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Have you ever stopped to think about the color nude?<\/p>\n

Have you ever stood nude in front of a mirror and tried to describe the color of your skin?<\/p>\n

And do you think your descriptors would be the same as if your neighbors, coworkers or classmates tried the same exercise?<\/p>\n

Most likely not.<\/p>\n

However, for a long time in the fashion industry, the color “nude” or “flesh” referred to a medium range color of caucasian skin. Do a google search for “nude bras<\/a>” and you would probably end up with results similar to this:<\/p>\n

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Full transparency: This is a screenshot of a google search from yesterday. To some, nude still means the color you see above.<\/p>\n

The other day I made an appointment to try on wedding dresses (Eeee! Finally found the one!) and was advised to bring nude undergarments in my appointment reminder email. While I am sure any bride-to-be can figure out that if you don’t want your undergarments to show, they should match the color of your skin, I had a moment of pause when I read the word “nude” as a color descriptor. There really is no one<\/em> nude color. However, I did find one article<\/a> that lists all kinds of bra options for those who aren’t beige!<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we have all kinds of opportunity to explore color in fashion (and to realize that “nude” really is a state of undress and “flesh-toned” depends on which of the 7.7 billion people on earth you are referring to). Speaking of people around the world, we aren’t the only ones thinking about color as it relates skin tone. Meet Ang\u00e9lica Dass and her change-the-way-you-think photography project, Humanae<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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