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[wolfette]

I was looking for some "crop top" style bras for weekends and travelling - no underwires, pull on, no fastenings, comfy, supportive - and found some offered on Amazon (marketplace) from Haines at a very reasonable price, especially considering they were being shipped from the US. Twin packs, two colours in each pack

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[acelightning]

In USian, "heather", unaccompanied by another color word, is usually taken to mean "heather grey" - the marled medium-light grey of standard institutional sports clothing. So describing a package of two bras as "white/heather" would mean that one is plain white and one is heather grey. If the base color is other than grey, it's mentioned as "heather blue" or whatever. (This is, of course, because nobody in the US has the faintest idea of what heather actually looks like.)

[wolfette]

but where would anyone get the idea that heather is grey??

it just does not compute at all. Ask any Brit - even an English person - what colour "heather" would suggest to them and you'll get various suggestions of pink, mauve or purple, but never grey!

[acelightning]

That's because people in the British Isles have actually seen heather, or at least seen pictures of it, and they know that the flowers of the plant are various shades of purplish-pink. Over here, "heather" is, as I said, the marled ("heathered") grey of standardized sports clothing - there's nothing to connect it to flowering plants. (I'm trying to think of an equivalent American color-name that could be misunderstood outside the US, but I can't come up with one off the top of my head.)