Friday, January 6, 2012

Spooky Colors in Casual Male Catalog

I was looking through the Casual Male catalog and I noticed a spooky color called "griffin grey."  How awesome is that?  So I thought, if they have one cool color they might have more, right?  So I went through the whole catalog color by color and discovered that they not only have one, but eleven!  So, here's the list...

-griffin grey
-dark shadow
-raven grey
-gothic grape purple
-black forest green
-forest night heather
-carbon heather
-midnight
-rivet grey
-gunmetal grey
-ghost blue

My fav. color name is "raven grey," for obvious reasons.  Lol.  The silliest I think is gothic grape purple, it just sounds funny.  I wonder why they made "ghost blue"?  When I think of ghosts, I don't think of them as being blue, unless it's Inky from Pac Man.  I don't remeber what the color looked like in the catalog and I wrote these names down a while back.  I just checked the website and when I search for "ghost blue" no items come up, so next time I get a catalog, I'll update this. 

I also like "dark shadow" because of the original show, not the remake, it sucked.  Also Tim Burton is making a Dark Shadows movie with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.  Not to mention Christopher Lee (old school Dracula).  That reminds me, I need to finish watching all of the Dark Shadows episodes on Netflix before the movie comes out in May.

I love how they try to make colors of men's clothes "manly".  Like a pink shirt is not called pink, it's called salmon, because it's the color of a salmon, which is PINK!  Some of the other colors in the catalog I had to google because I didn't know what they were.  Like demitasse brown, I was like WTH is that?  Apparently it's a small cup used to serve arabic coffee or espresso.  Then sometimes red is just called red.  Why is that?  They couldn't think of a manly red name?  How about "blood red" or "rogue red."  Ha ha!  I think Casual Male should hire me as their color namer.  What do you all think?  ;)

Update: I looked at "ghost blue" in the new catalog & it looks more like purple to me not like Inky the ghost from Pac Man.