Do's and Don'ts in Fashion

[HistWardrobe]

Do's and Don'ts

Here's a couple:
1. Sandals worn with socks.
2. Sandals worn with regular as opposed to sandalfoot stockings -- where the heel and toe reinforcements are really obvious. Looks VERY odd.

 

[Lady Day]

I remember this fad

Two pieces of denim can look good together. It's all about choosing the correct contrasting wash/weave of the two pieces.

It use to be only wear two matching pieces, then when most people couldnt FIND two matching pieces, the accepted trend became wear two contrasting pieces. I was like, wait, didnt yall just say NOT to do that? So that is why I think two pieces at all is a bad idea.

LD

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Here's a couple:
1. Sandals worn with socks.

Ah, but Katherine Hepburn wore sandals with socks (and slacks) and she looked great in them. [huh] (There are always exceptions to such rules.)

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[Lady Day]

Wonderful color, and the laws that govern it.

http://usa.gretagmacbethstore.com/i...Munsell HVC Color Charts (10 per package).htm

This is the color theory chart I learned from.

Different eras had different colors. DUH you day to me, but most people now a days dont really label colors correctly. Like the sweater from a previous post above. Many thought it was a purple sweater, well blue is kind of a ba***rd color. Its a product of blue violet, and blue green. If going by the RGB and CMYK color formats, blue is cyan which leans toward a greenish/cool tinge by what people would catogorize today.

The same is for complimentary colors. All complimentay colors look good together, hence their names. They are directly across the color wheel from one another and by design look fantastic. The trick with matching it to fashion, not paring two colors together that are the same value. A bright blue and orange are going to compete instead of compliment. If the orange is lighter than the blue (blue, or cyan is a traditional darker chroma than orange) then the outcome will be fabulous. Otherwise you get scintillation, where two colors that are the same value look like they are vibrating.

Value is a completly different beast. Value is the absence of color (black) or the inclusion ofall color (white). Any color with a value in it is a value. Pink is a value, for example. Values at the complete end of the spectrum can work with just about anything, but one needs to be cautiouswhen paring them with other values (like brown or any hued value of grey, like a blue grey or a green grey).

Sorry for the diatribe, but I LOVE color theory. Its so fasinating to me.



LD

 

[Marc Chevalier]

DUH you day to me ...

I always day to Lady Day

 

[BellyTank]

Re: this image-

This is actually a black and white photograph, which has been tinted, or most likely digitally colourised in a vintage style, not an original colour image, so, of course, the original colours of the garments could have been just about anything one could imagine-

Just for the sake of argument, I would call the (colourised)sweater 'lilac',
verging on 'lavender' (not blue)and the jacket, 'spring green'



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[Viola]

In the photo above I think the GIRL is inarguably beautiful, but am less sure of the outfit. In fact, I don't think I like it. But that sweater is kind of light-purple looking to me, not blue at all.

Purple's a color I wish looked better on me than it does. Pink people and purple don't get along, I guess.

 

[jitterbugdoll]

Tinted or not, it's *still* a color combination that was used. The same goes for illustrations in magazines and on patterns--just because it's not an original color photograph doesn't mean that people didn't pair the two colors together. Those illustrations were actually suggestions for the less fashion-inclined.

Anyway, here's a dress I just won--it's navy, with a yellow and green floral print.

Also, don't forget that women wore fully fashioned (so reinforced toe, foot, and heel) stockings with open-toe, slingback shoes. It's taboo to wear stockings at *all* with open-toe shoes these days, but women wore them together all the time in prior eras.

 

[Viola]

I know I was the one who brought up the green-blue rule in the first place, so let me also be the first to say I LOVE that dress!

But then, yellow's always been my favorite color.

I WANT THAT DRESS.lol

 

[mysterygal]

In the photo above I think the GIRL is inarguably beautiful, but am less sure of the outfit. In fact, I don't think I like it. But that sweater is kind of light-purple looking to me, not blue at all.

Purple's a color I wish looked better on me than it does. Pink people and purple don't get along, I guess.

It is also true for 'yellow' based skin people as well. Purple seems to wash my face out as does anything blue. Purple I can easily do without..but blue, I would love it if it looked better on me!

 

[Etienne]

Does anyone know if they still have that service where people come in and "do' your colors for you? It was popular many moons ago, and it certainly was informative and very practical. It was a "seasonal system" where you were a spring, summer, fall or winter. You left the session with a packet of small samples of color swatches that were rated +5 down to +1 (as I recall), all of which were great colors for your own particular coloring. Anyone remember it? (I believe our good lady doctor does!)

 

[LaMedicine]

Do you mean the "Color Me Beautiful" system? I believe it's been improved on some as there are in-between people, and the seasons are subdivided into 3 groups as well now so there are a total of 12 types.
The books can be had at Amazon.com, but I don't know directly of anyone giving the lessons, but I imagine there are people who work with this. Maybe an internet search will help?
I had mine done about 10 years ago, and sent my daughters off to the lady who did mine, when they fiinished high school. Figured it best to have an idea how to dress well and tastefully.
Yes, it's a lot of help when trying to decide your wardrobe. Keeps you from making dire mistakes, with makeup as well with clothes. It teaches you that there is no particular color that is taboo for the person, the differences in hues and shades are what matters, so this system trains you to have a discerning eye for the intricate color differences. For instance, there's a right "pink" for everyone. Only thing is that that pink may be baby pink for one preson, fuscha for another, coral for someone else, etc, etc.
Here are the links to the two books.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345345886/sr=1-1/qid=1150627955/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568330375/sr=1-2/qid=1150628220/

 

[Naama]

Personally, I never wear two pieces of denim at the same tine (IE jean jacket and jeans) yuck.

But I have to say I totaly agree with you on that, I also think that two different shades of denim look even worse then the same!

Naama

 

[Lady Day]

Fine ...

I always day to Lady Day

Exploit my typo.



LD

 

[LolitaHaze]

I have this wonderful deep purple hat that I am yearning to wear, but I don't know what to wear with it. I know I don't like it paired up with a black dress or black suit, so my question is, if I find a nice green dress that goes nicely with the purple hat... what color shoes can I wear with it? Would black shoes be ok? Should I balance off the hat with a matching belt or gloves...? [huh] Thank you.

Signed, Clueless in Phoenix

 

[jitterbugdoll]

It would be wonderful if you could find purple or green shoes (a tall order, I know,) but black or dark brown would work fine. I'd certainly try to tie in the purple hat with other accessories as well--belt, gloves, purse, and jewelry.

Here is an illustration showing matching accessories that contrast the dress color:

You might also look for a dress in a purple print, and wear shoes in one of the other colors in the print.

Here's an example of that:

The purple might also look nice with a grey dress:

 

[jitterbugdoll]

I thought this was fun--the lady on the left is wearing a floral print dress with solid accessories--but check out the striped trim on her hat:

 

[maisie]

Hi
I can't seem to see your pictures Jitterbugdoll!

Anyway a purple hat sounds fab, espicially if you could get a dress with green and purple in it! I have a dress that is kelly green with a few purple flowers on it and the colours go great together!
And about getting shoes if you haven't got big feet getting green or purple shoes should be ok, not easy though, but i'm a size nine and have both green and purple shoes (for reasonable prices aswell! ) so they are out there!!

 

[mysterygal]

the purple and brown hats look fun, but, I'm going to have to get a little more braver before wearing those myself! right now, I'm sticking to black and brown colors. The hats make those dresses go from a regular house dress, to 'wow'.

 

[jitterbugdoll]

I fixed them

I have green and purple shoes as well, though it took me ages to find them in my size! I paid a moderate amount for them; they weren't cheap but they weren't too expensive either.

I have a 1940s grey dress with a print of violet, white, blue, and green hydrangeas on it; I like to wear it with a purple belt and shoes.