{"id":990,"date":"2008-12-05T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2008-12-05T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T05:01:00","slug":"just-call-it-beige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/just-call-it-beige\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Call It Beige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couture Carrie&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/couturecarrie.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/id-rather-go-naked.html\">here <\/a>reminded me of an issue that has amused me for a while. How did we &#8212; at this time when so much we say better be politically correct or else &#8212; start calling beige clothes or shoes &#8220;nude&#8221;? Obviously, &#8220;nude&#8221; sounds sexier than &#8220;beige,&#8221; but since not all people are beige under their clothes, it&#8217;s a misnomer.<\/p>\n<p>Crayola Crayons changed the name of the &#8220;Flesh&#8221; crayon to &#8220;Peach&#8221; in recognition of that fact that not all people have the same skin color &#8230; way back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crayola.com\/colorcensus\/history\/chronology.cfm\">1962<\/a>. (Which means my memory of having used the &#8220;Flesh&#8221; crayon is totally false since I wasn&#8217;t born till 1967. Interesting.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/put-it-in-neutral.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/STmkluirFVI\/AAAAAAAAGyo\/CMeWYLqHSZo\/s320\/20080619_0423.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276429406496822610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">When I got these shoes<a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/put-it-in-neutral.html\"> in June<\/a>, I described them as &#8220;neutral&#8221; rather than &#8220;nude.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couture Carrie&#8217;s post here reminded me of an issue that has amused me for a while. How did we &#8212; at this time when so much we say better be politically correct or else &#8212; start calling beige clothes or shoes &#8220;nude&#8221;? Obviously, &#8220;nude&#8221; sounds sexier than &#8220;beige,&#8221; but since not all people are beige&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/just-call-it-beige\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fashion-trends","7":"category-shoes","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}