a blue-white shirt

[Vargunge]

Hi!

Red-orange means of orange tinged with red. I guess it's possible to define some colours or shades as yellow-brown, blue-green, or green-yellow.
But can an object be red-blue or red-green? For example, can a blue and white striped shirt be a blue-white shirt?

 

[Qaz_]

That would be a blue and white shirt. Even more clearly it would be a blue and white striped shirt.

 

[panjandrum]

There are other threads about how we combine words to describe colours.
For example, rather than red-orange I would talk about reddy orange. Similarly, yellowy brown, bluey gree, or greeny yellow.
I might use the suffix -ish rather than -y.
A blue and white striped shirt could be a blue and white shirt.
A blue-white shirt suggests a shirt of one colour, that colour being a bluey white, or bluish white.

 

[ewie]

Here's a previous thread on 'compound colours'.
Like Panjo, I would interpret a blue-white shirt as one that was basically white, but a white that was faintly tinged with blue.

 

[Vargunge]

Thanks for your help!
UPD: and for the link