When spring began, I presented to you Pantone’s NY Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2019 Color Trend Report. You can read my post, “Introducing Spring 2019 Colors and How to Use Them” HERE. Pantone’s colors are for both seasons: spring and summer. Now that it’s the end of spring, the sun is coming out more often and the weather is warming up quite a bit. So I am looking at the spring colors now in a summery kind of way.
An easy way to create an outfit from whatever you have in your closet is to choose a color combination. So I have listed summer color combos below to inspire your outfit choices. Age doesn’t matter. Wear the colors you love and express your true self.
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Color Combos, Color Series, Health Goal Diary
Color Mixing, pantone, Summer
At Christmas time, what colors come to mind? Red and green, right? But there are other holiday colors as well. What if true red and true green are not colors that look best on you? Or maybe you have other shades of red or green that you love. Age doesn’t matter. What matters is what you love and what looks best on you. Think of the beautiful, artistically-decorated Christmas trees and lights…blue and white, silver and gold, etc. Maybe some other set of colors is more you. Let’s take a look at how to gain a new perspective on holiday outfit colors.
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Color Combos, Color Series, Holiday
“The whole point is to live life and be…to use all the colors in the crayon box.” – RuPaul
Have you ever played the color game at work? I never have, but a friend was telling me about it. Her name is Sharon. She was telling me about how someone where she worked would organize all interested office personnel to wear different color combinations each day for a week. Continue Reading
Color Combos, Color Series, Style Inspiration
From the beginning of autumn when it’s still sunny and warm ’til the end of the season when it may even snow, the feeling of fall is in the colors of the earth and the trees. So in the spirit of autumn leaves falling, if we surround ourselves in the changing colors that we see around us we feel in sync with nature. Age doesn’t matter. These colors are a gift to us from our Mother Earth.
Even if the weather is still hot, you can wear your lightweight, cool summer clothes in fall hues, such as: orange, red, rust, mustard yellow, navy, teal, purple, gray and burgundy. The neutral fall colors are the earth tones, such as: chocolate brown, olive green, sage green and camel. These are the colors — from brights to neutrals — to wear all season long.
Navy can take the place of black in your fall outfits. Pantone Color Institute’s executive director Leatrice Eiseman said, “When you move into the classic colors, we know that classics don’t change all that much. Yet we will see or expect a preponderance of certain colors. Sargasso Sea is that staple fall color. Navy is like the new black so to speak. It doesn’t replace black, of course. As navy blues have gained in recent seasons, this is an acknowledgement that this is the mooring of our entire palette.” (For more about Pantone’s A/W 2018 color palettes, read my post “How to Update Your Look with Color in the Fall.”)
What follows is: 1) The meanings of colors; 2) Autumn color combinations; and 3) Outfit ideas using fall colors.
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Color Combos, Color Series, Outfit Combinations
Autumn/Winter Colors, Color, Color Combinations
Today I have a color tip for you. Let’s have fun and mix and match all of your clothes to come up with new outfit combinations. You’ll get more outfits out of what you have so you won’t have to spend as much money, and you won’t get bored with your clothes. Age doesn’t matter; use what you already have!
Here is the tip:
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Color Combos, Color Series, Style Inspiration, Style Tips, Tips and Tricks
