Community Chat

[ROMARY]

Years ago, I bought a wool double breasted charcoal grey coat with matching tie belt, which I loved and wore it down to bare fabric.  Anyway, a certain fam. member wasn't crazy about charcoal grey on me.  I, on the other hand, was crazy about that coat!  It was a classic coat, meant to look good for years and years.  It was a work-horse, that's for sure!

[wildflowerblue]

Summers could wear khaki with good pink tones to it.

I can honestly say, that when I was first introduced to this in those Color Me Beautiful years, the only thing I knew for sure was I loved blue.  Wanted to wear red, not realizing I was always looking at a spring red instead of a summer red, etc.  Knowing I was a summer meant the world to me then....then I understood the love of blue (summers look good in all blues).  I simply love all "my colors"   

I am married to a winter.  Have you ever noticed that rarely do you see a married couple of contrasting seasons - a winter married to a spring or autumn, for instance.

[Oznell]

Respectfully, Chessylady, I don't see it as a feminist or women vs. men issue.  Here's David Zyla doing a quick color consultation with a 'regular guy':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJEl4J78RQ

He quickly sizes him up as needing "cool" colors, and needing "high contrast" in his clothes.  The aspect of "contrast" in coloring-- the amount of contrast among an individual's eyes, skin and hair-- is crucial and hasn't been explored much in this thread.

And one of Zyla's main points is, if you mirror your own coloring in your clothes, you cannot go wrong.  He himself often wears tangerine and teal, repeating his own personal coloring.

In his system, he is a "HIgh Autumn",  with the archetype  "The Passionate Impresario"!

[Oznell]

TxAngie, what an interesting point!  My parents were both cool seasons.  My husband and I do break that mold a bit, since he is an Autumn and I'm a Summer.

I like shopping for him, b/c it allows me to choose colors that often look terrible on me, but immediately light up his face and give him a glow!

Now that you've mentioned it, I'm going to start noticing the "seasons" of married couples...

[LTT1]

@Oznell@wildflowerblue@ROMARY@chessylady@clangle

My husband and I are cool tones. He can wear stronger contrasts.

Here are some of mine and you can say what you think:

I do believe that a "premise" of all of this color theory is that nature gives a person their colors and you can't go wrong with these.

[LTT1]

My biggest fashion mistakes? Copper-peach sequined evening outfit/mustard gold short jacket (for business)/ dark teal evening dress. In all cases when we were first married and I asked DH for an opinion, he mentioned that I might want to toss these items!

[LTT1]

@Oznell

I like your idea and will watch the video!

Many women will go suit-shopping with their husbands (along to give a 2nd opinion)

I noticed men's suits had the nicest mix of color woven into the wool. The overall tones I chose for DH were of the bluer-gray tones or black. The salesmen in higher end shops often were good at judging skin tones and choosing the right ties and shirt combos!

[Oznell]

lovestoteach, blues seem to be good for both you and for me.  I used to love a certain shade of steel blue on me, but it's funny, if it gets just a tinge too "muddy", it doesn't work..

How are you in baby blue?  I used to think, oh, that's too juvenile a color for me.  Then I noticed I get more compliments on it than any other of my "good" colors, including lilac and periwinkle and mint, which are among my best..

That lilac gray that you wear successfully would be a little too dark on me.  I've discovered to my sorrow, that the only gray I can wear flatteringly, is a light dove gray.  Despite what the different systems seem to say...

I love you putting up your charts and graphics.  There's another great style and color blogger, Australian Imogen Something at the Inside Out Style site, who does fabulous things on "levels of contrast", usiing real people to illustrate, and she's also a proponent of mirroring your own personal hair eyes and skin color scheme in your clothes.

Maybe later I'll dig up some of her stuff to post.  It's really fun stuff...

[Yardlie]

I did this on a Saturday morning  many, many years ago. I'm came up as a spring. They didn't really specify if it was light, clear, or warm back then. I gravitate toward the light spring colors shown in the chart above. I have red hair...not really strawberry blonde, but more ginger. Of course, these days, I get a little help covering the gray from my beautician!