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It's not for making the colors nicer to look at for you but to avoid you putting on clothes which doesn't match in colors and look really off-putting to the non-color-blind (e.g. red pants, pink T-shirt).

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It can be more than that. Think safety. When I drive in Quebec the road signs are a slightly different hue than used in Ontario. I had a hard time figuring out which signs were informational - construction after 19h, and the "lane ends 200m" need different reactions.

As far as clothes, I have a "garanimals" system with numbers to match up shirts and pants and optionally ties. Hopefully my wife is merciful and matching my clothes tastefully.

and when she's pissed at you, you look like a clown at work? :D

I am not colorblind, but I did read a review in interest. These are not recommended for driving because they apparently make dim and night more difficult, and things like tunnels can be a problem.

In this regard, and for the purposes of signage, etc. it would be helpful. I'm dealing with blue-green colorblindness right now due to a pretty bad (3+ NS) cataract in my only eye, and while I don't have problems looking at colors on, say, a computer monitor, I often stand in my closet asking myself "Is this shirt blue, or is it green?"

My solution has been to own a lot of grey shirts.

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