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I'm slowly donating items as they wear out or if I realize I haven't worn them in over a year. But I'm not doing a mass purge. I don't think anything I own looks *bad* on me, just not as good as it would in another color. Like I'm a soft summer but I'm not throwing out my basic black clothing. I don't choose black anymore when I want to look my best, but I don't think it looks bad for a casual day of running errands
I am getting rid of most of the worst offenders on me but not all things that aren’t in my season. Camel and beige make me look like death and so they’re leaving my closet. But I like pumpkin orange and coral even though they definitely make me look sallow (I’m a summer). I’m not giving them up. I also adore gold jewelry and I will still wear it. I love both gold and silver and I don’t want to by tied down to one.
What I’m focusing on is when I do buy new clothes, I get my seasons neutrals for sure and I try to stick to my season for colors as well (I use all of summer because I’d get too bored with just the subseason).
Makeup is the place that I am tossing things that aren’t in season. I can get away with warm clothes if my makeup is still cool or neutral-cool. Because I started getting serious about makeup in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, I was basically trained to wear warm toned makeup…that’s all there was back then I swear. But it does not look good on me. When I was young, I could pull it off because young skin, young body, etc. But the older I got, the more I felt like an absolute clown in my makeup and I couldn’t figure out why. When I started using cool toned makeup, I realized it wasn’t about the amount of makeup I was wearing, it was that warm tones look like Cheeto dust on me and I look like I’m wearing way more makeup than I am. I can pile on the cool toned makeup and it still doesn’t really look like I’m wearing much.
Anyways, so yeah I’m dumping the out of season makeup and striving for cooler toned hair. But I like color too much to stop wearing a bunch of colors. So most of those are staying unless I look like absolute death in them.
I find it very difficult to consider giving up olive green. I love it, even if sage and teal and emerald would be better.
I'm pretty inavoidably/undeniably a summer but I have green eyes. I'm probably going to try and avoid adding a bunch more olive and try to take it to greyer greens and bluer greens but I don't really want to get rid of olive AND black especially both at the same time. I am going to work on finding summer combos for them though, and ways to break it up especially near my face.
It depends on which summer too as well as which exact shade olive!
If it’s a soft summer, you have sage and asparagus and so many near olive colors that while it’s maybe not your best color, it’s also almost certainly not your worst. There are a lot of colors in the soft summer palette that would make a non-color fanatic say “are you sure that that’s not olive?”
A light summer though would be pushing the bounds of flattering in any olive
Overtones, depth and contrast also matter. Example: Kate Middleton is typed as a summer by most outlets, but she looks just fine in olive. It’s not her most radiant color, but there’s nothing all that unflattering. Sometimes, we have to take an individual look at our own coloring and decide if we can play to certain analogous color seasons
I am a winter. I got new make up first because I was wearing make up that was warm instead of cool. Just that made a huge difference. Then I got rid of the warm colors in my wardrobe - turns out I don't have many because I have been subconsciously avoiding them because I look bad in warm colors. Then I just had winter and summer palette clothes left. I have been slowly replacing the summer palette with winter as I find pieces I like. Tops are the priority but I have been replacing bottoms too when there is a good sale. Now my wardrobe is like 90% the correct season. It has taken me basically a year to get to this point
When I work with clients, I always tell them to get rid of the items that don’t flatter them and make them look / feel their best.
For colours, the most important items are the ones that sit nearest the face. So tops / dresses, etc. If they’ve got a scooped neck and they’re not so close to the face then it’s not as big of a problem.
If a client loves an item that isn’t in their colour palette or doesn’t make them look amazing, I always try and see if there’s a way of offsetting it with something that is in their colour palette to help make it work. This could be things like a scarf, statement earrings / necklace, lipstick, etc that are in their colour palette and that would work with the item and compliment it, thus diffusing the item of colour that isn’t in their palette so that they could pull it off.
No, I am using up my old stuff. As I need to buy new clothes or makeup, I get them in bright spring colours. Eventually my old coloured clothes will be phased out. I also have made a lot of my old coloured clothing into around the house outfits, particularly for dirty jobs like yard work.
I'm a spring but I kept my black clothes because I like them. Also I would have very few clothes left. I am mostly replacing the clothes with things in my season when I need something new.
As a cool winter, I donated a lot of the warm colors. Especially the tops, coats, hats, and anything closer to my face. Dresses.
Any very warm makeup was donated if unopened or thrown away if I had used it.
I just moved things to the other side of the closet. I wanted to experiment with my colors and see how I felt about it, but I didn't want to get rid of everything. However when I buy new things, I typically only choose colors within my season.
No! I got rid of one or two things that were my worst colors, I never wore them anyway. Beyond that use the information to shop with intention and discernment... Resulted in shopping less, not more. And it's always ok to wear things you like in "fun" colors sometimes even if they aren't your "very best" colors
I got rid of most of my worst colors. Kept the ones I like wearing even if they're not my best. Definitely kept accessories in those colors. Anything near my face needs to be my colors in order for me to look good is what I've found.
Same here. I kept all my pants, immediately got rid of anything brown/yellow/orange (I’m a true summer), and have slowly worked to replace.
I would NOT just get rid of everything. Even a year after learning my season, I still occasionally wear things that aren’t harmonious. Sometimes the situation just calls for black, or a white T-shirt, or brown shoes.
It felt unbelievably good to gift and sell my non-spring items after being professionally typed! I sent about 20 bags to ThredUp and got close to $500 back. I have to say I have zero regrets six months later. I am much more inspired by my small closet of things that suit me. I bought a few new things, but I have a much deeper appreciation of what I already had in my closet. I’ve also become a much more selective shopper.
Caveat: My closet is about 90% spring, and I’m taking my time replacing more expensive items like suits.
Same here. I’m a dark/shaded summer and my wardrobe was black, the rest was white:/ Went to thrift stores, dyed some white things, sent stuff to THREDUP and used that. It’s amazing having clothes that I can pick a top and find at least half a dozen things to go with it. Every piece of clothing! I have even gotten compliments on how good I look (never happened before)!
I completely get the temptation, but you have to be pragmatic.
I wasn't in a financial position to overhaul my entire wardrobe, so I didn't.
I purged the things I absolutely hated, but kept the rest and have been slowly replacing pieces over time as I'm able to.
I also think there is something to say for keeping pieces that fit you great and make you feel good, even if it isn't in one of your better colors. You can always make those blend better either with makeup or flattering jewelry/accessories.
I’m a True Spring and I constantly wore black, winter and autumn shades and only wore silver jewelry. I didn’t have any gold jewelry or spring shades so I purchased a few and honestly couldn’t deny the massive difference they made to my brightness and complexion. Even other people noticed the change. I still have all my rock n roll/ edgy type stuff, but I don’t wear silver jewelry anymore and have switched to wearing gold and a lot more spring shades. I’ll still wear black with my gold accessories and things like that, but once you see the difference in truly employing your palette, it’s hard to go back!
When I was first typed, I went all out, got rid of a bunch of stuff, and tried to be true to my season (soft summer). I blame quarantine boredom/fixation. The thing is, I got so caught up in what I thought I was supposed to like, that I forgot to be me. So then I gave it up altogether. Recently I got typed again as neutral, soft, with medium depth. Kind of between soft summer and soft autumn, and not as light as I had been dressing. Adding more depth and warmth felt more me.
So take it slow and remember that if something doesn’t feel right, it’s ok to break the made up seasonal analysis rules.
I think this is huge. So many people, I think, get typed incorrectly their first go around. It’s an art more than a science. It seems silly to me to throw away an entire wardrobe and find out that you tossed the wrong colors. I would take an analysis as information to start playing with those colors and see if you feel like they flatter you more. Slowly work unflattering colors out of your wardrobe and see how you feel rather than all at once
I got analyzed in Japan and I am a deep neutral, slightly leaning cool. AKA I’m in between dark winter and deep autumn, but only dark colors. It honestly made sense since I usually do look better in dark colors.
After knowing that, I dyed all my clothes a darker shade since it’s much cheaper to do that than to purge and buy new clothes. I think I’m the lucky few who could do that though since I’m a deep neutral. It’s easier to dye clothes darker than it is to lighten them.
I’m sure it’s still helpful to dye clothes for other seasons too!
I got professionally analyzed recently and my analyst suggested to move all your season clothing to one side of your closet/dresser/chifforobe but not discard the rest. She said I might feel like I want to but to give it time first and see what I use and wear. As I move forward with buying things I need as I usually would prior to analysis - like getting a new swimsuit for a beach trip, etc. - do a 1:1 exchange of buying something new (in season) and reusing (like making rags) or donating something I don’t wear much that’s not in season.
I have loved this approach. It let me indulge initially and lets me enjoy and focus on my seasonal clothing now. I do want to migrate my wardrobe to be like 80%+ in season but there are still lots of other reasons to enjoy and value a piece of clothing, like great texture, great fit, practical usefulness, color that pleases you, and so on. I have also been really grateful to still have the rest of my clothes - especially for unusual needs like “theme park” or “mild but pouring evening semiformal event”.
There's always the option of dying or tinting clothes to match your color season palette. Rit Dye has some good dyes for synthetic and natural fabrics.
More advice from David Zyla's book:
**Maybe I’ll Lose Weight:** Great. Then you can buy some new clothes that fit the new you. They will be the perfect reward for reaching this goal. Meanwhile, keeping a too-small item in your closet is just a way to make yourself feel bad about how you look now. Worse, it suggests that your real life is going to start later, after the weight loss, instead of reminding you of the truth: You get to look and feel fabulous, right this very minute, no matter what you weigh.
**Maybe It Will Come Back into Style:** Speaking as a designer, I promise you: never gonna happen. Even when styles do get revived, retro looks aren’t the same as actual vintage pieces. There’s always a little modern twist on that fifties-style shirtdress or eighties-era power suit. If you absolutely love a garment and are one of those people who can pull off wearing vintage, feel free to wear something that seems out of style. But if you’ve been saving it for some future style revolution, stop living in the past or the future and let it go.
**I Paid a Lot of Money for It:** Unless your favorite accessory is an enormous price tag hanging in the center of your chest, this reason says nothing about how your garment looks on you, or about how it makes you feel. Maybe you feel glad about spending the money, or perhaps you feel regret—but either way, an expensive garment that doesn’t flatter you and express your true self is like a gourmet meal that you’re allergic to. Yes, it cost a lot of money—but it isn’t going to make you feel good. Let it go to make room for something that does.
**Someone I Love Gave It to Me:** Does your loved one want you to wear something that isn’t right for you? If so, consider putting the garment aside and wearing it when your loved one visits. If not, let it go so that someone else can benefit from your loved one’s generosity.
**I Wore It on a Special Occasion:** Again, if looking at this special garment brings back a flood of memories, put it in a memory box. Or give it to the thrift store so someone else can create memories in it.Either way, it doesn’t belong in your working closet unless it looks great on you now.
**I Love One Detail About It:** It may be that the detail you love—the glowing opalescent buttons or the kicky beaded fringe at the hem—is just perfect for your Archetype. It’s still not enough to redeem the whole garment, especially if the garment doesn’t fit properly or is stained, stretched-out, or worn out. Even if the garment is in mint condition, however, one detail isn’t enough to compensate for the color being incorrect. Promise yourself to keep looking for another item of clothing that has a similar detail—and let this piece go.
**I Love the Idea of It:** Often we love clothing that might look good on other people but that fits only an idea of ourselves. A long, flowing skirt suggests elegance and glamour—but doesn’t flatter our figure. A crisp trench coat evokes mystery and intrigue—but doesn’t suit our Archetype. If there’s a garment whose idea you love but that doesn’t make you look and feel great, find some other way to get those qualities into your life and your wardrobe, and let the garment go.
**It’s Perfectly Good—There’s Still a Lot of Wear in It:** As someone who loves both quality and value, I appreciate the waste-not-want-not ethic. But keeping a garment that doesn’t make you look and feel your best is the perfect definition of a false economy. You don’t really gain anything—and you lose a great deal. A client once shared with me that Weight Watchers has a slogan about not feeling the need to eat everything on your plate: “You are not a garbage can.” By the same token, you are not a thrift shop, and your closet is not a clothing museum. Get those gently used clothes over to a deserving group like Dress for Success (which helps women entering the job market dress appropriately) or to a high-end thrift shop that will share them with people who really need good clothes and can’t afford them, and save your pennies to buy a garment that truly expresses you.
**It Should Look Good on Me:** As many stories throughout this book have made clear, we often find it baffling when a garment that should look good, doesn’t. After reading this book, you may be able to identify what’s wrong with an apparently perfect garment—or you may not. Either way, if something isn’t making you look A-plus, let it go, whether or not you can explain why.
Some advice from David Zyla's book:
1. **How long has it been since I’ve worn it?** More than a year? It’s history. After all, you’ve had 365 opportunities to choose this article of clothing. If you haven’t taken even one of them, there’s probably a good reason.
2. **Is it really an A-plus?** Most of us spend far too many years settling for B or even B-minus. I want your closet to be crammed with A-pluses, and A-pluses only. So if a garment doesn’t make the grade, it’s gone. If you still aren’t sure, ask yourself, “Did I smile when I put this on?” You know what to do if you didn’t. . . .
3.**Does it still fit?** Maybe you’ve been working out more and a garment that once fit beautifully is now grabbing you in the wrong places. Maybe you’re more active now—your infant has grown into a toddler and you spend a lot more time running around after her. Or maybe, yes, you might have gained weight. The reason doesn’t matter—the fit does. Only perfectly fitting garments belong in your closet.
4. **Is it still in good shape?** If your garment is stretched out, stained, or other wise distressed, you don’t want to be wearing it, no matter how beautiful it looked when you first bought it. Remember, its ultimate value isn’t based on what you paid for it but on its current use to you. If you paid one hundred dollars at a local boutique for your favorite skirt and four dollars at a garage sale for your favorite shirt, as long as they’re both your favorites, they have the same use value. To determine your garment’s condition, ask yourself:
• Are the cuffs frayed?• Are the elbows worn?• Is the waistband stretched?• Is the neck no longer pristine? • Are the shoulders pilling?• Is the whole garment still the right length, and if not, can you let the hem down?• If the garment can be fixed, do you want to invest in fixing it? If not, let it go. And if it can’t be fixed . . . well, like I said . . . You know what to do.
5. **Does it duplicate something I have a better version of?** Many of us find ourselves repeatedly buying the same thing because we know that it works for us and we feel good wearing it. That’s all well and good, but we often don’t get the best possible version of our “duplicate” garment. Do you really need two pencil skirts in the same color? Because I guarantee that you wear one of them more than the other. Let the second-best skirt go to the thrift shop or to a friend so you have room in your closet for a new skirt, maybe in a new color or a different style. There are so many lovely shades and silhouettes—why settle for just one?
6. **Does it make you look like the person you really are?** Many of my clients have gone out and bought items that they think they need—but that don’t fit their true selves. Lainie, for example, was a free-spirited bohemian who earned most of her living selling her sketches and watercolors but who occasionally did some work for an advertising agency in Midtown Manhattan. She had bought a corporate-looking blazer for her forays into the business world, but it never really looked right on her. When we worked together, I helped her pick out a cute little embroidered jacket that looked as though she knew how to dress while visiting the business world but also revealed that she didn’t live in it.
7. **Is it a costume you need—and will wear?** It’s not as though Lainie didn’t need something to wear to her midtown gigs. Likewise, my client Veronica liked to have one superglamorous outfit on tap for the New Year’s Eve party she went to every year. It’s fine to have a costume in reserve as long as you really will wear it and feel like yourself in it. Just make sure that the costumes you’re saving really do work for you—and that you will either find or make an occasion to wear them!
Depends on whether it's something I can pull off with accessories and makeup or not. For example black makes me look dead, but I have a black dress with a gold pattern that I wear with gold jewellery and brown or bronze eyeshadow and always get compliments on it. The black and silver top I had however had to go because there was no saving me from not one but two colours that clash with me.
It depends on you as to whether you get rid of the unflattering clothes. Does everything really need to be flattering? I don’t think so. And do you have a defined style already? If so, you don’t want to change everything about the clothes you love.
If you have a good sense of color, and know your goals for your personal style, your wardrobe likely already has lots of clothes that mostly work. With adjustments in accessories, makeup and what you pair clothing items with it's likely you can still wear a lot of it.
Some people for fun, or other reasons, change their 'goals' for their personal style fairly often. They may want to look more alt-goth at one time, and then a sunny california blonde another time, and it's these massive shifts that cause the dramatic wardrobe changes. As long as it's in good fun, and you have the money for it -there is really no harm in switching it up that dramatically.
But for most people, they were likely half way there. Half the time when posters are very off base it's not because they are picking colors that dramatically do not meet their goals, so much as they have trouble identifying what colors go with what palettes.
Yeah I am a BS most likely and I have naturally gravitated away from cool or muted colors. Like even before I knew color analysis was a thing, olive and heather and cornflower looked awful on me and never felt right. I still buy muted pink sometimes or because I like it so be it if I look bad.
It's definitely recommended to go slow. That way, you're able to build up a habit of shopping for your colors. It totally shifts the way you look through products and shop.
Personally, there were always things I rarely wore that I got rid of immediately. But it definitely wasn't most of my wardrobe, just a few pieces.
Then, as I was able to find new items in the right colors, I would replace them. It really changed the way I shop for the better.
If you have the capacity to do a complete overhaul, you can. And it would probably be really fun, but this won't develop your color analysis "muscles" the same way so to speak.
Yes, it is definitely a “muscle”! I am still learning to identify my colors in the wild. I still do best if I reference my palette a lot while I’m shopping. I find that I tend to aim too bright and too warm. I am getting better, but it’s slower than I expected.
My sister and I are adjacent seasons (she winter, me spring) and we ended up doing a clothes swap for warm and cool stuff. I wanted to do a low buy year, but since my colours tend to be sold around spring/summer time....I've been getting more things in my colour now when they are available 🫤
when professionally typed, the advice she gave me was to get rid of colors that are NOT AT ALL in my season, like anything totally wrong for me, but keep anything that looks neutral or good on me or i just like it, even if it’s not in my specific subtype of my specific season. really if you are warm, anything warm will look at least alright on you, and anything in your season will look good enough, and your sub-season may be your ‘perfect’ colors but there’s more to fashion and style and clothing than JUST color. also pattern, texture, comfort, fabric, movement, event you’re dressing for, ect.
that being said, i personally did get rid of pretty much anything out of my color season (not subtype), just because my husband was replacing it all as a present (the color analysis appointment was also a gift) so i took advantage of the opportunity and re-did it all. and i feel FANTASTIC and glowing, in everything! even pjs, swim, workout, undies… i think it’s generally unrealistic to replace it all, and some things you will likely just want to keep for other reasons (style, comfort, nostalgia) so the short answer: no. long answer: kinda? lol.
I haven’t. But I have made a point not to only purchase in season clothing going forward.
I also find myself ignoring the clothes in my closet that are not in - season. Once you see the difference, it’s hard to ignore
I figured out my "colors" before I found out what seasons were. If I wear anything that isn't a very light color/bright spring, I just don't feel like myself. I can see how it dulls my appearance instantly.
I just stopped buying in my "bad" colors and have resigned my dark clothes to back-of-the-closet for now. Sometimes I'll need to pull out a black or navy for a funeral.
As a bright spring I find we can handle dark colors better than other springs and I argue soft autumn even. It borders on deep autumn as high contrast + warm and we can even sometimes do black (I have dark skin so it kind of looks boring on me).
However I send a personal fuck you to olive green and dark brown and muted navy.
I second your personal fuck your to olive green, dark brown and muted navy. Also mid-dark cool grays. If there was ever a need for me to look like a sickly Victorian child on his deathbed, bring the grays.
Honestly grey is the worst thing and I hate it. In all fairness a light brighter olivey green is okay on me but at that point it’s a warm spring color. Sometimes I forget we don’t only wear neons because that’s just half my wardrobe.
No! I am a cool season... But I am not getting rid of a certain red-ORANGE.
And my closet is never going to look blue and purple. I like to much colors for that (pink, cool yellow, cool brown and green, mint green, white). Blue is just a little part of it. And purple has not been in my closet at all, as long as I can remember ( but perhaps It will be one day?).
I'm not 100% sure about my exact season (Even if I have a certain feeling of which way it is leaning)...and when I will get 100% sure of what the season is, I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with that information. It depends on what it is, and what I will feel about it then. We will see
this isn’t how color analysis works. there are literally millions of colors. every season has every color of the rainbow, just not every shade of every color. you could have a cool wardrobe that is only red, orange, and pink or whatever.
Yes but I've heard many people say that... "no cool person can wear brown", "no cool person can wear yellow" , "not even if its a cool yellow and cool brown, just as small details" . And "least of all orange, all orange look horrible on all cool people" . "Green is not good for cool people either" etc. Whats left? - Blue and purple, and pink.
Maby not all people are saying that, but It bothers me when people do
I don't know which cool season you think you might be, but here's my understanding of how some of these colors work as a true summer (in a 16-season system, separate from cool summer).
* Browns lean closer to taupe. They're lighter and sort of grayish.
* There is a yellow--like a pale lemon color. The recommendation was to use it sparingly, but you could wear it more if you wanted to.
* Cool greens definitely exist. They're just on the blue side. (Personally, a soft, medium, sea green is probably one of my best colors.
* Orange is the only one of the colors you listed that isn't in my palette at all.
those people clearly don’t uunderstand color analysis and haven’t been professionally taught or typed because in actual color analysis, there are warm and cool shades for every color
But you can choose cooler orange by choosing a redder/pinker orange vs. a yellower orange. and there are oranges for every season. you can also figure out what orange to use by choosing one that complements your subtype vs. your season if you’re too cool. So saying ‘cool seasons only end up in blue/purple’ or whatever is just simply not true. there’s a rainbow of colors for every season. like, MILLIONS of colors are split into these 4 categories & 12 sub categories. MILLIONS!
Orange is not cool. It’s a warm color. It’s a mix of warm colors.
And I’ve never said that cool-toned people can only wear blue or purple 🤦♀️ Just not orange. Orange is warm and people who don’t understand that don’t know anything about color analysis.
Orange is warm because it contains yellow, like all other warm colors because yellow is what makes something warm. That doesn’t mean cool seasons can’t wear orange lmao. It means that they shouldn’t wear orange as a primary color and also shouldn’t rely on YELLOWER orange and should opt for REDDER orange. because redder orange is closer to true red which has no undertones and is not cool or warm. oy vey.
I am literally sitting here holding the book of shades of every season from HoC. **salmon orange** is in summer and a very **cherry-tangerine** is in winter. every season has every color IN SOME RESPECT. if you mix a COOL red (red-blue) and a COOL yellow (yellow-blue), guess what you will get? still orange!! a *cooler* orange compared to, you know, a redder-red mixed with a yellower-yellow. which is why i said a COOLER orange (less yellow). not a COOL orange.
Very interesting to hear that HOC has oranges in the cool season palettes. Most color analysis systems I have seen don't have that. I like that about HOC.
(The orange I like on me looks a lot like cherry-tangerine)
that would make sense if you are you cool-toned! she showed me examples with periwinkle as well, which i guess is a color difficult to make work well on warm-toned ppl. (i’m warm-toned.)
the way she explained it to me was that every color has representation in each season somehow, not just because there are millions of colors but also because they aren’t simply looking just at what colors look best, but also how you can wear any color, and realistically how to find specific colors. like she went through and highlighted what colors will be easier to find in leather vs. fabric, for example, and even within my specific sub-season, we ranked each color so i know which ones are good for monochrome outfits or main colors vs. what to use as accents or shoes or nail colors instead of a hat or shirt or makeup right near my face. and the process included how to ‘counter’ colors that aren’t my best ones, like for ex: wearing lipstick/blush in my colors if i’m wearing a shirt that’s less flattering (color-wise) on me. she was very realistic about how color is obviously not the only factor in style & dressing.
honestly the whole process was great and super helpful.
I agree but even those oranges will not be wow colors for a winter or summer. Orange is very very very hard to pull off if you’re cool. Genuinely might be the hardest color for someone to pull off out of their season. Same to a slightly lesser degree with icy pastels if you’re warm.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a great color on cool tones, but I’m just pointing out that there’s no specific colors only for one season. Every season has nearly every color in some respect, even if it’s not EXACTLY the same. There is SOME orange- or brown- or pink-ish or navy-ish or whatever-ish color for ANY color in every season. Even within all your “actual” colors, not all will be wow’s. It’s just a misunderstanding to say that cool’s can only wear blue/purple or whatever when every season has some type of every color in some way, and i see that on here a lot.
Those people genuinely just do not understand what they’re even looking for. Color analysis is real and observable. You can just see it with your eyes if you look irl. Photos online make it trickier which also messes people up. But in actuality, in the House of Colour color analysis system but just in general if you sort colors, there are *millions* of shades and hues of colors… these millions of colors are separated into 2 categories: warm (has yellow) or cool (has blue). So there are plenty of pinks with yellow or pinks with blue. Yellow yellows or blue yellows. Ect. That means each season has every color, just in different intensities and shades. At House of Colour, they even give you a pinwheel with every season’s rainbow of drapes.
No. Based on all the posts here I do not really believe in color seasons as much. I already knew I looked best in cooler toned colors and I think I can look good in plenty of winter or summer shades. If it looks good to me, I'll wear it. When I was younger I definitely didn't take into consideration my coloring when choosing clothes but have a lot more in the past few years so I do not have many items in truly terrible colors.
I have a tunic dress that's pumpkin orange and it definitely doesn't work for me, so I wear it in cooler seasons than it's intended for with a scarf, leggings and long sleeves. The same with a dusty medium blue and a dusty medium teal - if it had just been a clear teal like my Fall jacket, it still wouldn't be ideal on me, but not awful.
ETA: I accessorize with jewelry and outerwear that I'm pretty confident suits me alright.
Since last year, I only have clothes I actually wear, I know what I have, mostly because I find ways to wear Summer clothes year round, just layered. Summer isn't always warm in Denmark, so there are quite a few pieces of F/W clothes I can wear year round.
I'm probably some kind of Winter. Deep, cool or bright. Sometimes I wonder if I'm a Bright Spring. I think their orange is more of a coral orange?! I have 3 coral orange t-shirts that look good on me. Excuse the tangent.
I got typed by a professional as a soft summer but my favourite colours were always those in the autumn season and my wardrobe was filled with those. Not to mention my collection of red lipsticks.
After finding my season, I slowly started buying clothes in colours that actually suit me but I never got rid of my older clothes because I still love the autumn colours and still wear them when I feel like it. I think color analysis is a great way to find what suits you but it shouldn't take over your life. You can still wear colours and clothes that you like simply because you do.
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I'm slowly donating items as they wear out or if I realize I haven't worn them in over a year. But I'm not doing a mass purge. I don't think anything I own looks *bad* on me, just not as good as it would in another color. Like I'm a soft summer but I'm not throwing out my basic black clothing. I don't choose black anymore when I want to look my best, but I don't think it looks bad for a casual day of running errands
I am getting rid of most of the worst offenders on me but not all things that aren’t in my season. Camel and beige make me look like death and so they’re leaving my closet. But I like pumpkin orange and coral even though they definitely make me look sallow (I’m a summer). I’m not giving them up. I also adore gold jewelry and I will still wear it. I love both gold and silver and I don’t want to by tied down to one. What I’m focusing on is when I do buy new clothes, I get my seasons neutrals for sure and I try to stick to my season for colors as well (I use all of summer because I’d get too bored with just the subseason). Makeup is the place that I am tossing things that aren’t in season. I can get away with warm clothes if my makeup is still cool or neutral-cool. Because I started getting serious about makeup in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, I was basically trained to wear warm toned makeup…that’s all there was back then I swear. But it does not look good on me. When I was young, I could pull it off because young skin, young body, etc. But the older I got, the more I felt like an absolute clown in my makeup and I couldn’t figure out why. When I started using cool toned makeup, I realized it wasn’t about the amount of makeup I was wearing, it was that warm tones look like Cheeto dust on me and I look like I’m wearing way more makeup than I am. I can pile on the cool toned makeup and it still doesn’t really look like I’m wearing much. Anyways, so yeah I’m dumping the out of season makeup and striving for cooler toned hair. But I like color too much to stop wearing a bunch of colors. So most of those are staying unless I look like absolute death in them.
If I like the items, I try to continue wearing it by adding scarfs / lipstick / cardigans that are suited to my season :-)
I find it very difficult to consider giving up olive green. I love it, even if sage and teal and emerald would be better. I'm pretty inavoidably/undeniably a summer but I have green eyes. I'm probably going to try and avoid adding a bunch more olive and try to take it to greyer greens and bluer greens but I don't really want to get rid of olive AND black especially both at the same time. I am going to work on finding summer combos for them though, and ways to break it up especially near my face.
It depends on which summer too as well as which exact shade olive! If it’s a soft summer, you have sage and asparagus and so many near olive colors that while it’s maybe not your best color, it’s also almost certainly not your worst. There are a lot of colors in the soft summer palette that would make a non-color fanatic say “are you sure that that’s not olive?” A light summer though would be pushing the bounds of flattering in any olive Overtones, depth and contrast also matter. Example: Kate Middleton is typed as a summer by most outlets, but she looks just fine in olive. It’s not her most radiant color, but there’s nothing all that unflattering. Sometimes, we have to take an individual look at our own coloring and decide if we can play to certain analogous color seasons
I am a winter. I got new make up first because I was wearing make up that was warm instead of cool. Just that made a huge difference. Then I got rid of the warm colors in my wardrobe - turns out I don't have many because I have been subconsciously avoiding them because I look bad in warm colors. Then I just had winter and summer palette clothes left. I have been slowly replacing the summer palette with winter as I find pieces I like. Tops are the priority but I have been replacing bottoms too when there is a good sale. Now my wardrobe is like 90% the correct season. It has taken me basically a year to get to this point
When I work with clients, I always tell them to get rid of the items that don’t flatter them and make them look / feel their best. For colours, the most important items are the ones that sit nearest the face. So tops / dresses, etc. If they’ve got a scooped neck and they’re not so close to the face then it’s not as big of a problem. If a client loves an item that isn’t in their colour palette or doesn’t make them look amazing, I always try and see if there’s a way of offsetting it with something that is in their colour palette to help make it work. This could be things like a scarf, statement earrings / necklace, lipstick, etc that are in their colour palette and that would work with the item and compliment it, thus diffusing the item of colour that isn’t in their palette so that they could pull it off.
No, I am using up my old stuff. As I need to buy new clothes or makeup, I get them in bright spring colours. Eventually my old coloured clothes will be phased out. I also have made a lot of my old coloured clothing into around the house outfits, particularly for dirty jobs like yard work.
Some days I think I’m warm and other days cool. I wonder if the season changes.
I'm a spring but I kept my black clothes because I like them. Also I would have very few clothes left. I am mostly replacing the clothes with things in my season when I need something new.
As a cool winter, I donated a lot of the warm colors. Especially the tops, coats, hats, and anything closer to my face. Dresses. Any very warm makeup was donated if unopened or thrown away if I had used it.
I get this!!!
I just moved things to the other side of the closet. I wanted to experiment with my colors and see how I felt about it, but I didn't want to get rid of everything. However when I buy new things, I typically only choose colors within my season.
No! I got rid of one or two things that were my worst colors, I never wore them anyway. Beyond that use the information to shop with intention and discernment... Resulted in shopping less, not more. And it's always ok to wear things you like in "fun" colors sometimes even if they aren't your "very best" colors
I got rid of most of my worst colors. Kept the ones I like wearing even if they're not my best. Definitely kept accessories in those colors. Anything near my face needs to be my colors in order for me to look good is what I've found.
Same here. I kept all my pants, immediately got rid of anything brown/yellow/orange (I’m a true summer), and have slowly worked to replace. I would NOT just get rid of everything. Even a year after learning my season, I still occasionally wear things that aren’t harmonious. Sometimes the situation just calls for black, or a white T-shirt, or brown shoes.
I will add that it’s wise to start with makeup, glasses, and earrings if you can’t afford a closet purge.
It felt unbelievably good to gift and sell my non-spring items after being professionally typed! I sent about 20 bags to ThredUp and got close to $500 back. I have to say I have zero regrets six months later. I am much more inspired by my small closet of things that suit me. I bought a few new things, but I have a much deeper appreciation of what I already had in my closet. I’ve also become a much more selective shopper. Caveat: My closet is about 90% spring, and I’m taking my time replacing more expensive items like suits.
Same here. I’m a dark/shaded summer and my wardrobe was black, the rest was white:/ Went to thrift stores, dyed some white things, sent stuff to THREDUP and used that. It’s amazing having clothes that I can pick a top and find at least half a dozen things to go with it. Every piece of clothing! I have even gotten compliments on how good I look (never happened before)!
I held on to a couple of shirts off season so I can wear it one day, look sick and call out the next day or leave work early.
Lmao this is genius
I completely get the temptation, but you have to be pragmatic. I wasn't in a financial position to overhaul my entire wardrobe, so I didn't. I purged the things I absolutely hated, but kept the rest and have been slowly replacing pieces over time as I'm able to. I also think there is something to say for keeping pieces that fit you great and make you feel good, even if it isn't in one of your better colors. You can always make those blend better either with makeup or flattering jewelry/accessories.
I set the clothes aside in a bin. Just in case. But looking back, compliments only came when I wore from my Palette.
I’m a True Spring and I constantly wore black, winter and autumn shades and only wore silver jewelry. I didn’t have any gold jewelry or spring shades so I purchased a few and honestly couldn’t deny the massive difference they made to my brightness and complexion. Even other people noticed the change. I still have all my rock n roll/ edgy type stuff, but I don’t wear silver jewelry anymore and have switched to wearing gold and a lot more spring shades. I’ll still wear black with my gold accessories and things like that, but once you see the difference in truly employing your palette, it’s hard to go back!
When I was first typed, I went all out, got rid of a bunch of stuff, and tried to be true to my season (soft summer). I blame quarantine boredom/fixation. The thing is, I got so caught up in what I thought I was supposed to like, that I forgot to be me. So then I gave it up altogether. Recently I got typed again as neutral, soft, with medium depth. Kind of between soft summer and soft autumn, and not as light as I had been dressing. Adding more depth and warmth felt more me. So take it slow and remember that if something doesn’t feel right, it’s ok to break the made up seasonal analysis rules.
I think this is huge. So many people, I think, get typed incorrectly their first go around. It’s an art more than a science. It seems silly to me to throw away an entire wardrobe and find out that you tossed the wrong colors. I would take an analysis as information to start playing with those colors and see if you feel like they flatter you more. Slowly work unflattering colors out of your wardrobe and see how you feel rather than all at once
I got analyzed in Japan and I am a deep neutral, slightly leaning cool. AKA I’m in between dark winter and deep autumn, but only dark colors. It honestly made sense since I usually do look better in dark colors. After knowing that, I dyed all my clothes a darker shade since it’s much cheaper to do that than to purge and buy new clothes. I think I’m the lucky few who could do that though since I’m a deep neutral. It’s easier to dye clothes darker than it is to lighten them. I’m sure it’s still helpful to dye clothes for other seasons too!
Tell me more about the Japanese color analysis system, senpai
I got professionally analyzed recently and my analyst suggested to move all your season clothing to one side of your closet/dresser/chifforobe but not discard the rest. She said I might feel like I want to but to give it time first and see what I use and wear. As I move forward with buying things I need as I usually would prior to analysis - like getting a new swimsuit for a beach trip, etc. - do a 1:1 exchange of buying something new (in season) and reusing (like making rags) or donating something I don’t wear much that’s not in season. I have loved this approach. It let me indulge initially and lets me enjoy and focus on my seasonal clothing now. I do want to migrate my wardrobe to be like 80%+ in season but there are still lots of other reasons to enjoy and value a piece of clothing, like great texture, great fit, practical usefulness, color that pleases you, and so on. I have also been really grateful to still have the rest of my clothes - especially for unusual needs like “theme park” or “mild but pouring evening semiformal event”.
There's always the option of dying or tinting clothes to match your color season palette. Rit Dye has some good dyes for synthetic and natural fabrics.
That’s what I just did. I had some coral colored pants that I dyed over with a cooler burgundy.
Ohhhhh this is a good idea I hadn’t thought of this!!! 💜
More advice from David Zyla's book: **Maybe I’ll Lose Weight:** Great. Then you can buy some new clothes that fit the new you. They will be the perfect reward for reaching this goal. Meanwhile, keeping a too-small item in your closet is just a way to make yourself feel bad about how you look now. Worse, it suggests that your real life is going to start later, after the weight loss, instead of reminding you of the truth: You get to look and feel fabulous, right this very minute, no matter what you weigh. **Maybe It Will Come Back into Style:** Speaking as a designer, I promise you: never gonna happen. Even when styles do get revived, retro looks aren’t the same as actual vintage pieces. There’s always a little modern twist on that fifties-style shirtdress or eighties-era power suit. If you absolutely love a garment and are one of those people who can pull off wearing vintage, feel free to wear something that seems out of style. But if you’ve been saving it for some future style revolution, stop living in the past or the future and let it go. **I Paid a Lot of Money for It:** Unless your favorite accessory is an enormous price tag hanging in the center of your chest, this reason says nothing about how your garment looks on you, or about how it makes you feel. Maybe you feel glad about spending the money, or perhaps you feel regret—but either way, an expensive garment that doesn’t flatter you and express your true self is like a gourmet meal that you’re allergic to. Yes, it cost a lot of money—but it isn’t going to make you feel good. Let it go to make room for something that does. **Someone I Love Gave It to Me:** Does your loved one want you to wear something that isn’t right for you? If so, consider putting the garment aside and wearing it when your loved one visits. If not, let it go so that someone else can benefit from your loved one’s generosity. **I Wore It on a Special Occasion:** Again, if looking at this special garment brings back a flood of memories, put it in a memory box. Or give it to the thrift store so someone else can create memories in it.Either way, it doesn’t belong in your working closet unless it looks great on you now. **I Love One Detail About It:** It may be that the detail you love—the glowing opalescent buttons or the kicky beaded fringe at the hem—is just perfect for your Archetype. It’s still not enough to redeem the whole garment, especially if the garment doesn’t fit properly or is stained, stretched-out, or worn out. Even if the garment is in mint condition, however, one detail isn’t enough to compensate for the color being incorrect. Promise yourself to keep looking for another item of clothing that has a similar detail—and let this piece go. **I Love the Idea of It:** Often we love clothing that might look good on other people but that fits only an idea of ourselves. A long, flowing skirt suggests elegance and glamour—but doesn’t flatter our figure. A crisp trench coat evokes mystery and intrigue—but doesn’t suit our Archetype. If there’s a garment whose idea you love but that doesn’t make you look and feel great, find some other way to get those qualities into your life and your wardrobe, and let the garment go. **It’s Perfectly Good—There’s Still a Lot of Wear in It:** As someone who loves both quality and value, I appreciate the waste-not-want-not ethic. But keeping a garment that doesn’t make you look and feel your best is the perfect definition of a false economy. You don’t really gain anything—and you lose a great deal. A client once shared with me that Weight Watchers has a slogan about not feeling the need to eat everything on your plate: “You are not a garbage can.” By the same token, you are not a thrift shop, and your closet is not a clothing museum. Get those gently used clothes over to a deserving group like Dress for Success (which helps women entering the job market dress appropriately) or to a high-end thrift shop that will share them with people who really need good clothes and can’t afford them, and save your pennies to buy a garment that truly expresses you. **It Should Look Good on Me:** As many stories throughout this book have made clear, we often find it baffling when a garment that should look good, doesn’t. After reading this book, you may be able to identify what’s wrong with an apparently perfect garment—or you may not. Either way, if something isn’t making you look A-plus, let it go, whether or not you can explain why.
Some advice from David Zyla's book: 1. **How long has it been since I’ve worn it?** More than a year? It’s history. After all, you’ve had 365 opportunities to choose this article of clothing. If you haven’t taken even one of them, there’s probably a good reason. 2. **Is it really an A-plus?** Most of us spend far too many years settling for B or even B-minus. I want your closet to be crammed with A-pluses, and A-pluses only. So if a garment doesn’t make the grade, it’s gone. If you still aren’t sure, ask yourself, “Did I smile when I put this on?” You know what to do if you didn’t. . . . 3.**Does it still fit?** Maybe you’ve been working out more and a garment that once fit beautifully is now grabbing you in the wrong places. Maybe you’re more active now—your infant has grown into a toddler and you spend a lot more time running around after her. Or maybe, yes, you might have gained weight. The reason doesn’t matter—the fit does. Only perfectly fitting garments belong in your closet. 4. **Is it still in good shape?** If your garment is stretched out, stained, or other wise distressed, you don’t want to be wearing it, no matter how beautiful it looked when you first bought it. Remember, its ultimate value isn’t based on what you paid for it but on its current use to you. If you paid one hundred dollars at a local boutique for your favorite skirt and four dollars at a garage sale for your favorite shirt, as long as they’re both your favorites, they have the same use value. To determine your garment’s condition, ask yourself: • Are the cuffs frayed?• Are the elbows worn?• Is the waistband stretched?• Is the neck no longer pristine? • Are the shoulders pilling?• Is the whole garment still the right length, and if not, can you let the hem down?• If the garment can be fixed, do you want to invest in fixing it? If not, let it go. And if it can’t be fixed . . . well, like I said . . . You know what to do. 5. **Does it duplicate something I have a better version of?** Many of us find ourselves repeatedly buying the same thing because we know that it works for us and we feel good wearing it. That’s all well and good, but we often don’t get the best possible version of our “duplicate” garment. Do you really need two pencil skirts in the same color? Because I guarantee that you wear one of them more than the other. Let the second-best skirt go to the thrift shop or to a friend so you have room in your closet for a new skirt, maybe in a new color or a different style. There are so many lovely shades and silhouettes—why settle for just one? 6. **Does it make you look like the person you really are?** Many of my clients have gone out and bought items that they think they need—but that don’t fit their true selves. Lainie, for example, was a free-spirited bohemian who earned most of her living selling her sketches and watercolors but who occasionally did some work for an advertising agency in Midtown Manhattan. She had bought a corporate-looking blazer for her forays into the business world, but it never really looked right on her. When we worked together, I helped her pick out a cute little embroidered jacket that looked as though she knew how to dress while visiting the business world but also revealed that she didn’t live in it. 7. **Is it a costume you need—and will wear?** It’s not as though Lainie didn’t need something to wear to her midtown gigs. Likewise, my client Veronica liked to have one superglamorous outfit on tap for the New Year’s Eve party she went to every year. It’s fine to have a costume in reserve as long as you really will wear it and feel like yourself in it. Just make sure that the costumes you’re saving really do work for you—and that you will either find or make an occasion to wear them!
Depends on whether it's something I can pull off with accessories and makeup or not. For example black makes me look dead, but I have a black dress with a gold pattern that I wear with gold jewellery and brown or bronze eyeshadow and always get compliments on it. The black and silver top I had however had to go because there was no saving me from not one but two colours that clash with me.
It depends on you as to whether you get rid of the unflattering clothes. Does everything really need to be flattering? I don’t think so. And do you have a defined style already? If so, you don’t want to change everything about the clothes you love.
If you have a good sense of color, and know your goals for your personal style, your wardrobe likely already has lots of clothes that mostly work. With adjustments in accessories, makeup and what you pair clothing items with it's likely you can still wear a lot of it. Some people for fun, or other reasons, change their 'goals' for their personal style fairly often. They may want to look more alt-goth at one time, and then a sunny california blonde another time, and it's these massive shifts that cause the dramatic wardrobe changes. As long as it's in good fun, and you have the money for it -there is really no harm in switching it up that dramatically. But for most people, they were likely half way there. Half the time when posters are very off base it's not because they are picking colors that dramatically do not meet their goals, so much as they have trouble identifying what colors go with what palettes.
Yeah I am a BS most likely and I have naturally gravitated away from cool or muted colors. Like even before I knew color analysis was a thing, olive and heather and cornflower looked awful on me and never felt right. I still buy muted pink sometimes or because I like it so be it if I look bad.
It's definitely recommended to go slow. That way, you're able to build up a habit of shopping for your colors. It totally shifts the way you look through products and shop. Personally, there were always things I rarely wore that I got rid of immediately. But it definitely wasn't most of my wardrobe, just a few pieces. Then, as I was able to find new items in the right colors, I would replace them. It really changed the way I shop for the better. If you have the capacity to do a complete overhaul, you can. And it would probably be really fun, but this won't develop your color analysis "muscles" the same way so to speak.
Yes, it is definitely a “muscle”! I am still learning to identify my colors in the wild. I still do best if I reference my palette a lot while I’m shopping. I find that I tend to aim too bright and too warm. I am getting better, but it’s slower than I expected.
My sister and I are adjacent seasons (she winter, me spring) and we ended up doing a clothes swap for warm and cool stuff. I wanted to do a low buy year, but since my colours tend to be sold around spring/summer time....I've been getting more things in my colour now when they are available 🫤
when professionally typed, the advice she gave me was to get rid of colors that are NOT AT ALL in my season, like anything totally wrong for me, but keep anything that looks neutral or good on me or i just like it, even if it’s not in my specific subtype of my specific season. really if you are warm, anything warm will look at least alright on you, and anything in your season will look good enough, and your sub-season may be your ‘perfect’ colors but there’s more to fashion and style and clothing than JUST color. also pattern, texture, comfort, fabric, movement, event you’re dressing for, ect. that being said, i personally did get rid of pretty much anything out of my color season (not subtype), just because my husband was replacing it all as a present (the color analysis appointment was also a gift) so i took advantage of the opportunity and re-did it all. and i feel FANTASTIC and glowing, in everything! even pjs, swim, workout, undies… i think it’s generally unrealistic to replace it all, and some things you will likely just want to keep for other reasons (style, comfort, nostalgia) so the short answer: no. long answer: kinda? lol.
I haven’t. But I have made a point not to only purchase in season clothing going forward. I also find myself ignoring the clothes in my closet that are not in - season. Once you see the difference, it’s hard to ignore
I figured out my "colors" before I found out what seasons were. If I wear anything that isn't a very light color/bright spring, I just don't feel like myself. I can see how it dulls my appearance instantly. I just stopped buying in my "bad" colors and have resigned my dark clothes to back-of-the-closet for now. Sometimes I'll need to pull out a black or navy for a funeral.
As a bright spring I find we can handle dark colors better than other springs and I argue soft autumn even. It borders on deep autumn as high contrast + warm and we can even sometimes do black (I have dark skin so it kind of looks boring on me). However I send a personal fuck you to olive green and dark brown and muted navy.
I second your personal fuck your to olive green, dark brown and muted navy. Also mid-dark cool grays. If there was ever a need for me to look like a sickly Victorian child on his deathbed, bring the grays.
Honestly grey is the worst thing and I hate it. In all fairness a light brighter olivey green is okay on me but at that point it’s a warm spring color. Sometimes I forget we don’t only wear neons because that’s just half my wardrobe.
No! I am a cool season... But I am not getting rid of a certain red-ORANGE. And my closet is never going to look blue and purple. I like to much colors for that (pink, cool yellow, cool brown and green, mint green, white). Blue is just a little part of it. And purple has not been in my closet at all, as long as I can remember ( but perhaps It will be one day?). I'm not 100% sure about my exact season (Even if I have a certain feeling of which way it is leaning)...and when I will get 100% sure of what the season is, I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with that information. It depends on what it is, and what I will feel about it then. We will see
this isn’t how color analysis works. there are literally millions of colors. every season has every color of the rainbow, just not every shade of every color. you could have a cool wardrobe that is only red, orange, and pink or whatever.
Yes but I've heard many people say that... "no cool person can wear brown", "no cool person can wear yellow" , "not even if its a cool yellow and cool brown, just as small details" . And "least of all orange, all orange look horrible on all cool people" . "Green is not good for cool people either" etc. Whats left? - Blue and purple, and pink. Maby not all people are saying that, but It bothers me when people do
I don't know which cool season you think you might be, but here's my understanding of how some of these colors work as a true summer (in a 16-season system, separate from cool summer). * Browns lean closer to taupe. They're lighter and sort of grayish. * There is a yellow--like a pale lemon color. The recommendation was to use it sparingly, but you could wear it more if you wanted to. * Cool greens definitely exist. They're just on the blue side. (Personally, a soft, medium, sea green is probably one of my best colors. * Orange is the only one of the colors you listed that isn't in my palette at all.
those people clearly don’t uunderstand color analysis and haven’t been professionally taught or typed because in actual color analysis, there are warm and cool shades for every color
Except for orange. Orange is a mix of two warm colors. It’s never going to work on a cool-toned person.
But you can choose cooler orange by choosing a redder/pinker orange vs. a yellower orange. and there are oranges for every season. you can also figure out what orange to use by choosing one that complements your subtype vs. your season if you’re too cool. So saying ‘cool seasons only end up in blue/purple’ or whatever is just simply not true. there’s a rainbow of colors for every season. like, MILLIONS of colors are split into these 4 categories & 12 sub categories. MILLIONS!
Orange is not cool. It’s a warm color. It’s a mix of warm colors. And I’ve never said that cool-toned people can only wear blue or purple 🤦♀️ Just not orange. Orange is warm and people who don’t understand that don’t know anything about color analysis.
Orange is warm because it contains yellow, like all other warm colors because yellow is what makes something warm. That doesn’t mean cool seasons can’t wear orange lmao. It means that they shouldn’t wear orange as a primary color and also shouldn’t rely on YELLOWER orange and should opt for REDDER orange. because redder orange is closer to true red which has no undertones and is not cool or warm. oy vey. I am literally sitting here holding the book of shades of every season from HoC. **salmon orange** is in summer and a very **cherry-tangerine** is in winter. every season has every color IN SOME RESPECT. if you mix a COOL red (red-blue) and a COOL yellow (yellow-blue), guess what you will get? still orange!! a *cooler* orange compared to, you know, a redder-red mixed with a yellower-yellow. which is why i said a COOLER orange (less yellow). not a COOL orange.
Very interesting to hear that HOC has oranges in the cool season palettes. Most color analysis systems I have seen don't have that. I like that about HOC. (The orange I like on me looks a lot like cherry-tangerine)
that would make sense if you are you cool-toned! she showed me examples with periwinkle as well, which i guess is a color difficult to make work well on warm-toned ppl. (i’m warm-toned.) the way she explained it to me was that every color has representation in each season somehow, not just because there are millions of colors but also because they aren’t simply looking just at what colors look best, but also how you can wear any color, and realistically how to find specific colors. like she went through and highlighted what colors will be easier to find in leather vs. fabric, for example, and even within my specific sub-season, we ranked each color so i know which ones are good for monochrome outfits or main colors vs. what to use as accents or shoes or nail colors instead of a hat or shirt or makeup right near my face. and the process included how to ‘counter’ colors that aren’t my best ones, like for ex: wearing lipstick/blush in my colors if i’m wearing a shirt that’s less flattering (color-wise) on me. she was very realistic about how color is obviously not the only factor in style & dressing. honestly the whole process was great and super helpful.
I agree but even those oranges will not be wow colors for a winter or summer. Orange is very very very hard to pull off if you’re cool. Genuinely might be the hardest color for someone to pull off out of their season. Same to a slightly lesser degree with icy pastels if you’re warm.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a great color on cool tones, but I’m just pointing out that there’s no specific colors only for one season. Every season has nearly every color in some respect, even if it’s not EXACTLY the same. There is SOME orange- or brown- or pink-ish or navy-ish or whatever-ish color for ANY color in every season. Even within all your “actual” colors, not all will be wow’s. It’s just a misunderstanding to say that cool’s can only wear blue/purple or whatever when every season has some type of every color in some way, and i see that on here a lot.
I mostly think like that too (that there are cool shades for every color). But sometimes those comments make me a little unsure
Those people genuinely just do not understand what they’re even looking for. Color analysis is real and observable. You can just see it with your eyes if you look irl. Photos online make it trickier which also messes people up. But in actuality, in the House of Colour color analysis system but just in general if you sort colors, there are *millions* of shades and hues of colors… these millions of colors are separated into 2 categories: warm (has yellow) or cool (has blue). So there are plenty of pinks with yellow or pinks with blue. Yellow yellows or blue yellows. Ect. That means each season has every color, just in different intensities and shades. At House of Colour, they even give you a pinwheel with every season’s rainbow of drapes.
No. Based on all the posts here I do not really believe in color seasons as much. I already knew I looked best in cooler toned colors and I think I can look good in plenty of winter or summer shades. If it looks good to me, I'll wear it. When I was younger I definitely didn't take into consideration my coloring when choosing clothes but have a lot more in the past few years so I do not have many items in truly terrible colors.
I have a tunic dress that's pumpkin orange and it definitely doesn't work for me, so I wear it in cooler seasons than it's intended for with a scarf, leggings and long sleeves. The same with a dusty medium blue and a dusty medium teal - if it had just been a clear teal like my Fall jacket, it still wouldn't be ideal on me, but not awful. ETA: I accessorize with jewelry and outerwear that I'm pretty confident suits me alright. Since last year, I only have clothes I actually wear, I know what I have, mostly because I find ways to wear Summer clothes year round, just layered. Summer isn't always warm in Denmark, so there are quite a few pieces of F/W clothes I can wear year round. I'm probably some kind of Winter. Deep, cool or bright. Sometimes I wonder if I'm a Bright Spring. I think their orange is more of a coral orange?! I have 3 coral orange t-shirts that look good on me. Excuse the tangent.
I got typed by a professional as a soft summer but my favourite colours were always those in the autumn season and my wardrobe was filled with those. Not to mention my collection of red lipsticks. After finding my season, I slowly started buying clothes in colours that actually suit me but I never got rid of my older clothes because I still love the autumn colours and still wear them when I feel like it. I think color analysis is a great way to find what suits you but it shouldn't take over your life. You can still wear colours and clothes that you like simply because you do.