Don’t Count Out the Cloth Coat
It’s a retort, one forecaster said, to “too many soft clothes, too many elastic waists. We’re all craving a little structure now.”
Putting the YGB in Roy G. Biv: from left, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Roy Blunt, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff, at the inauguration of Mr. Biden.Credit.Pool photo by Melina Mara
Published March 9, 2021Updated March 10, 2021
In his nationally televised “Checkers” speech of 1952, Richard Nixon, a vice-presidential candidate at the time, aggressively hoisted his Everyman flag. “Pat doesn’t have a mink coat,” he famously said of his wife, “but she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat.”
These Are the Paint Colors You’ll See Everywhere in 2021
We asked the
experts they predict that calming colors will help us reset after the wild ride that was 2020.
By Melissa Feldman Farrow & Ball
It’s well known that your emotional state is inextricably linked to your environment, so it’s hardly a surprise that after the trying year we’ve had in 2020, everyone has the urge to conjure up calm as we enter into 2021. Accordingly, designers and color experts are predicting a return to warm, neutral palettes, embracing gray and beige as well as pale and subtle off-white hues. Here are a few of the shades that you’ll be sure to see making the rounds in 2021.