K.D. Lightner
Call Me a Cab
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Boy, do I get confused!! I peruse fedoras on Ebay and hat stores on the internet. Recently, I have been trying to purchase a light gray hat with a decent brim ( 2 1/2" up to 3").
First of all, my monitor is not trustworthy on depicting a gray/grey color. Darker grays seem to look medium gray and medium grays look light. Some of the lighter grays seem almost white, and sometimes tan looks gray, as well as a few other colors. So, I have to ask questions.
Then, there are the Ebay sellers who do not know gray(or grey) from Silverbelly and so describe a hat as light gray when it is not. Recently, I purchased an Akubra Squatter, which was described by the seller as light gray. When I got it, it turned out to be what I would call a steely gray, hardly light gray, which I envision as something way closer to white than to black. I think what I got was one called Moonstone.
Finally, there are all the colors listed as gray. Some I can envision regardless of the photos on my monitor,i.e., Charcoal gray, Steel gray, Iron Gray, etc. But, even these can differ from hat to hat.
Here are some hat colors that have been seen as light gray on my monitor:
Caribou, Senate, Bark, Sand, Silverbelly, Almond, Taupe, Pearl, Pearl Gray, Steel Gray, Iron Gray, Light Gray, Crystal, Silver, Silver Mist, Silver Gray, Pale, Mist Grey, Medium Gray, Bankers Gray, Gray Heather, Ivory, Saber, Graphite, Off-White, Winter White -- boy, have I missed any??
What's a girl to do?!!?
karol
First of all, my monitor is not trustworthy on depicting a gray/grey color. Darker grays seem to look medium gray and medium grays look light. Some of the lighter grays seem almost white, and sometimes tan looks gray, as well as a few other colors. So, I have to ask questions.
Then, there are the Ebay sellers who do not know gray(or grey) from Silverbelly and so describe a hat as light gray when it is not. Recently, I purchased an Akubra Squatter, which was described by the seller as light gray. When I got it, it turned out to be what I would call a steely gray, hardly light gray, which I envision as something way closer to white than to black. I think what I got was one called Moonstone.
Finally, there are all the colors listed as gray. Some I can envision regardless of the photos on my monitor,i.e., Charcoal gray, Steel gray, Iron Gray, etc. But, even these can differ from hat to hat.
Here are some hat colors that have been seen as light gray on my monitor:
Caribou, Senate, Bark, Sand, Silverbelly, Almond, Taupe, Pearl, Pearl Gray, Steel Gray, Iron Gray, Light Gray, Crystal, Silver, Silver Mist, Silver Gray, Pale, Mist Grey, Medium Gray, Bankers Gray, Gray Heather, Ivory, Saber, Graphite, Off-White, Winter White -- boy, have I missed any??
What's a girl to do?!!?
karol