what is the correct term for this colour?

Ha! Obviously not the FULL thread … I missed that it had been resurrected from 4 years ago! FannyCornforth had me doing a double take.

Casdon

I don’t think anybody ever had skin the colour of germolene though did they?

You beat me to it Casdon
Glad I read the thread before posting!

I just popped on to some lingerie sites for my favourite bras.
One brand still called the colour pale nude and neutral beige; the other site used sand, toast, or praline!

As an aside, I was a bit shocked at the prices! I guess I haven't purchased a bra for a while, but the costs have definitely increased!

Salmon pink is a bit to orange 🐖🐖

Salmon pink?

Pig Pink

I think we shouldn’t worry about such trivial things.

"Neutral" or "Bland"?

The ‘flesh’ colour yarn I buy (seemingly a mix of pink, soft yellow and cream) is called ‘Toy’ on the Wool Warehouse website.

I’d go for Crumpled Linen 3. I recall flesh-coloured as being more beige than pink. There’s a hollyhock shade that exactly fits it.

Bodach

I don't know about the rest of you, but the various different parts of my body are entirely different colours - ranging from pasty whiteish with flecks of grey, through purple blotched to dirty brown. Take your pick!

I daren't look some days.......

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Oh dear, old thread revived by a spammer.

Must be an alien as she thinks it's called teal or turquoise!

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

@ElaraWynn this thread is nearly 4 years old!

A so called white person isn’t white at all. The colour of my skin could never be called white even though I am a white person. I would never have used the term flesh coloured either. Nor am I peach coloured or pink. In fact I’m not sure that I can think of an appropriate descriptor.

OMG this has brought back so many things. American Tan stocking and tights- I always liked Mocha better. Nail varnish to stop ladders! Thank goodness for thick tights-hide everything and don't ladder!
As for the colour I spent years trying to change my skin colour from pale almost white to deep tan, it never worked all I got was rosy pink/red and then a few weeks with a lovely honey-gold until it faded and washed off. I've given up now and only sit in the sun lathered in factor 50.
As for the name pale pink will have to do

Pale peach?

There are so many ‘flesh’ colours, though, even in so-called ‘white’ people - if we’re talking faces, that is.

A sort of pinky-beige, a greyish-beige,, a purply-red (esp. old men fond of the booze) a toasted walnut (very outdoorsy in all weathers types) plus of course the honey-cream or porcelain-cream for the very lucky ones (not me, alas).

I used a light beige yarn for the faces of my Nativity set figures, not the prescribed ‘light pink’, which didn’t seem right for the area, and a darker beige for the 3 kings, since they’d come ‘from Persian lands afar’. ?

But Naples Yellow is also a "white flesh" tone.

Chestnut

We'll have to stick to Crumpled Linen 3 for the colour of European skin, as per the Dulux chart! ??

Don’t they do Natural Hessian anymore?
I’d go for that. If I stood next to my walls you wouldn’t see my legs.

I can understand why the term flesh would be offensive.

I asked a dog owner if her animal was a dog or a bitch and she was mortified.
I heard her tell her children it's a girl dog or a boy dog .

I don't see anything wrong is calling an actress an actress .

The whole world has gone silly .

Or perhaps it should be 'Northern European' skin because Southern European is a shade darker.

We'll have to stick to Crumpled Linen 3 for the colour of European skin, as per the Dulux chart! ??

Well Nude won't describe the colour because they now do various shades of nude!

Nude Shoes

To me, 'wabbit' is how I feel (weary) and 'peely wally' is how I look (pale and worn). Literally 'scunner' means vomit. To be if something 'gars ye scunner' it makes you throw up.