Wearing Patterns and Prints

[ysabetwordsmith]

This article illustrates many different types of patterns and prints, along with underlying logic about how to wear them.  Read it for the vocabulary even if you're not into fashion.  Some of these terms were new to me, which is saying a lot.

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Re: Yay!

[acelightning73]

I have used a number of glow-in-the-dark and black light materials (ranging from paint to ink to markers) - when I was a kid, I once had my bedroom ceiling covered in stick-on GITD stars (although not mapped directly to the actual patterns in the sky)The effect when someone's disco shirt design shows up in bright sunlight is always startling :-)

Re: Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I am a huge fan of things that glow in the dark, and almost as fond of blacklight things. My eyes are equipped to see both as shinier than average, so I can tell what they are even when it shouldn't show to ordinary humans.

With a big enough piece -- I have a dragon statue that will do this -- and just the right lighting, it is even possible to activate both reflected light and glow at the same time. Pink dragon, glows green, and the effect in halflight is eerie and beautiful.

Re: Yay!

[acelightning73]

I can see UV (natural tetrachromat, AFAIKD). but I know that glow/reflected look. They used to sometimes sneak a little white light into the black-light disco, and you'd see both colors. (If one has chemically adjusted ones perceptions ahead of time, the effect is far more dramatic.)