A woman is expected to know 27 shades of white, and be able to distinguish the differences between red, scarlet, crimson, vermilion, blush, ruby, carmine, cherry, etc., etc., without a reference sample...
I'm pretty sure I can identify red, blue, green, yellow, brown, black, and white without too much help.
“Complicated” colors (like “orange”) get complicated names (like “reddish-yellow” or “yellowish-red” or something like that).
Did you ever see “Mr Blandings builds his Dream House” with Myrna Loy and Cary Grant?
The scene I’m thinking of is when Myrna Loy picks the house paint colors.