Category: Daily Living
Yea for the new daily living board.
I'm just wondering how you all deal with identifying clothing. I have a talking color identifier that is semi-reliable. I have also used those Braille clothing tags and the Match Maker pins. Just wondering what you all use and find most helpful.
i used one of those once, but half of the time it never got the collours rite.
so now, i just use my sight (or what i have) to identify
Although I also have those aluminum clothing tags, the Matchmaker system, and a
talking color identifier, I don't use them much for clothing really. *smile* I try to go by
material and the styles of clothing, such as not using certain types of clothing together,
stuff like that. I mostly have jeans and some dress-up pants (mostly all solid colors),
long dresses, white socks and solid colored stockings, shirts with either solid colors or sometimes with certain theme pictures (no
spotted/striped stuff), and one pair of tennies, and two pairs of dress-up shoes.
Sometimes I use the color identifier just to make sure of the colors, and for me it is
pretty accurate most of the time. I'm also wanting to use the aluminum clothing tags, but I don't know how to sew. The Matchmaker pins I don't use for clothing IDing, I use them more to keep my pairs of socks together.
i use the talking color identifier, i think it works really well for clothing, but wouldn't use as my primary source.
I hope the color identifiers have improved since I played with them about five or six years ago. I found it unreliable. We were curious about them, so we put the device against people's skins (of different colors.) I think we were all dead, because the responses were really odd. White and dark-skinned individuals were all pale shades of grey. We had people of varying skin tones try the device, and we had the same experience. Having said that, I also use the type of material, the cut of the neckline (in the case of shirts), and the location of care tags. I'm not as organized as I need to be, but I also tend to use solid colors except for ties.
Lou
Interesting. Well, I don't know how different the different color identifiers are as far as accuracy, but I have a Colorino, which I bought somewhere at the beginning of this year. (actually, although I do use it for colors, I mostly use it for light detection more, which is very helpful.) Anyway, it calls my skin "brown orange". I know what "brown" and "orange" look like, but I'm still trying to picture a combination of them. What color is "brown orange"? I'm honestly curious for anyone who would know that one. *smile*
I use the Cobalt color identifier and it works pretty well. I wish it could actually describe patterns though, that'd be cool.
I often will buy the same style of shirt or pants or skirt in different colors, that is why I need a system for identifying colors because just feeling the material is not going to tell me enough. But I generally use the talking color identifier as insurance, but not necessarily as my primary way of identifying colors. Some of the weird things it does is say "light dusty pink" or "light gray" for white. It will say "black with shades of brown" for very dark brown and "black with shades of red" for dark red. It calls many shades of green "gray." The only time it actually says the word "green" is if the item is a very bright lime green color. So it definitely has its limitations.
You don't have to sew to use those Braille tags as you can use a safety pin to pin them to your clothes.
I use the tags and the talking identifier. I have one that has a calibration button on it. It seems pretty close.
Troy
I too, use the Cobolt version. That is to say, I use it if I really have no other choice. For the most part, I rely on my residual sight and when I buy clothes, I'll ask whoever I'm with what I could wear what every I'm buying with, just so that I have an idea. I do with that the colour detectors could tell if something was spotty or stripey etc. I wear funky socks, so it'd be pretty helpful. I havent' sussed out a clever way of sock pairing yet. Any help on that would actually be well received, lol. Cheers, Danielle
I would just pin matching socks together in the drawer and for laundry. As soon as you take the socks off at the end of the day, pin them together until the next time you wear them.
I try to buy pieces of clothing that are different from each of their counter parts in some way shape or form. If I find a blouse that I like in several colors I'll perhaps buy a red one with a round neck, and a purple one with a V neck. Or with similar sweaters in different colors I might buy a green cable nit and a yellow fisherman's nit. When I purchase several items that differ from one another purely in their color I use the small metal color tags and attach them with safety pins to the insides of the waist bands, and then I sew the tags in later onto the care lables if I have time. The tags do run a bit on the expensive side though for what they truly are. That's why I only use them when absolutely neccessary. With any of my broadway T-shirts or band shirts I have someone describe them in great detail to me when i purchase them and I just memorize the feel of the writing and the picture. Knowing how to read print, tactally is very helpful, and also memorizing both the back and front of the shirt, especially in cases where there is a logo or a picture on both sides can be of help. When I have washed and dried them I hang them in a very spacific order, identifying their subtle differences or identifying their pictures ahead of time, so that I won't have to fight with massive amounts of clothing when I'm in a rush to dress and get to class in the morning.
it's funny how you never think of the simple things, well, in my case anyway, lol. Thanks Becky...... smile
Well, I have a color-identifier, and it's great for matching socks, and it is pretty reliable with colors. It came out several years ago, so it's not as new as the models now. Now, if I've had a dress, skirt, blouse, or pant suit for quite awhile, I remember what color it is by the feel of the fabric, unless the fabric is like something else's. But, you can also go by buttons, or other accessories.
yeah, color indicators suck... it told me that my skin was orange.. no? its white you retarded piece of shit, anyway i just remember what the fabric feels like or the logo, i wear lots of jeans and brand-name shirts and shoes, so i can feel if the shirt says "american eagle" or "roxy" o whatever... yeah
I have a colorino and it works great. I hate the light sensor though because it squeaks something offal.
The thing to understand about color identifiers is that there is an infinite number of colors and only a hand full of words to describe those colors. Typically, a person's skin color will not be reported as "white" or "black" because skin tone can vary from person to person. I am black and my skin is reported as "brown" while a friend who is white receives a report of "orange" or "yellow." When I had vision, I don't recall seeing many people as white as paper or as black as coal.
I use a color identifier for clothes. I got mine from a place in Canada called brytech. I would recomend it to anyone who is not a Native speaker of English, because the color identifier can speak the colors in spanish and French.
What is the name of the device you have from brytech?
I have heard that talking color identifiers are really expensive. I just ask a sighted person to tell me what the colors of my clothes are when I'm washing or buying them, so I can sew different shaped buttons on them. Even though I have sewn different shaped buttons for different colors onto the inside of my clothes, most of them fall off and I haven't had time to sew buttons onto quite a few of clothes yet, anyway.
I'd recommend the colourino from computer room services, yes they are expencive, but if you've got no sighted help they are wonderful.
also, trying to do skin colour withone of those electronic colour identifyers is a non starter.
Haha, the Colorino informs me that my skin is "very light beige," but it's accurate enough with clothes.
I have been playing with my friend's color detector and it said my fingers were red and my hair was dark green, but then it changed and said my hair was brown. #That's a bit weird. In the UK, you can buy them for £49.99. I didn't know that until a coupleof weeks ago.
tried to buy a talking color detector from the cobol onlineshop, but it as being stupid and wouldn't accept my credit card.
I managed to purchase my talking color deector online today, so hopefully it'll be here before I go home for Christmas.
I got my talking color detector on Thursday and it's quite elpful. The only thing is, it told me my slippers were green wen they're not and I have to hold it right up against whatever it is so no light gets in so it'll tell me the right color.
That kinda makes sense, because you want to make sure the sensor has a really accurate view of the color you're trying to find. Only concern have about that is that if something has really wide stripes or is multicolored.
Lou
That's true, because I got a black and white top for hristmas and the color detector said it was grey because it was looking at the black and white together.