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

MIL has a noritake set I can’t imagine how you got it back!!!
I am chuckling at all the imperial blue denby though. And the eternal beau. It’s brilliantly easy to determine when the weddings were (we have a mix of denby metz with imperial blue to bring the white in too for plates - mugs are Metz, blue and whatever the green equivalent of imperial blue was).
But I also have a vast selection of IKEA round white ones that used to be in our rental unit. I tried to palm them off on dd1 when she went to uni but she insisted on coloured stuff. I have high hopes for gap-year ds or dd2...
In other news, did anyone actually look at that link? Surely the red jellied dessert served on sanitary towels wasn’t real? Please???????

I love my Denby Halo which is all dark blue and grey

Denby Halo 🥰

Yabu. Ours are bright and mismatched and we love them.

They are a mid brown sepia tone glass and she has the majority of a full dinner set including teacups, saucers and dishes.

I remember those, we had the mugs. I think they were popular because they were one of the few sets that could go in those new fangled microwave things that were the size of a small country and took two people to carry.

I have Imperial Blue Denby for special occasions (Christmas, Easter)

I used to do this but now I don't keep anything for best, life is too short to use something lovely only twice a year, why not enjoy it everyday ?

We have square white with a black pattern on

We replaced our all white plates (and bowls, mugs, etc) for these and I love them so there.

I’m enjoying the 80s throw backs and revivals

If my dinner was on a glass plate I would feel compelled to see what it looked like from underneath.

We had those octagonal black mugs, weird to drink out of, now have a mismatch of blue and white plates and bowls which I like to think is edgy.

Amazed no one has mentioned Portmeirion Botanic Garden.... so pretty but impossible to tell where the pattern ended and the brocolli began!

I have just been offered 12 place settings of Wedgwood California (white with a gold trim) from my godmother who is sadly going into care. DH is driving several hundred kilometres to collect it.

It is this. www.chinasearch.co.uk/wedgwood/california/

I don't get the Denby love.
I love my Portmeirion Botanic salad bowl.
Meadows and Byrne do the most amazing and lovely, very very fine and delicate, embossed, light cream with a mother of pearl sheen porcelain plates. Gorgeous to present food on imho.
Perhaps someone with better tech skills than I could post a photo please?

Mine are a brightly coloured Moroccan design and I love them.

In my home it has to be white as plates seem to just break in my hands 🤪so plain white is much easier to replace, no need to stock or hunt down a particular set.

But mugs are another story - I have 20 and each one is different colour / design.

I voted YABU but my breakfast plate is white with a tiny blue rim. So I don't have much room to talk
Must be round.
However we also have other blue and white patterns including some Willow Pattern which you CANNOT object to because IT IS THE PLATE LAW.

I don't even own a dinner set, we have an eclectic selection of differing plates and bowls in varying shades of grey, green and off white. The serving dishes are brightly coloured Moroccan style.

We have lots and dinner parties aka friends over and no complaints yet.

We have Denby it's clocked up 25 years, but it's all white on top and dark green underneath so you still get the white behind the food. I think we had a near escape because there were some hideous patterns in 1994. Can't be doing with fragile wafer thin china in our house. I like colour around the place personally.

Dinner 'sets' of any type are boring when there are so many lovely designs to choose from.

I don’t mind a rounded square plate (like the Ikea 365 ones) but I draw the line at a square bowl. Soup is round.

I like the idea of coloured plates but the cupboard is full of plain white.

@PurbeckStone
I love that table setting. Hadn't heard of Broste Copenhagen before!

There is a place in this world for blue and white everyday china (my china cabinet is that place). Also formal china with a grey-blue edge and platinum trim that is a pita to hand wash, but it looks beyond gorgeous on a dark wooden table with pewter candlesticks and white linen napkins.

Cream and round. Never square.

Polish pottery is the ultimate for colour, we have some of that too. Sorry I don't actually own a white plate!