what is the correct term for this colour?

janeainsworth
The tights or leggings I now wear are too thick to ladder!
I go back to pre-tights. I used to borrow mum's stockings held up by a suspender belt. If I happened to need a sanitary belt at the same time life was very complicated.
Some things have improved!

janeainsworth, I do in summer, I suffer from my feet getting very cold all year roundand it is associated with the Raynauds Syndrome that affects my hands. Occasionally in winter.

Am I the only one who still sometimes wears approximately-the-same-colour-as-my-legs-coloured tights and still sometimes stops ladders with nail varnish? ?

Grammaretto

I can remember American tan lemsip it was like an artificial suntan. Does anyone remember using clear nail varnish to stop ladders?

I remember doing that with clear nail varnish. And some of my friends had some special 'matches' to stop their ladders.
As for our skin colours, I think far too much is made of it.
I'm human, just like everyone else!

I just remember reading a book about the Caribbean immigration to the UK in the 1950s rather a long time. I cannot remember the title and not a lot about the book, but I do remember the account of disappointment about white people by someone who was a child at the time. She was shaken that white people were not, in fact, white but "pinko-grey".

I’d never call anything flesh coloured. Sounds revolting
Now, ^American cream soda^… now you’re talking
And I can imagine those mini skirt tights perfectly! Did you wear them with patent leather Mary Jane shoes with a block heel?

I worked as a Saturday girl in the haberdashery department of the local Co-Op department store, which stocked every colour and brand of tights available at the time.
Force those of us forced to wear flesh coloured tights as part of our school uniform, the weekend choice was American Cream Soda, which I think were made by Berkshire.
They made my Scottish pale skinned legs, look even paler. I thought I looked so trendy wearing them with my mini skirt!

poshpaws I worked in Littlewoods and they sold American Tan stockings. I always preferred 'Mocha' which was darker and more flattering (I thought!). It was years later that I found out Mocha was a kind of coffee. I've still never tasted it!

I remember American Tan so well that if anyone my age asks how I prefer my cup of tea, I automatically reply "American Tan please"!

Wasn't it M&S who sold almost nothing but "natural" or "American Tan" for years?

And yes, to the nail varnish to stop ladders. (Or soap as a last resort.)

I don't know about the rest of you, but the various different parts of my body are entirely different colours - ranging from pasty whiteish with flecks of grey, through purple blotched to dirty brown. Take your pick!

Trinny called it "biscuit beige" lol

I quite like almond.

I can remember American tan lemsip it was like an artificial suntan. Does anyone remember using clear nail varnish to stop ladders?

My convent school insisted on flesh coloured tights.

I'd never heard of flesh colour. at all. ..... re make- up theres pinks then sandy beige etc . for face moisturisers

remember American tan tights?

Peach is definitely much deeper and with an orange tint to it so peach is not the term
Caucasian flesh is a myriad of colours, from alabaster to ruddy, some people have tints of bronze some so pale as ivory just as black skin can go from lightly tanned to ebony

Peaches are not really the same colour as "flesh" .
Cameo pink (or ladies' underwear) describes it better to me.
What was meant by an olive complexion?

Have always called it peach?

I don’t think anybody ever had skin the colour of germolene though did they?

I was just going to say germolene pink. Now I'm wondering, isn't all flesh the same colour? Isn't it only the skin that varies? If so, we could stick to 'flesh coloured'.

the Earl of Belmore had to fight the trust to prevent it painting the drawing room at Castle Coole in Northern Ireland "germolene pink".
www.independent.co.uk/news/heritage-national-trust-blamed-for-soulless-stateley-homes-1259966.html?amp

Germolene pink, surely?
A National Trust property was painted that colour some years ago & it caused outrage

Jax Nude has the same problem as flesh…

Nude.

When I taught children the school had sets of colours in a box called “People Colours”. There were many different shades of brown, peach and other skin colours.