I can't really believe I'm doing this but my inner historian *insists*: Beige was once considered stylish!
Believe it or not, some savvy early computer manufacturers, Apple included, actually decided to make their boxes beige to better match the office decor of the mid to late 1970's so that they would be accepted next to the typewriters and telephones instead of looking "Sci-Fi" or nerdish.
Even the colour derided as beige is not the beige of yesteryear; it really is a darker tan colour than the lighter 'platinum gray' or 'off-white' most commonly derided today as the "beige box". Plenty of latitude remains for the use of 'putty' and 'taupe'. Considering that the fashion came on the heels of 'Harvest Gold", "Toasted Almond', and "Avocado Green" maybe we should consider ourselves lucky that beige has held up so well.
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Defending the Beige
I can't really believe I'm doing this but my inner historian *insists*: Beige was once considered stylish!
Believe it or not, some savvy early computer manufacturers, Apple included, actually decided to make their boxes beige to better match the office decor of the mid to late 1970's so that they would be accepted next to the typewriters and telephones instead of looking "Sci-Fi" or nerdish.
Even the colour derided as beige is not the beige of yesteryear; it really is a darker tan colour than the lighter 'platinum gray' or 'off-white' most commonly derided today as the "beige box". Plenty of latitude remains for the use of 'putty' and 'taupe'. Considering that the fashion came on the heels of 'Harvest Gold", "Toasted Almond', and "Avocado Green" maybe we should consider ourselves lucky that beige has held up so well.
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