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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Thought this might be a fun topic. I'm not talking about things that are actually incorrect, impossible or sci-fi/fantasy, but things that could be real and seem common in general fiction but you never or hardly ever see them in your own day-to-day life.
Some random examples from my own reading:
Why do women in books wear yellow so often, regardless of their own coloring? It's not a color that looks good on just anybody. I don't notice a lot of women wearing yellow IRL.
What's up with all the people in books pinching the bridge of their nose when under stress? I've never noticed anyone in real life doing this.
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Originally Posted by meeera
Yellow looks terrific on a lot of people who don't have pale skin, which is the vast majority of the world's population, so I don't see why that's odd.
Pinching your nose - sure, I would have thought most spectacle wearers would recognise this? It's not pinching your nostrils shut or anything, it's a sort of pinched-hand lifting-your-glasses action. Less of a stress action and more of a frustration thing.
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Sure, there are people who look good in yellow. That's why I said "regardless of their coloring". Women in books seem to wear yellow a lot no matter what the woman looks like, even if the color would probably look bad on them.
I wonder if writers just figure that naming a bright color is more likely to put an image in the reader's mind?
I agree about the glasses thing (I wear glasses myself). But people in books seem to pinch the bridge of their nose all the time as a sign of stress. Most of these characters don't even wear glasses. That's why I find it strange.