what is the correct term for this colour?

I think they are old and traditional, Welbeck and I certainly knew them when I was growing up eighty years ago. Perhaps you were born later than me, or lived in a different area.

Nude was a colour for stockings, flesh-colour for lots of things.

i'd never heard of flesh as a colour descriptor, nor nude, until i saw it on something recently and was puzzled.
i didn't realise it was referring to the colour tint of the garment.
i somehow thought it meant you wear it when you are nude; which doesn't make much sense.
i find both terms faintly repulsive. and sexist somehow.
i don't think they should be using terms that are suggestive of female undressed-ness.
so i am all for banning them.
i don't think they are very traditional anyway, are they ?
or i would have heard of them growing up. maybe.

peely wally is how I used to look when I was wearing a suspender belt or girdle and a sanitary belt at the same time!

"Washed oot -looking" sums it up too.

ballet shoe pink? Although these days they come in different shades too to fit the skin tone of the dancer wearing them.

Most of us have a clear idea of the shade of pink used for satin ballet shoes.

AmberSpyglass

There’s a lipstick called Tea Rose that suits me perfectly but for discontinued. People are selling it on eBay etc but I don’t think I can buy a second hand lipstick!

Yucky yucky poo, I agree! I am also suspicious of online perfume in case they have filled the bottle with something cheap and nasty .

There’s a lipstick called Tea Rose that suits me perfectly but for discontinued. People are selling it on eBay etc but I don’t think I can buy a second hand lipstick!

Or English rose come to that. That’s what they used to say about Princess Di. Flesh coloured always made me think of old frumps with bad taste.

Am I the only one who remembers "tea rose" ?

FannyCornforth

*Mary*, I think that had you asked me what scunnered meant (only found out today!) I would have said ‘drunk’!

If only Fanny, if only! ?
My mother's two most used words werewabbit and scunnered. She was not a happy woman.?

Not that I’m suggesting anything!
Oh dear…

Mary, I think that had you asked me what scunnered meant (only found out today!) I would have said ‘drunk’!

If you think about it flesh colour could be any colour human skin. However the word flesh was used for white consumers originally but I never thought my skin looked that pinky colour anyway. I bet a flesh eating shark isn’t worried what colour the flesh is!

What about feeling scunnered, which is what you usually feel like when you are wabbit and peely wally?
Exactly describes my mood today.?

Elegran thank you. Like you I cannot get my head around the size stuff either.
M&S in particular is terrible for it. So many things sold out in sizes 18 and above

FannyCornforth Wabbit is almost interchangeable with peely wally. it is how you look and feel when you are no' weel, exhausted or knackerood.

AmberSpyglass somehow, there seem to be more large ladies in flesh-colour pale pink/beige clothe than there are slim ones.

It could be because the clothes shops stock far more skinny clothes than they do the larger sizes (in spite of the average size for a woman in the UK being a 16, so there should be as many size 18, 20, 22, and 24 on the rails as there are 14, 12, 10 and 8) so they don't have a lot of choice.

Perhaps if they had more racks of things in larger sizes and fashionable styles and attractive colours, the more generously built of us would spend more on clothes, thus increasing their turnover.

Well Dulux seem to have a selection of names.

I'd say Crumpled Linen 3 is the name we're looking for, unless you've had two weeks in Benidorm, then you might be Crumpled Linen 1. ?

Baggs

peely wally

I had absolutely no idea what this meant. I’m determined to use it often now.
And ‘wabbit’, not a clue

Elegran Do slimmer women not also look like they’ve just got out of the shower? Trying to work out why fat bodies would be different…

peely wally

We moved into a house that was painted 'flesh' colour in every room - including the ceiling and doors.

I called it artificial limb pink - very un-pc I know. I couldn't think of any other way to describe it.

This was a long time ago and I appreciate that artificial limbs now come in many colours and patterns . No offense was intended.

Grammaretto I used to borrow mum's stockings held up by a suspender belt. If I happened to need a sanitary belt at the same time life was very complicated

Oh yes

I have always described it as flesh colour.....

I remember 'flesh' coloured tights. Teale? To me it is turquoise! ha ha

M0nica

Flesh is blood red anyway, so the word was always a misnomer for the colour. I have always called it 'underwear pink' because in my youth corsets were always that colour.

My mother always called it "corset pink".

I have seen large ladies in clothes that colour who look as though they have just stepped out of the shower and forgotten to grab a towel.