![]() ![]() These names may also be used to apply to slightly different colours. There’s flexibility in naming a colour, and many of these colours are so close that there’s never one right name for any specific colour. Every colour in this range is part of the same family of colours, making up lighter warm-toned neutrals. We have names for describing different variations of beige, which sits somewhere between off-white and light brown. In French it originally meant the colour of natural wool. What’s in a Name?ĭ defines beige as, “very light brown, as of undyed wool light gray with a brownish tinge.” That provides a general idea of the colour, but it isn’t particularly specific. It’s dull and is not as fashionable as grey is, though it had its moments in the 1970s and 1980s.īeige is a classic part of menswear, and because we can’t avoid it it would help us to better know a few of its countless variations. The average man reaches for a shade of beige when they want trousers more formal than jeans but not as dressy as grey flannels, but beige is not usually a colour men wear with excitement. Beige is not an exciting colour, but it is one that many men-both well-dressed and poorly-dressed-wear frequently.
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