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Posted: **12 Jan 2007, 13:36**

From an interview somewhere late 80s on Belgian (Flemish) radio2. If you've heard the interview and already know the answers - pls zip it shut for now.

Interviewer says something about the black outfits the Sisters always wear.

: " hey, I've got a green shirt on... I've got a green shirt on, viewers! I walk from left to right and I have a green shirt on !"
[thinks]
"Hmmmm.... we tend to mostly black because...."

...and then

states 4 notorious reasons.

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Posted: **12 Jan 2007, 13:42**

You can keep them on for days and no one will notice ?
You don't have to worry about matching colours ?
Journalists will get all excited about it ?
Even colour blind people know what colour your clothes are ?

Posted: **12 Jan 2007, 13:50**

one direct hit, Badlander

2. you don't have the problem when you wake up of deciding what to wear when all your clothes are black

Posted: **12 Jan 2007, 13:55**

http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/gen/faqdim/faqdim.htm

Do you always wear black?

Not at all. Traditionally, we very often wear shirts of the most flamboyant colour and design. We certainly wear less black than all the other pop acts we can think of (and we can think of plenty). You shouldn't be that bothered anyway. What we wear is designed to be practical and/or entertain us, and we're far more interested in songs than fashion statements.

Apart from anything else, if we'd made fashion statements we'd probably have had the same short career as every other bunch of fashion victims. If anything, it would be sensible to deliberately avoid being fashionable anywhere, although we're not sure what that would look like, and we couldn't be bothered anyway. You have to remember that we live and work in different countries with very differing ideas of fashion, and we think global. White, for example, is a funereal colour in Japan and certain other Asian countries. Any attempt to make a fashion statement would be misinterpreted in nine tenths of the world. In nine tenths of Newcastle, it's a fashion felony to wear any kind of shirt at all, so I might as well settle for a skimpy little white number, or something in dayglo yellow. Nurse prefers Hawaiian.

A TV station or a magazine or a citizen with a particularly desperate agenda might insist on parsing statements that we're not actually making, exaggerating the importance of the occasional black sock, or reviewing clothes that we're not actually wearing; you don't have to make the same mistake.

If the songs are too difficult to concentrate on, or you're simply so sad that you have to draw substantive conclusions from what we wear, you should at least ignore those morons who need to discuss the kind of capes we wear. Because we've never worn any. The best thing would be to ignore us as well. Go find a band which is all about clothing. There are plenty of them.

oh, how they change their tune

Posted: **13 Jan 2007, 02:47**

1. no worries about what to wear
2. not as much laundry
3. slimming, flattering...

Posted: **13 Jan 2007, 09:45**

Same hit as Badlander, Bismarck.....

still three more to go .....

Both (You can keep them on for days and no one will notice; Not as much laundry) of these are close though!

Think own experience perhaps?

Posted: **13 Jan 2007, 13:26**

I've seen the interview and I still can't remember.

Posted: **13 Jan 2007, 13:31**

Goth?

Posted: **13 Jan 2007, 13:31**

Dark wrote:Goth?

Posted: **13 Jan 2007, 18:22**

"so my relection doesn't swirl around and talk to me"

Posted: **13 Jan 2007, 18:38**

1. Once you go black you never go back

2. You want us to

3. Suit well with my shades

4. Looks good on black and white pics

Posted: **13 Jan 2007, 19:32**

Ozpat wrote:1. Once you go black you never go back
2. You want us to
3. Suit well with my shades
4. Looks good on black and white pics

nah....

'come to think of it... ok, I'll consider these

- You can keep them on for days and no one will notice
- Not as much laundry

as close enough to

1. it doesn't show the dirt

leaves 3 and 4 still open

Posted: **13 Jan 2007, 19:58**

more-sedatives-pls wrote: 1. it doesn't show the dirt

Badlander wrote:You can keep them on for days and no one will notice ?

I think I was close enough...

So was...

bismarck wrote: 2. not as much laundry

Posted: **15 Jan 2007, 04:51**

You don't have to worry about matching colours ?
...
Even colour blind people know what colour your clothes are ?

Too bad none of that's true.

I think I'm the only non-colorblind person in my family.

And since there's no true black, there's brown-black and blue-black, which actually look kind of horrible when paired together in the dark.

But, to be fair, I thought I heard someone say that as one of the reasons The Sisters wore black all the time? Because it was easier to pair clothing at ungodly hours or somesuch?

I'd imagine you could also look more "invisible" on stage when you blend into the background because of all the black you're wearing!

- You can keep them on for days and no one will notice
- Not as much laundry

Those are exactly the reasons I wear black...

...And I also wear brightly colored shirts, but you can't really see that when I wear a jacket 24/7 from being cold.

Posted: **15 Jan 2007, 09:55**

Multifaceted wrote:
You don't have to worry about matching colours ?
...
But, to be fair, I thought I heard someone say that as one of the reasons The Sisters wore black all the time? Because it was easier to pair clothing at ungodly hours or somesuch?
yes.... the colour matching, or clothes pairing definitely comes close as reason nr 3, but you're not quite there yet. What is it exactly that needs matching?

(a HINT the size of Nebraska I'd say)

Posted: **16 Jan 2007, 13:04**

"We tend the mostly wear black so we match with the fans/match with eachother?!"

Posted: **16 Jan 2007, 13:14**

Socks?

Posted: **16 Jan 2007, 14:02**

markfiend wrote:Socks?

yessir, reason nr 3 is the sock-matching issue

Last reason remaining!

Summary:
Interviewer says something about the black outfits the Sisters always wear.

Andrew: " hey, I've got a green shirt on... I've got a green shirt on, viewers. I walk from left to right and I have a green shirt on !"
[thinks]
"Hmmmm.... we tend to mostly black because it doesn't show the dirt. (1)

Interviewer: [chuckles] Is that the real reason?

Andrew: It's a very good reason!
[thinks]
You don't have the problem when you wake up of deciding what to wear when all your clothes are black.... (2)
...it's not hard to find socks that match... (3)
and you can

(4)

Posted: **16 Jan 2007, 18:25**

Wrong, Andrew. I have mostly black socks, and it's a nightmare to try and work out which sock pairs with which.

Posted: **16 Jan 2007, 18:33**

more-sedatives-pls wrote: and you can

..blend in with the black,velvet wall coverings at our favourite goth hang-out "The Crypt"

Maybe...

Posted: **17 Jan 2007, 10:25**

Dark wrote:Wrong, Andrew. I have mostly black socks, and it's a nightmare to try and work out which sock pairs with which.

Does it matter? As long as I'm wearing two roughly the same thickness I don't really care if they're a pair. (And yes, they're all black

)

Posted: **19 Jan 2007, 10:53**

well... seems like given this information

cfr
http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic. ... highlight=

Andy's fourth reason for wearing black was a blatant lie!

Unless they have 'em in black of course...

4. ...and you can wear your underwear for months!

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