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Colorgenics: You Can Create the Image You Want by the Colors You Wear
Explores the links between clothing colors and personality, cataloging the meanings of specific colors, their sexual significance, and their effects on thought, feelings, and actions
160 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1988
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September 24, 2022
What a WASTE of time. This book is only good as kindling! Zero stars!
This entire book is a pathetic excuse to convince people to wear certain colours and avoid others with the premise of it saying that wearing specific colours on specific parts of the body is making a statement even if the wearer isn't aware that they are making the statement. Black shoes for example mean you have "no real physical direction as yet and are still testing your surroundings to wake up and become what you find enjoyable" it talks about mystery and sex but states, "black is probably the most comon colour for shoes in society". Exactly! If you have limited choices of colors that has zero to do with having no direction and more to do with using what is available to you.
If you wear red socks you have anger issues??? Seriously, has this author never heard of Valentines or Christmas where you wear something to "dress-up" for the holiday? Earlier the author placed both people who are under the birth sign of Scorpio and Aries in the colour Red, they are hostile all the time? Wow! White socks are hiding true feelings of hiding behind a facade of purity?
Male colors versus female colors, what a load of baloney!
Every statement made about some specific area made as though his authority of color aura is tested, when it's all speculation and opinion.
Since pre-made clothing is the norm and you are limited to what the manufactures create, you are limited in your color choices. Blue or black for a pair of pants, black or white for a shirt, brown or black for shoes...see a theme here, lots of black and that doesn't make it a choice, maybe only the black was in your shoes size, or maybe the blue was the only color of pants that fit. Maybe at work you have to be conservative or are expected to be extravagant.
I think this missed the mark on so many levels. Rather than some pretentious statements actual observations would have been good, there is more theory and no proof to any of this. Even taking into consideration the time period this was published there were color limitations then too.
At the time I purchase this I was exploring colors in both art and women's make-up, never got around to reading this book then and was culling my shelves, so I thought I would give it a read. What a mistake, both now in reading, and then in making the purchase.
This entire book is a pathetic excuse to convince people to wear certain colours and avoid others with the premise of it saying that wearing specific colours on specific parts of the body is making a statement even if the wearer isn't aware that they are making the statement. Black shoes for example mean you have "no real physical direction as yet and are still testing your surroundings to wake up and become what you find enjoyable" it talks about mystery and sex but states, "black is probably the most comon colour for shoes in society". Exactly! If you have limited choices of colors that has zero to do with having no direction and more to do with using what is available to you.
If you wear red socks you have anger issues??? Seriously, has this author never heard of Valentines or Christmas where you wear something to "dress-up" for the holiday? Earlier the author placed both people who are under the birth sign of Scorpio and Aries in the colour Red, they are hostile all the time? Wow! White socks are hiding true feelings of hiding behind a facade of purity?
Male colors versus female colors, what a load of baloney!
Every statement made about some specific area made as though his authority of color aura is tested, when it's all speculation and opinion.
Since pre-made clothing is the norm and you are limited to what the manufactures create, you are limited in your color choices. Blue or black for a pair of pants, black or white for a shirt, brown or black for shoes...see a theme here, lots of black and that doesn't make it a choice, maybe only the black was in your shoes size, or maybe the blue was the only color of pants that fit. Maybe at work you have to be conservative or are expected to be extravagant.
I think this missed the mark on so many levels. Rather than some pretentious statements actual observations would have been good, there is more theory and no proof to any of this. Even taking into consideration the time period this was published there were color limitations then too.
At the time I purchase this I was exploring colors in both art and women's make-up, never got around to reading this book then and was culling my shelves, so I thought I would give it a read. What a mistake, both now in reading, and then in making the purchase.
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