My everyday uniform is your basic black SWAT outfit and when I go home I seem to continue with the black attire. Now some of my friends think I have a "Neo" complex but I find that black is the most useful clothing color. Anything just about goes with it(except stripes and plaids). I think I am just being sensible but am I wrong?

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Is it wrong to wear plaid and polka dots?

How about forest green and lavender?

I occasionally wear white shoes after labor day.

Does it look good? Heh. Let me just say that forest green and lavender combined clashes loudly enough to signal ships.

Wrong? If it works for you, it's never wrong.

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With smiling [faces] lyin' to ye' everywhere ye' go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

If it's clean (within reason) and fits, it's wearable.

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I like black clothes myself, mostly because its an easier to coordinate color than others. It can get a little oppressive in the summer though.

I do own and wear a pair of darker olive green slacks, and a few off green/brown plaid shirts that go with it. I call it my "Cubicle Camo" collection.

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There's nothing wrong with wearing a lot of black, but I find that I almost never wear all black outfits. It's nearly impossible to match blacks properly (the shirt will be a lighter black than the pants, or the other way around, unless they both are part of a suit, and I HATE wearing suits). I'll often wear black and another color together, instead. Since black goes with everything, it's easy to match with almost any other color.

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It's too hot to wear black stuff here....

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I rarely wear black at all. Nothing against it personally - it's just that all the white dog hair shows up really well, and is a pain to get off.

As far as 'style'... unless you are a lady going to the opera,or a sales person, who the heck cares? I'd *deliberately* mix stripes and prints if I could.

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sometimes it's good to be color blind

I have the same problem with our white and black cat. And she LOVES to lay on any item of clothing left on the bed -- like a homing missile with very rapid target acquisition.

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Half of my clothes are black and the other half are a combination of red, blue, green, and khaki. I just pull out a shirt and a pair of pants out of the dresser, and they always coordinate! How great is that?

--hippie

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I heart Ducky. I stalk Ducky. His hair is quite fluffy, and he makes good cookies. (And now he's my prom date...)

I know your pain...fluffy white persian cat. That hair shows up on white!!

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The last time I felt a warm fuzzy feeling, I was informed by my doctor that it was just gas.

D's a tabby; his fur shows up on everything. However, I do own quite a lot of black clothing, in no small part for the "don't have to worry about matching" thing. Large amounts of my ren faire wardrobe is monochrome, simply to make packing easy. (Grey, white, and black are our friends!)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I usually whatever I can scratch up...

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Width, silver, bells, cockle, shells, and prithe made all in aureole

During my Purdue "Daze", my friend was looking through my closet. She said outloud, "Oh look, black, black, black, black, black, black. Why is everything in your closet black"?

I now wear brown, beige, black, red, pink, white, green... Dang, the only color I won't wear is blue, unless it is of jean material. Girls compliment me when I wear brown and black, and boys compliment me when I wear pink and red.

I like boys in funky European sweaters and khaki's or jeans. I don't care for athletic shoes on a man, unless he's working out. I like the loafer shoe. Casual just looks nice and clean.

I've been through phases - it makes life easier. Like my white t-shirt and blue jeans phase, my black t-shirt and blue jeans phase, my white t-shirt and black jeans phase, etc. etc. I did go throgh a black t-shirt and black jeans phase and for some reason that combination got a lot of comments about my dark mental state. I figured I was probably more sane than anyone who thought they could see into my soul by what I was wearing that year and thought no more of it.

PS I'm now in my "my girlfriend dresses me" phase, and will be for life I hope

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If logic doesn't work, then surely it does.

Black is such a versatile colour that often when a new season rolls around, some fashionista will try and ram down our throats that `pink is the new black' or `brown is the new black' which reallly sheets home to me just how far black is ahead of all those wannabee colours that come and go like the wind.
Personally though, I don't wear that much black outside of my suits. A couple of black t-shirts about do me right, I tend to like a bit of colour up top, brown, blue, green, khaki, lots of variety, not too heavily defined by any single colour.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer - renowned 19th Century German philosopher.

Black is my favorite. I think it goes with anything, including mixing shades of black, and with plaids and stripes as well (though not together - as in black with plaids with stripes).

My morning getting dressed routine goes like this: Black socks, black slacks, any shirt, black sweater and/or black jacket if needed, black shoes. When my jobs required wearing a suit, it was simply white shirt and any tie instead of any shirt.

I've always ignored casual day, colors of your team day, sports days, and most other wardrobe gimmicks. Clothing is utilitarian for me, to put that much thought into what to wear (especially at 5 AM) is too much. Every now and then someone will remind me in oh-so-cheery cheerleader fashion that I forgot to wear my green and gold (Packer territory). I usually just tell them in a very dry manner that I apologize for the colors of their team (thru which they have chosen to live so vicariously), not being the first thing or second thing or even the last thing on my mind each morning.

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I have to wear khaki pants as a uniform at work. My job is part office and part dealing with customers. I like to dress nicely, but it's hard to do in khaki day after day! There are days when I know I won't have to deal with customers, so I wear whatever I want. Also days that I know I spend a limited time with the public, so I keep a pair of khaki pants at work to change in to when I just don't want to wear khaki all day.

We also have a uniform shirt, but I hate wearing it because it's universal sizing--meaning a Small has to fit both men and women. Result: small is huge on me. I do have the option of wearing a uniform vest over a white shirt. So my wardrobe picking most mornings is: "what white shirt and khaki pants do I wear today?" Sometimes it's nice not having to think about it, but I've been doing it for a year and a half now and I'm quite sick of it.

For a while the uniform was either black or khaki pants, which allowed a little more variety. But no more! I have some shirts that just don't go with khaki, so I can't wear them to work very often.

Like any self respecting IT man, I negotiated a no-uniform status for myself in an otherwise suited office Well hey, I might have to pick a cable up off the floor!

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If logic doesn't work, then surely it does.

'Black coat, white shoes, blackhat, cadillac
The boy's a time bomb" - Rancid

I don't normally pay attention to color. I suppose if I did I would lean toward dark neutral colors, black has no real special place, except for suits, I just like black.

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All the folks in our IT department wear jeans. It's like their uniform. They are management, they sit with management, but they just don't adhere to company policy. I sure do like that department.

Of course, starting next month, the current IT department gets outsourced to EDS in Canada. I think it's EDS. We will still have a smaller IT department (with a totally different name) for all the newer technologies. I hope to be on that team in 1 year.

Not IMO. I wear black all the time. I do it because I generally look good in black, plus it's a fun thing to play on people.

When I graduate from College, I'm going to show up to Graduation in a pure white outfit with dyed pink hair (my hair right now is so dark brown, it's practically black).

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Check out my writing, maybe.

You're agorphobic now what makes you sure you will change? I was agorphobic during early college years. I had to force myself out of it.

At my alma mater, there's no requirement for caps and gowns. Only roughly half of graduates bother with them, though very few people skip graduation (it's too much fun). I dressed up in Elizabethan (well, I didn't get my hoops made in time), and my friend Jen dressed, as you're speculating about doing, in pure white--as the goddess Athena, essentially. Dr. Joycelyn Elders, our graduation speaker that year, complimented her outfit.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

My friend say I look good in short black dress.

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Beauty I’d always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I can’t say anymore.

-- Moody Blues

Every woman should have a LBD(little black dress).

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agreed

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Beauty I’d always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I can’t say anymore.

-- Moody Blues

EDS is one of my company's competitors.

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Have got to get to the south of France sometime this year.

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

I'll fight you for her.

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I'm an engineer. I've produced many ideas that have beauty, but only a few that have truth. The difference is important, and truth is discovered only in a harsh and unyielding crucible. It's up to you what you propose to value. -- Jay Utah

Check out my writing, maybe.

I'll bring the popcorn for the rest of us.

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