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Paul, But he cannot even make the right choice from what I've bought. Anyway we don't argue. I just laugh about it, so do my daughters and granddaughter.

This is a subject close to my heart. My father is colour blind to the degree that the only way he knows the difference between the ed and green ;on; traffic lights is by the postition. He wanted to join the police, but was refused due to the degree of his colourblindness. My oldest son had problems at school with colours and was thought to be lazy when it come to learning his colours. Finally in his last year of infant school he was proven to be colour blind. Problem solved, or so I thought, until it came to high school. The art teacher he had gave him a horrendous time because she did not believe he had a problem (he managed to guess on occasion the right colour). He had been intent on joining the army and had revolved his whole life around this. I took him to an optition who specialized in colour-blindness and he confirmed that my son was so colour bling that he had no hope of joining any of the forces. My son is also left-handed with right eye dominence which for would be like closing one eye and aiming, now close the opposite eye and see the difference!!! At nearly 15 he has had to re-think his whole life. I am so proud of him because he has taken it all so well. He is now hoppung to get into college this year to study buisness. Sue:-)

I applied for a job once with a firm of photographic dye manufacturers. I was not acceptable as tests showed I was very slightly colour blind being unable to differentiate between two close shades of pink. They were kind enough to explain to me that 90% of men are colour blind to some degree as against 10% of women because mens eyesight has evolved for a different purpose and is better suited to night vision and detecting movement. Hence men can calculate speed, movement and trajectory at lightening speed whereas women are better equipped to spot different species of vegetation Len

I dont care what my hubby wears, as long as it's the look of love for me.

my husband is colour blind and i was told by a health visitor it skips a generation and our son wont be affected but our daughters son maybe. julie newport

Well Sylvia, if you buy most of his clothes then you can't complain about what he's wearing can you !!!!

No Paul in this case I am right. My husband hates shopping, unless it is for books. I buy most of his clothes without him being there at all. Trousers are a problem! Before I was on the scene, my husband had his sisters - 7 of them - to do his shopping. This way there are no disagreements. It is a good thing we're not all the same in this world. Variety is the spice of life!

mandy from somerset i found your reply very interesting and informative, nice to learn something new everyday sandra

Mandy, Very interesting, but we'll just have to live with it. Get used to it anyway.

Hi Sylvia Don't want to sound like a know-all, but I found out something interesting about colour blindness the other day from my optician. Apparently, only men are colour blind but the faulty gene comes from women. So because my husband is colour blind, it came from his mother - his sister won't be colour blind but if she were to have boys, then they might be. Similarly, my half-brother is colour blind which came from my birth mother, so if my son turns out to be colour blind, it will have come from his natural grandmother and not from his father as you might expect. Blimey - did that all make sense? :))))))))

Can I be devils advocate for a second. Have you ever thought it might be YOU that have no dress sense ? I wouldn't dream of trying to dress my wife, and she wouldn't me either. But then we both have impeccable taste lol

my dad, brothers and sons are all colour blind it does run in families,but i think men have hardly any taste in clothes at all my hubby chooses terrible clothes and wont ever give anything away even though its from the dark ages . I've tried to smarten him up but he will not wear what i like unless we are going to church or special times eg weddings.

If I don't watch what my husband wears, then he'll end up with a variety of colours which clash. I now put my husband's clean clothes out every day, so that every piece of clothing matches. I think my husband must be colour blind. Actually I know my son is, so must be hereditary.