey? Other way around, surely. For advertising and marketing to colour everything aimed at girls/women pink, pink must first be associated with them.

But yeah, pigeonholed from the moment they were born.

Not necessarily, advertising has a huge impact on society, no example better than that than Coca Cola and Christmas; before they came along there was no real colour associated with that specific holiday, but now red is firmly cemented as the colour for Christmas. As I said earlier in the thread pink used to be a boy's colour until things got switched around towards the start of the 20th century, with it accelerating around WWII, the thinking being that pink was a slightly less masculine colour than red, with blue being associated with the virgin Mary, hence it was associated with girls and their virtue.

 

[Yopaz]

No colour is really unacceptable. Different people pull of different colours. Sadly I pull off yellow, but I hate the colour. Some men pull off pink. Some outfits just don't look good no matter what though. Take a tie with Santa on it. Even around Christmas that tie doesn't work.