Caution: CULLAH Ahead

Let’s tawk about CULLAH.
Bright CULLAH, as you have heard PeaceBang say, is best used in little doses as a POP. You don’t want to sear people’s retinas when you walk through the door, and especially if they’re in delicate condition on the cardiac care ward. There’s a lot of CULLAH out there for the Spring season and some of it is pretty aggressive.


Ouch! Neon Leprechaun!


Ew! Acid Rain Daffodil!


Look! It’s a Daddy Loud Legs! Put it outside! (Click to enlarge)

A couple of things to think about, sweetlings.
First of all, if the color is not to be found in nature, use it very sparingly.
Second, if you have bright fake colored hair, avoid any loud colors on your person or risk looking like a clown. It’s not a look I recommend.
Third, bright colored pants don’t really belong on anyone but the very young and trim. This isn’t to say that I don’t myself have some green jeans and a pair of purple jeans, but DO AS I DO, NOT AS I SAY. I mean, DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO. I look very silly in my colored pants but I’m a Recovering Bohemian and I bought those pants last summer when I was spending all my time at the theatre. If I wear them to church it is always with black on top. The purple jeans look perfectly fine for work but there is no excuse whatsoever for the green ones, which I really ought to give away immediately. They are hideous and inappropriate.

Now I’m off to pretend I know the first thing about football when I really just in it for the company and the Doritos and chicken wings. Consider that my confession for the evening and GO RED SOX! Something like that! Homerun!

2 Replies to “Caution: CULLAH Ahead”

  1. I had noticed the bright pant trend this Fall, and it seems to be continuing for Spring, with the added level of pastel colored pants for seasonal variety. I thought I was being a stick in the mud, but you are confirming my hunch that these we not for me. I did stretch myself with pants and color with a dark turquoise pair that are not a bit garish.

    Several times this fall, my immediate response when speaking with some folks was “Pardon me. I cannot hear you, your pants are too loud.

  2. Hello PB! I’m so glad you mentioned the bright colored jean trend. I would like to suggest respectfully that it can be rocked by even middle-aged medium-sized folk. I especially suggest Target’s skinny Mossimo jean in a Fit 4 for the curvy type.

    I am sitting here wearing a dark periwinkle pair (I am working from home today) with a gray top and a muted scarf that brings it together because you have taught me to ACCESSORIZE, dear woman, even when I am at home with a sick kid.

    And I will confess to buying a bright red pair at Christmas time that I have continued to wear because I like them.

    Here is a question, though: Around here (frosty Midwestern college town), the young things wear their skinny jeans with flat-heeled ugh-y Uggs or other calf- or knee-high boots. I tried that and thought it made my legs look like stovepipes. So I wear mine with an ankle-high boot to keep the line going. What do you think? What is the proper footwear?

    Hugs to you, Fashion Maven.

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