 It can't be just me, surely, that thinks the the limited colour range of these new tops exceeds even Paramo's usual awfulness. For women, you can only have Insipid pale grey (I have yet to see any complexion flattered by pale grey) with Fruit-bat Vomit, sorry, some strange warm orange. Or the same colours reversed. Men fare even more badly with Elephant Blue (elephants are GREY, FFS) coupled with Baby's First Attempt. If you have ever seen the contents of the nappy of a new-born bab who has been breast-fed, you'll know what I'm talking about. And neither of the two colours sits well with the other one. Do they employ colour-blind designers?? All IMO, but tell me it's not just me....
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 I think you got that blokes' combination wrong, NPC - it's clearly Elephant Blue and Moose Turd  Still, at least they got it right with the women's Velez Adventure Light 
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 Yuk colours,great design,great fabric and next year Go Outdoors will have them for sale at a knock down prices.So unless the colour palette changes I'll wait untill next year!
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 Paramo are just making damn sure that their products don't appeal to the chav market, "Oy Mister, Got any o that wicked Paramo gear 2go wiv me TNF beanie?"
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 NPC, I think you're being a bit too complimentary about them, to be honest,,, I'm glad my Parameta reversibles are just a nice plain blue. Pity they can't extend that sort of idea (one single inoffensive colour) to more of the range. Still, it isn't chocolate brown with bright sky blue trim which is true of a particularly nasty Bergans top I saw recently. Having said that, it was on a person who'd presumably parted with money for it rather than in an ad, on a store dummy or hanger, so I guess these things do appeal to someone. Just not any of us... Pete.
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 the picture doesn't do the "yellow" any justice at all. it's far more nauseous than mere pixels can represent. we know how much certain colours appeal when they are half price in six months time.
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Even at half-price, I won't be wearing that colour combo. I'd get picked up by every passing ambulance, it would make my complexion look so pasty. Yuk yuk yuk
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 I saw the men's at The Outdoor Show and the colour is just blerrrrgh. Would you think that they would sell more with some normal colours. Me, I like common or garden orange
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I saw the men's at The Outdoor Show and the colour is just blerrrrgh. Would you think that they would sell more with some normal colours.
YES! and..YES! But they obviously can't see that.
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 I saw the men's at The Outdoor Show and the colour is just blerrrrgh. Would you think that they would sell more with some normal colours.
Wot's wrong with lime green and maroon, then? You just need to understand marketing............
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 The colours of the new Paramo short sleeve cambia zip neck tops are awful, particularly the patch of "contrasting" colour at the bottom of the neck zip. I am yet to have a customer in my shop who actually likes these colours. This morning I changed the window display and decided against putting one on a dummy - didnt want to scare the customers away.....................
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PARAMO FOLK! Are you reading? I know they check this forum.... ...please, please undertake market research about possible colourways with ordinary hillwalkers before releasing new products. You bowed to pressure from many of us for the female Velez AL and made it in plain black - and at least three of the contributors to that thread have bought one the first week it was released in April 2009. You have developed and designed these new tops and then made them in horrible colours. Your fabrics are fantastic. The colours? Bloody awful.
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a marketing idea. release a "special edition" in a normal, i.e. real world normal and not paramo normal, colour to see how well it sells. as ninja says, fantastic fabrics, totally crap colours which pictures can't convey the actual awfulness of them. they haven't fixed the velcro positioning problem on their shirts or "technical" darts in the trouser legs yet either as changing one measurement number doesn't seem to be on. strange the velcro on the sleeves of the new bezipped windjacket are in the right place. one saving grace, due to the colours (and design/paying attention errors), is it saves me money whenever i visit the london shop. unfortunately the proximity of the rohan shop opposite has attracted the bulk of my cash lately.
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I have no doubt that a Limited Edition range in beige could do very well....
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 Magnolia anyone?
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Buttermilk? <voms stage left>
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Taupe, AKA (in some circles) cat shit brown.
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 I'm sure they employ colour consultants, JJ, to tell them what's the new hip and happening colour palette for next season. Baby's First Attempt is the new Black, dontcha know...
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Yeah, I know they DO pay 'colour/trend prediction people' cos they told me so. But could they not find ones that are not on acid? All the other brands manage not to piss us all off so much.
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> Yeah, I know they DO pay 'colour/trend prediction people' cos they told me so. They DO? I was joking. Dear God. I wonder if the consultants are secretly in the pay of WL Gore & Associates... <FAO any lawyers: that was a joke, okay; a funny>
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