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Is the color Nude a form of racism?

When we use the wording “Nude color” it is immediately clear to the tones we are referring to that they are those of the pink muted, soft colors, almost impalpable to be real passe-partouts: they can be easily combined with any other look and are synonymous with refinement and delicacy.

It's so common to refer to these tone with this term in the world of fashion we do not think, not even by mistake, than to indicate the colors listed above with "Nude” either if not a form of racism, at least a not too hidden reminiscence of this ugly story.

As the gnoli and every Anthropology manual custom is nothing more than a sociological-cultural construct of society and not a simple lightness, and refer to light pink, with “naked", “skin color”, as per "flesh-colored” par excellence it is nothing other than the testimony of supremacy of the Western white man, always a prevaricator of all other cultures.

La skin it's not just pink, it is also of many other shades and the color (or rather its texture) is almost not never solid colour: acne, enlarged pores, pimples, stretch marks, cellulite, vitiligo, scars…

The use of is accepted and consolidated in language Nude and after a few days I myself named the shades of two color variations of mine necklaces with this term.

This then led me to make this reflection, the term nell Shop online I haven't changed it, but I wanted to write this post as proof that perhaps something in the consciences of all of us is changing, and perhaps for the better (at least I hope).

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