Has brown become too dominant in style and beauty shops lately

[Mary46]

Hi while I like brown its everywhere now. Blazers all brown in shops. I love burgundy but brown in everything. Do others like it.

I also think brown can look good with lighter denim in summer.

I had my colours done and tan brown and chocolate brown were excellent colours. I do generally find them hard to wear though. As in they need to match correctly in warmth and depth, and not look like a sack.

It really suits me so I’m loving it and have lots of lovely looking clothes atm

The brown 70’s was my childhood. It was everywhere including on the walls.
Proper George and Mildred wallpaper usually with some sort of orange involved. That’s definitely on its way back as well if you look at interior decor, fringed lamps the works.

But presumably you don’t have to buy anything this season?

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It's everywhere but I probably just notice it more as its not a colour I've ever worn.

I was an 80's Brownie and probably still traumatised by the hideous brown dress with banana coloured accessories!

I don't like burgundy either as it's our corporate colour at work and I've spent 30 years being surrounded by it 🙈.

Hell, had forgotten about crimplene. DM bought crimplene dresses from M&S and I'm no style maven but they were hideous.

I love wearing brown and it suits my colouring far better than black, but even I am bewildered by quite how much of it there seems to be in the shops at the moment!

I hate hate hate brown, it doesn't suit me at all! Remember being made to wear brown crimpelene flares in the 70s, with a hideous mustard jumper. Don't know what my mother was thinking. 🤮

Burgundy and dark green are lovely though.

Everything looks like sludge. I want some winter jewels coloured clothes which are suitable for summer and autumn not just sparkly party wear.

You mean the last year of brown winter, brown spring, brown summer and brown autumn are too much?!

Surely not, when there’s the simultaneous wonders of khaki and cream to liven it up 😂

It just reminds me of poo, it’s just awful. Don’t get me started on brown nail polish.

Me, too.

Wall to wall brown, mustard, orange and a colour that my late mother used to refer to as "cow muck green" (probably now known as "duck shit green").

There was a lot of burgundy and purple around in the mid to late 60s, too, especially for shoes. Those low heeled, double strap Mary Janes that Twiggy used to wear seem to have made a come back this last few years.

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I love brown and generally wear it as my main neutral (where someone else might wear black or navy). Love burgundy too so it’s all good for me.

Wall to wall brown, mustard, orange and a colour that my late mother used to refer to as "cow muck green" (probably now known as "duck shit green").

We had a rather large sitting room with two alcoves that were papered in a pattern of most of those colours. Plus a brown leatherette sofa and a swirly red carpet. Hommage to Terence Conran it was not. However, that wallpaper was improvement on what it replaced which had, I kid you not, a pattern of house bricks.

Anyway, brown. No thanks.

We definitely need the laughing emoji back MN 😂

I’ve only just started getting into brown after resisting for a number of years. A very dark brown seems to suit me and looks nice with my tan skin colouring and dark features.
So I like it! Not head to toe, but one item at a time is fine. I also have some brown loafers for work which seem to go nicely with some of my trousers, olive green ones and navy cords, the brown goes nicer than black footwear, just a bit softer.

This is the era for me but it has been going on ages now! I think it is starting to turn actually. There's more grey and red about.

Oh yes I had that wallpaper too; brown, orange and a touch of mustard mixed up in a psychedelic print. I’m surprised I got any sleep at all.

Brown suited me when I had blonde hair years ago. Now I am grey it looks dreadful!

I love brown and it really suits me. There are so many different shades both warm and cool that there's one to suit everyone.

Saying everyone who wears brown looks like "a giant turd" is as ridiculous as it is untrue. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean that it looks terrible on everyone.

Hehehe I bought a brown 'lounge suit' effort. Aka jogging bottoms and matching top. Soooooo comfy. Then I realised I look like my dog. Same colour. Not a good move!

I hate brown - it’s miserable and reminds me of my school uniform. Poo brown is not flattering, except in a toilet bowl.

If it’s still dominant in 15 years then I’ll take complaints. Until then, as far as I’m concerned, it’s payback for 2 decades of grey.

Me too @RampantIvy Current offerings in stores remind me of the wallpaper, furniture and soft furnishings in my parents “good room” in the late 70s. All hideous on me.