Something that effects many (8+%) men is color blindness, most commonly red-green, but there are other variants. I'm wondering how color blind people out there handle fashion.

Personally, my case is not that severe (and I got better night / distance vision in compensation, more rods, less cones), but I'm still aware that 95+% of people see colors differently. This leads me to conservative choices, neutral + one color generally, perhaps with shades. Generally that means black + dark peacock tones + silver in my case, gothic tendencies, and I dress mostly to please myself, but still, one wonders how it's seen.

Those with it, what are your strategies ? Are there trust worthy guides that don't look bad to you? I find some color combinations that are usually considered good pretty off. Perhaps a list of color combinations that the general population finds bad to avoid?

Those without it, what are your thoughts?

What am I missing?

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I'm not colourblind, but being a man you are "lucky" the societal expectation is that you'll dress conservatively, which includes colours. One could say your colour choices are not that much your own as you think.

One time I was walking around Matera in Italy and there were lots of clothes drying on clotheslines outside people's windows. I was thinking maybe they should change the colours on the flag to black, brown and navy, because that's all they wear.

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