Why are clothes colours are still so horrible?

[reptile]

I've just had a totally fruitless clothes buying trip to Oxford. Why are so many clothes still (after what feels like 3 years) purple, petrol blue, grey, or that vile mustardy colour? The only one of those that suits me is the purple and even I'm tired of that.

Oh yes, I didn't even mention that tomato soup red that's all over M and S

I hate purple too so ott excwpt in tights

The vile mustardy colour has been rebranded as 'camel' for this season, sadly. That horrible grey keeps coming back disguised as 'pewter' or 'slate' or 'charcoal', despite the fact that only seven foot 15 yr old catwalk models don't look like washed out hags in it. Purple looks shite on 99% of people ( every year I buy a purple item and then never wear it).

I agree, btw

Purple looks good on me. Maybe they keep bringing it out for brown-skinned folks?

I like grey and it suits me.

Agree that the M&S tomato red stuff is vile. M&S frequently get colours badly wrong though.

Purple can be nice but there are some really horrible purples around at the moment, often made worse by the fact that they are in gloriously static polyester.

Purple has to be expensive. Purple ployester? NO.

Oooh, polyester. One of my favourite fabrics.

I have a purple polyester pant suit.

You know, when I googled that, I wasn't seriously expecting it to come up trumps! Doesn't that girl modelling it look mortified, though? ROFL!

Grey suits me too. And 'petrol' blue. But I have high-maintenance hair, so it all balances out in the end!

camel is everywhere

Oh my dear God - that is one of the ugliest things I have ever seen!

Impressive, ain't it, Ghoul?!

That looks like something from The Boy From Space! ah ha ha ha

Vile.

I suit camel but not mustard.

Oh, tell me about it! I've just been out in Oxford this afternoon and it was all bleugh.

Is it better elsewhere?

Dear God that pantsuit is $18!

I love grey and it suits me so I love the stuff around now. Can't do the other colours except in shoes.

Grey is lovely - but I'm bored with it now. I want a gorgeous autumn-colour dress of some kind, but nothing doing. I actually tried on something in that heinz-tomato red (not in M&S) and was rewarded by looking as if someone had tinted my skin yellow. It is not good.

Ah, trends are not on our side :(. I was really hoping for something remotely flattering when ASOS e-mailed me with their new White collection meant to offer effortless tailoring, ladylike silks etc. All the right noises.

Then you look through this little slideshow and think... really? Is that it? Thankfully no purple in sight, but so many unflattering colours and shapes instead that I am grateful to be pregnant and therefore unable to shop properly. The only thing I am remotely wistful about not being able to buy are the peg trousers.

Why beige? It is the colour of pensioners and middle aged men whose mothers still shop for them.

This is hideous - what are ASOS thinking? Effortless tailoring?

tell me you look grim in 'camel' though SG?

not sure what colours suit me really. none?

My 100 year old great aunt had loads of those, missbeehiving.

It is saving me lots of money though. I wandered round Topshop and by the time I'd eleminated dressing up as a sailor from my enquiries, I was left with miniskirts (i think not) and beige drapes. I don't want to look like Miss Haversham's dining companion thank you.

Pale ballet pink, vile jaundiced camel, navy FGS - and all in such horrible shapes.

H&M have a few, very few, nice things scattered between the dustsheets new collections.

lol @ Elephants - my 100 yr old great aunt would turn up her nose at that crap tbh.

:o - did you see the granny shoes to "complete the look"?

and this reminds me of my cardinal rule - if garment make the skeletal model look like a bit of a chunker, do not even try it on or you will cry.

M&S is always ghastly and way out with colours. I am petite and ordered a mac online - turned out to be the vilest shade of red I have ever seen so it went right back.
On a more positive note, I bought a camel jumper in Monsoon but it has a coral/red stripe running through it and it is rather flattering on me and I am rather pleased with it