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flimsy-roost · 4 months

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when I was a kid, "matching colors" were explained to me as "colors that go together." as follows are the resulting rules I set for dressing myself from ages 3-11:

-Red and Blue only go with each other (the flag said so)

-Green and Yellow only go with each other (nature, ie green plants and yellow pollen)

-Purple is suspicious (too close to pink), to be treated with caution

-Orange I guess is fine around halloween season, but without a color partner (with purple being on such thin ice), is rarely incorporated

-Black and White preferably go with each other (like book pages), but are acceptable also with any other color

-Grey and Brown are Boring and Yucky and Should Be Avoided At All Costs

so basically 80% of the time I dressed like an ultra patriot or a garden gnome. my closet looked like a game of twister

#samble rambles #nd #this is the earliest example I can remember of nonsensical rigid rules I made for myself #for a long time I remembered is as something MY MOM made me do until she was like wtf I let you dress yourself in preschool #it took me a long time to understand that green wasn't a primary color #and to stop forgetting that orange and purple are in the main 6

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