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JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Simon of the Playa » Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:26 pm

really.

you're way over thinking this.

nothing you have carefully selected will be able to be seen because it will be covered in dust and it will be white-out conditions most of the time so why bother?

form follows function, kick it with Khaki.


fuck, if you got a pair of tan colored MembersOnly™ sweat pants and a dirty wife beater i would just sport that all week.

be practical, if you heed my advice you'll have a lot more space in your luggage for booze.

BTW.....Dusty Russians are gonna be big this year, they are slightly different than a mudslide...
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

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Re: JUST WEAR BIEGE.

Postby theCryptofishist » Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:30 pm

What about a landslide?

And the Just Wear Beige campaign is a dogsend for those of us who are color-blind. (I'd say "colour-blind", but Simon would think I'm Canadian, when I really come from a family of anglo-philes.)

Another advantage is that you can wash all your clothes in one load and no longer have to use hot water. Beige is Enviro!
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Postby H.G.Crosby » Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:32 pm

i like 1200 count egyptian cotton...

but thats me..


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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby thisisthatwhichis » Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:03 pm

Nice, and don't forget to visit the Dusty Russian Playa Collection(tm) for 2012 here: http://eplaya.burningman.com/viewtopic.php?f=283&t=52298


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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Bob » Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:10 pm

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby wh..sh » Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:29 pm

Thats what he said.

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Elorrum » Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:55 pm

remember if you are going to really blend in, be safe.

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Trishntek » Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:01 pm

Simon, just for you, I actually broke down and bought some beige desert boots. So when you see my naked self, you won't freak out over my flip flops.
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Ratty » Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:07 pm

I just bought a LARGE bundle of beige gauze. ($5 at the local second hand). 36" X 100 yards. I couldn't resist and now I'm stumped. I could wrap up the Union Army, put up a trash fence for feathers or make a hell of a Halloween Haunted House. For Burning man? I dunno.
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Simon of the Playa » Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:46 pm

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby AntiM » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:37 pm

I rather like white, it matches the art.

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Simon of the Playa » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:50 pm

white is popular in utah...

and in the High Atlas too.
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Savannah » Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:09 pm

AntiM wrote:I rather like white, it matches the art.

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Pretty. :)
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby wh..sh » Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:52 am

AntiM wrote:I rather like white, it matches the art.

AntiM: First that gorgeous blue dress, now the white! Gosh, you look so dreamy...
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby catinthefunnyhat » Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:01 am

I am looking forward to seeing AntiM in person. In photos, she's breathtaking. The smooth skin is a big part of that. But mostly, I think, it's her expressions: She has this serenity about her, but there's a fiery pride in her eyes.

(To me, this pic is mostly about the serenity, as her eyes aren't facing the camera. Of course, the composition of the photo, with all of the white, really emphasizes that. But it's there in all the pics).
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby wh..sh » Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:13 am

I agree, she imparts a sense of serenity.
AntiM in blue = Breathtaking!
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby FIGJAM » Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:14 am

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby AntiM » Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:34 am

wh..sh wrote:I agree, she imparts a sense of serenity.
AntiM in blue = Breathtaking!


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2004 was the cancer year, I was hopped up on Lortabs. Or maybe Vicodin. Either way, dreamy is an understatement!
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby theCryptofishist » Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:17 am

The good news is if you wear beige feathers, no one will notice! Beige glitter, too.
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Savannah » Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:33 am

theCryptofishist wrote:The good news is if you wear beige feathers, no one will notice! Beige glitter, too.


I shall wear nothing BUT. :shock:


. . . Okay, the very thought is making me laugh so hard that I have tears in my eyes. Can you imagine? Beige feathers and glitter? So hideous and wrong. And I'm already very beige, so it would like . . . the worst, most perverse form of environmentally disastrous desert camouflage, this feathery glittery indefinite thing, this sparkling Cthulu MENACE shimmering across the dust like a mirage, haunting the peripherals but never in full view, hard to see, like the monster in Predator, only Sparklep0wnied-up . . . the only thing one's vision could grab hold of would be the glittering, manic eyes in the center (and I assure you, they would be glittering like a wolf's, because I would have to have the contents of Hunter S. Thompson's Great Red Shark's drug suitcase in my stomach to wear feathers out there).
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby catinthefunnyhat » Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:35 am

Savannah wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:The good news is if you wear beige feathers, no one will notice! Beige glitter, too.


I shall wear nothing BUT. :shock:


. . . Okay, the very thought is making me laugh so hard that I have tears in my eyes. Can you imagine? Beige feathers and glitter? So hideous and wrong. And I'm already very beige, so it would like . . . the worst, most perverse form of environmentally disastrous desert camouflage, this feathery glittery indefinite thing, this sparkling Cthulu MENACE shimmering across the dust like a mirage, haunting the peripherals but never in full view, hard to see, like the monster in Predator, only Sparklep0wnied-up . . . the only thing one's vision could grab hold of would be the glittering, manic eyes in the center (and I assure you, they would be glittering like a wolf's, because I would have to have the contents of Hunter S. Thompson's Great Red Shark's drug suitcase in my stomach to wear feathers out there).


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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Fufa » Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:00 pm

loincloth (optional) + glue bath + double-sided playa angels, and you're set for the week!

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Savannah » Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:03 pm

You had me at "glue bath". :shock:
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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby illy dilly » Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:17 pm

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Simon of the Playa » Wed Jul 11, 2012 2:07 pm

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby theCryptofishist » Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:29 pm

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Postby Simon of the Playa » Wed Aug 15, 2012 4:29 pm

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Foxfur » Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:24 pm

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Re: JUST WEAR BEIGE.

Postby Super Evil Brian » Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:50 pm

I wear a lot of kaki as it is ... or maybe beige.

I have a canvas-colour Tilley hat I may wear, but I also have a nifty Outdoor Research hat that's sort of light beige, maybe off-white.

I'm not wearing practical desert combat boots this year in favor of less-breathable black Doc Martens. I have a 100-weight black fleece vest that will be a dusty shade of off-white the moment I put it on that first chilly night.

Beige glitter is an excellent idea, as are beige feathers. Maybe a beige boa -- no, no boas or feathers or glitter. I can imagine the horror of trying to find the beige, dusty moop as those horrible things disintegrate and float about littering the playa.

The glue bath reminds me of a movie I saw with the Japanese girl and a bunch of guys standing around her ...
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