Dinner sets should be white and white only. AIBU?

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I’ll give you a pass for off white.

Please someone tell me they also remember when the woman posted her roast dinner on a clear see through plate? #wistful

Boring!

Mine is all white, makes it easier to match other things to it.

My mum had a house fire and was donated black square plates, she was more upset about that than the actual fire!

No to white bed linen. Will get grubby in no time at all. I have gorgeous 300 thread count sets - one with peacocks on, another which is very country house with deer park. I love them. No-one else in our house has white either. It's boring and smacks of cheapo hotels.

This post has reminded me that my grandmother had see through plates. There seemed to be some kind of system where only certain foods would be served on the see through plates but I wasn't privy to the criteria.

YABU though OP. Life is bad enough without plate fascism, we need a bit of colour.

We have white, blue and white willow pattern, and three Spode light green plates inherited from my much missed DGM - of all the plates it's the three green ones I love most.

But I have just spent a fortune on a massive Denby blue set and it is utterly delightful!!!

I suppose they should be white but not in my house, I love crazy colourful mismatched things. Antique ot new, I don't care as long as they are quirky and lovely and above all colourful.

My parents had black and I loved it

My family each use a different color, I have pink, husband green, mom red when she comes over. All bought separately from IKEA so they match in size and style but all colors are different and I love them. Have matching side plates and bowls too.

Each to their own. I find patterned plates boring, because of the same old pattern every time you use them. White plates are sort of invisible, I just see the food!

I do have a white set but currently much prefer to mix and match stoneware from Broste Copenhagen and similar brands in different shades of light and dark greys and white like in the pictures above. I'm also very partial to mismatched blue and white table settings with everything from Burleigh Calico to Meissen onion thrown in. Much more interesting than plain white.

I got a boring Jamie Oliver white set when I got married. (As did everyone else who got married the same year as me it seemed). Still keep them for best. The plates outlasted they marriage.And the pans for that matter-still going strong since 2004....
I've got colourful ones for every day,grey plates then side plates and bowls in varying patterns but all either Orange,Turquoise or dark Blue. I love them. But a few have broken over the last get years so am on the look out for a new colourful set. Sorry if that offends

These beautiful white plates are stunning!

I love Willow pattern crockery. I want some really old ones. I WILL get them. My current plates are all white (cheap) and a collection of hand thrown ones too...bowls, mugs and plates all in gorgeous rough clay...they're brownish speckled.

Fox I love Denby. My friend had a huge set for her wedding back in the 80s and when she did her house up, she left it all in boxes in the utility room and her DH kept opening the door to the cupboard ONTO the boxes and each time he did, he'd break another piece! He never said anything!

I have 2 sets
Grey normal round plates and dish set
And my white square plates and dish set
In all honesty I wanted rose gold and blush square set but yet to find one. I find just white too boring hence why I went for a square set and I love them

I hate white plates. They look so cold! Mine are black AND square so there!

How very dull and lacking imagination...

All sorts of food looks good on different colours. A tomato based pasta dish looks superb on black. I do a very pale risotto which I serve on turquoise dishes which also looks fresh a lovely.

Bought a stack of it wholesale and a mixture of colours, and textures but the same style.

The phrase "food looks better on white" is meaningless. Food is of infinite variety - colour, texture etc.

If you want to do it for pragmatic reasons then go for it, but don't try and make it some kind of arbitrary benchmark for good taste.

Mine are white but the edges have a bit of a pattern. I would never have a whole patterned or coloured plate though so I completely agree

I have the M&S white maxim range.. I purchased it 18 years ago when I got my first home.. A) because at the time I worked there and had staff discount.. B) because you could replace so gle items.

I can honestly say I've prob only replaced 6 items in all that time through chips or breaks.
The cups I got rid as were too small.

I often think about getting something with a splash of colour but the thought of it being discontinued and then not having a full set makes me uneasy..

What's not to love about these beauties?

My mum had a house fire and was donated black square plates, she was more upset about that than the actual fire!

I can just hear the neighbour's conversation.

"Lala's mother's house is burned to the ground!'

"Omygod! Is everyone all right?"

"Yes, thank heavens, but they haven't got so much as a plate or cup left."

"You know what this means, don't you?"

"YAY!"

I’m not keen on patterned. Possibly due to the memory of a Christmas job in Boots in 1990, where I spent most of the time restocking the ‘Eternal Beau’ range. It was hideous, but hugely popular.

It’s hard to believe that Boots used to sell crockery, but I didn’t dream it.

I once schlepped a vintage noritake dinner set home from backpacking in the blue mountains. I think that sets my stall in the white argument perfectly. We have an everyday white set but also an everyday duck egg/ pink stripes/ floral set, and for good Minton white with large ornate floral rims and another Shelley set from my mother’s godmother, and a Christmas set... and my vintage noritake set... and other tea cups. Ahhhh China :)