Are both sentences correct?

Both are grammatically correct but the first one is redundant. I would not recommend using it.

tamguatlayHer dress is red in colour.Her dress is red.Are both sentences correct? Thanks.

They are equally good English. The choice is stylistic. "Red in colour" might be appropriate if, for example, the next sentence was, "Her hat is poor in taste."

By the way, I didn't mean to make it sound like they are equally frequent. Ozzourti was right as far as which one to use every day.

I might say that something is a red color, but I can hardly imagine myself saying that something is red in color.

I think

There are times when "in" is appropriate without special context. A muted trumpet is harsh in tone. A silk robe is smooth in texture. Arab art is meticulous in detail. Research might be sweeping in scope.

tamguatlayHer dress is red in colour.Her dress is red.Are both sentences correct? Thanks.

enoon:
They are equally good English. The choice is stylistic. "Red in colour" might be appropriate if, for example, the n

tamguatlayenoon :They are equally good English. The choice is stylistic. "Red in colour" might be appropriate if, for example, the next sentence was, "Her hat is poor in taste."ozzourti :I might say that something is a red color, but I can hardly imagine myself saying that something is red in color. tamguatlay: I'm confused by the above replies.

enoon and

fivejedjon I could find only one COCA citation for 'red in colour'

I feel like I've slipped into the twilight zone. "X in color" is plain English. You'd have to try every color in COCA to get an accurate count, by the way:

Blue, 7
Green, 26
Pink, 11
Yellow, 9
etc.

There is a good example under "pink" in the COCA: "The three wo

enoonI feel like I've slipped into the twilight zone.

A little extreme, perhaps. Nobody has said that the words were incorrect.

ozzourti suggested that we might need a special context, and that s/he would not recommend that learners use such an expression.

I said that COCA suggested that this way of expressing things was not common. I

enoonThere is a good example under "pink" in the COCA: "The three women lived in a small, slumped cottage, pink in color, and about twenty meters from the house there was a brook." You can't have, "The three women lived in a small, slumped cottage, pink, and about twenty meters from the house there was a brook."

But you can have: "The three women lived in a sm