beware the new lime green!

I call it "bilious" green!

I'm a blue person and never wear green.(unless I'm doing it with white and purple to disguise myself as a suffragette)

Brazilian friends bought me a bright orange top for my birthday last year, now I am a large lady with dark red hair, i thought ummm.
Put it on and all friends at the party just raved about it, inc DD and SO. It so suits me, I would never ever have even tried it on. When i get some extra cash i am going to ask my Brazilian friend to go shopping with me.

I had a pair of soft mini cord lime green hipster trousers back in 1969. I thought they were the bees knees. They did really suit me but then I was only a size 8 - ah, to dream

I do not do many greens at all. It's the reds and greens that are on the yellow side of the spectrum that do not look at all good on me. Greens and red on the bluish side can be OK. If you know what I mean.

I'd never thought of buying anything in lime green but once found a short-sleeved cardigan in that colour which turned out to look just right on me. It's long gone now but I have never been able to find anything else in just that shade.

Although I know someone with very blonde or white hair and a very pink complexion and she looks good in it. It just makes me look dreadful (as does grey)

I think it works with olivey skin tones but not pinky ones. But it does have to be a nice green not a bilious one.

DD can and has worn lime-green. It is a most unflattering colour on me. The overall effect is of death and decay.

Her sister was at my school, she was very conservative (small c) and very embarrassed by her flamboyant sister!

But I did have white stilettos - winkle pickers.

I remember the luminous socks but never wore them - even in my teens I had better taste!

I knew a girl who wore those luminous socks with white stilettos

The green would do nothing for me at all, I would look even worse

Tegan sometimes it's good to try colours that you may not normally go for, you may be surprised and pleased [or not] but worth a try. Sometimes a bit of colour or a 'pop' of colour as all the trendy darlings say, can work wonders.

petra did you have a teddy boy boyfriend? In fact those late 50's bright colours were very popular with womens clothes too, as I remember my mother wearing a bright screaming pink cardigan. This new green colour is not really lime green as such, it's so acid that it's toxic!

Does the colour remind anyone of the fashion with socks in the late 50s.
If memory serves me correct, they came in green, pink, orange. Or did I dream that. LOL.

mollie65!

must be trying to get rid of what they couldn't sell 2 or 3 years ago.

might be good for walking, H&S and all that

bought a fleece in lime green a year or two back as it was on sale (wonder why) and the first time I visited family they saw the fleece fluorescing thru the front door and thought I was a very short policewoman or a dwarf workman.
it has faded since with washing but I only wear it for dog-walking and not when I will be mistaken for a short anything

The only way I could get away with a vivid colour like that would to wear it as a cami/top type thing under a black suit.

The right lime green can be flattering for some of us. But I know what you mean - M and S were favouring a particularly acidic version a couple of years back. Hideous.

I bought a top from Laura Ashley a few years ago that was lime green with pink flowers. Now, I wear grey, black or brown, and definately no flowers but this top is really flattering [I bought two in the end cause they were on offer]. It was quite a 'soft' lime green, though [if that's possible].I would never have dreamed of trying it on if I hadn't been trying on a grey one at the same time. In fact, I've been going into a second hand designer shop in the next village looking for clothes for a wedding,and she's been persuading me to try on things that I wouldn't have tried myself.

However, I wouldn't mind a necklace or bracelet in that shade, but a whole garment would be too much.