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Dunkelfonds

English translation: dark backgrounds

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German term or phrase:Dunkelfonds
English translation:dark backgrounds
Entered by: Marcus Malabad

23:56 May 13, 2006
German to English translations [PRO]
Textiles / Clothing / Fashion / Textile colours
German term or phrase: Dunkelfonds
Wieder geht es um Herrenmode:

Farben: - Neue blau – grün – aqua – Töne in Kombination mir violett bis dark purple
- Dunkelfonds
- Changeants
- Krawattenfähige Klassiker, ganz wichtig klassische Farben wie weiß und Blaufarbigkeiten

Fond ist anscheinend bei Textilien eine Art Naßverfahren (blotch), aber ich weiß es nicht, ob das damit gemeint ist.
Sarah Downing
Local time: 23:40
dark backgrounds???
Explanation:
The first thing I thought of when I read this, particularly when the next item was "Changeants" was a shirt I bought in Melbourne, the main colour of which shimmmered, so to speak, against a dark background. It looked nice, but unfotunately was made out of some kind of revolting synthetic material that made me feel sweaty in about two minutes and stink to high heaven after an hour or so.

I think it was described as "shot" (I mean the colour effect), although that hardly seems appropriate....

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Note added at 29 mins (2006-05-14 00:25:59 GMT)
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"Changeant" is in Duden: "1. Gewebe in [Taftbindung] mit verschiedenfarbigen Kett- und Schlussfäden, das bei Lichteinfall in verschiedenen Farben schillert".

I'm kinda guessing that a "Dunkelfond" is the same thing, but with a dark colour as one of the two.

BTW Duden doesn't have this sense of "Fond", nor Wahrig, but Pons-Collins does: "[Untergrund bei Stoffen] base, background".

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Note added at 31 mins (2006-05-14 00:27:21 GMT)
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PS I don't wear that shirt any more: it cost me a fortune and I wore it once!

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Note added at 37 mins (2006-05-14 00:33:50 GMT)
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PPS I just went and found it. It's 100% polynosic (a material I had previously never heard of). So anyone out there who is prone to sweating, don't buy a polynosic shirt! (BTW: there is a plausible case for the etymology of "polynosic" being that it comes from the Greek for "very sick".)
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Richard Benham
France
Local time: 05:40
Grading comment
Thank you very much, Richard!
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2 +3dark backgrounds???
Richard Benham


  

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dark backgrounds???


Explanation:
The first thing I thought of when I read this, particularly when the next item was "Changeants" was a shirt I bought in Melbourne, the main colour of which shimmmered, so to speak, against a dark background. It looked nice, but unfotunately was made out of some kind of revolting synthetic material that made me feel sweaty in about two minutes and stink to high heaven after an hour or so.

I think it was described as "shot" (I mean the colour effect), although that hardly seems appropriate....

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Note added at 29 mins (2006-05-14 00:25:59 GMT)
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"Changeant" is in Duden: "1. Gewebe in [Taftbindung] mit verschiedenfarbigen Kett- und Schlussfäden, das bei Lichteinfall in verschiedenen Farben schillert".

I'm kinda guessing that a "Dunkelfond" is the same thing, but with a dark colour as one of the two.

BTW Duden doesn't have this sense of "Fond", nor Wahrig, but Pons-Collins does: "[Untergrund bei Stoffen] base, background".

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Note added at 31 mins (2006-05-14 00:27:21 GMT)
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PS I don't wear that shirt any more: it cost me a fortune and I wore it once!

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Note added at 37 mins (2006-05-14 00:33:50 GMT)
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PPS I just went and found it. It's 100% polynosic (a material I had previously never heard of). So anyone out there who is prone to sweating, don't buy a polynosic shirt! (BTW: there is a plausible case for the etymology of "polynosic" being that it comes from the Greek for "very sick".)

Richard Benham
France
Local time: 05:40
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 15
Grading comment
Thank you very much, Richard!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks Richard. Background is very possible, seeing as fonds comes from the French. Changeant made me think of changierend so I translated it as irridescent. This text is a nightmare to say the least, but now I can truly say that I am an expert in men's shirts and suits - in fact, I now know more about them than I ever wanted to! That shirt sounds a bit antisocial;-)


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Johanna Timm, PhD: Ground Color :The background color against which the top colors create the pattern or figure in the design.http://4.43.98.99/index.cfm?fuseaction=termsGlossary#gee
59 mins
  -> Thanks.
agree  ciliegina: see Hohenadel/Relton Textile dictionary
9 hrs
  -> Thanks for the ref, but I don't have it. It's not really my field: I have insufficient "background" in textiles to do anything material with them....
agree  Christine Lam
15 hrs
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