today so why the difference. to understand that we need to delve into physics color is an effect of light and without light everything turns black. the light from the sun may look white but it's actually a mixture of a range of wavelengths some of them are invisible to the human eye like ultraviolet rays other parts of the spectrum of visible to us and we see them as red orange yellow green blue violet. and when they're mixed together we can see the light as white. so why do different things have different colors. because they absorb different parts of the light spectrum the rest is reflected and picked up by the receptors in the eye of. the material the jacket is made of absorbs blue green and yellow light red like to be