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Scarves Hermès scarf colors
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Particularly nice CW. Credit: hermesandvintage (instagram)
I'd be curious to know some of the range of Hermès browns, and I think that is next up on SotD...
I'd be curious to know some of the range of Hermès browns, and I think that is next up on SotD...
On the brown and red Brazil ... my memory is of a dark chocolate background but it looks mahogany - red brown - above. I am pretty sure they were not doing mahogany in those days but the red helps soften the brown in the overall impressionParticularly nice CW. Credit: hermesandvintage (instagram)
I'd be curious to know some of the range of Hermès browns, and I think that is next up on SotD...
Brown ... hmm ... not a huge mainstream Hermes color since the 1980s or so but yes Brazil did come in a few browns since it is an older earthy design
IMHO, brown is like deep purple or spruce green - jewel tones - not a mainstream Hermes basic color (in the last 30 years) like navy , black, wine, gold, cobalt . I can remember years when Ralph Lauren heavily did purple, spruce or brown - usually in rotation - but, I am not coming up with any years those 3 were mainstream for H (there are always exceptions ...)
I dont think brown has been mainstream in the Mens either - they concentrated on black, navy, gray, blue gray, more gray, wine in the last 20 years
Brown is such an interesting color! I regard it as a very functional neutral, like gray, in that it can be warm or cool, and sets off other colors very well:
credit: Croisette7
And yes, it so close to purple, as I can attest to after many attempts with paint to mix the perfect purple only to end up with...brown.
this is a really nice result of tying:
credit: Kadmia
credit: Kadmia
I am adding this scarf because I am so very fond of this colour combo! I was not fond of the design but seeing this has my heart going!
Sorry to interrupt again
Photos eBay seller
Oh my, that’s delicious !!
Julide, so glad to see you! MT and I only seem to be having a private confab here because no one else shows up!
Far from interrupting, you are most welcome to be here along with anyone else, and the scarf you posted is fabulous!!
Thank you kindly Jahna!
I have enjoyed reading about the colors in these scarves. It is really interesting!
please do not fret about interrupting - it is welcome !I am adding this scarf because I am so very fond of this colour combo! I was not fond of the design but seeing this has my heart going!
Sorry to interrupt again
Photos eBay seller
Must violently disagree LOL the CHAMPIGNONS does not count as brown. It is in the Taupe category, but not Brown.Brown is such an interesting color! I regard it as a very functional neutral, like gray, in that it can be warm or cool, and sets off other colors very well:
credit: Croisette7
And yes, it so close to purple, as I can attest to after many attempts with paint to mix the perfect purple only to end up with...brown.
Brown has to be darker - let me get out my photo of a REAL BROWN CHAMPIGNONS . I spent years finding an optimal cw of CHAMPIGNONS - i had to have the original multi color mushrooms not the revised monochrome ones, and I went for dirt brown from ca 1990. Jean Louis Dumas did some chocolate browns in 1980 - 1990s like my mushrooms
Prior to that were two browns. Noisette is very 1970s - hazlenut - a very golden brown. I dont have one from the 1970s but my COMTESSE DE SEGUR 1980s looks noisette on balance due to the cornucopeia of browns and golds.
The early brown was that in my COURBETTES from the 1960s. An indescribable color, dark, dull, almost camouflage khaki - definitely from the dull hunting color palettes - you wore your scarf out shooting and were supposed to blend in
Agree that the lighter shades like etoupe are fashionable now, I think of all the lather colors like Tourterelle, Poussiere, Etoupe - all of those non browns LOL I guess they fall in the dreaded beige category
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I love that ORS too due to the marron glace in there, not really silver but chestnut flesh colorA CW I really love (Ors Nomades):
There were like 9 cws of ORS but only 1 brown , lots of blues, several reddish oranges but only 1 brown
Some nice CWs that have turned up on SotD:
credit Croisette7 (a brown that is almost purple) there seem to be several browns in this one?:
Jardins a Sintra Credit living.la.vida.fifi:
And I love the colors in this one credit Croisette7:
credit Croisette7 (a brown that is almost purple) there seem to be several browns in this one?:
Jardins a Sintra Credit living.la.vida.fifi:
And I love the colors in this one credit Croisette7:
What about white? I wonder if they have shades of white, other than blanc matte...
I have always gone for the black version of Reves de Corail, but after I saw this I may have to go on a hunt!
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white is such a wonderful and difficult color...
I have always gone for the black version of Reves de Corail, but after I saw this I may have to go on a hunt!
Credit cookiefiend:
white is such a wonderful and difficult color...