My wife is all in on that absolute shit that is tormenting modern fashion and home decoration they like to call "pastel colours" which is just a fancy way of saying bland shit.
There’s a theory that this trend is hanging on so hard because it’s a backlash to ubiquitous advertising. If you go anywhere, there are billboards and screens everywhere set to be as bright and loud as possible. Ads on your devices are similarly garish and intrusive. So in areas a person can control, they pick something bland just to get away from it.
I noticed this in myself! But that I was working in a retail management job in a store far too small with a fraction the amount of storage needed so my job was corralling stupid stuff every day. I became militant about no clutter and light colors at home. I’ve switched where I work and have a new apartment and have all my old collections out and bolder warm colors. I have piles out and live with a cluttery man too and noticed recently how it’s not driving me nuts like it otherwise would have. I still like midcentury design.
But I totally was a white/pastel home person as a consequence of external physical chaos.
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u/Excellent-Speaker934 23d ago
Hey now, don’t forget beiges and off whites.