What Colors Go Best With Olive for the Most Beautiful Outfits?
Black or white go with anything so they pair easily with olive green, a versatile color in its own right. And it’s a no-brainer to wear an olive top or jacket with blue jeans, since they go with everything too! But do you know off the top of your head what colors go best with olive to make the most beautiful outfits? Age doesn’t matter when you use color to your advantage!
In one of their Autumn/Winter trend reports, the Pantone Color Institute listed olive as a classic color.
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What Colors Go Best With Olive Green?
Take a look below and see what color pairings I’ve come up with. If you have even more colors that you like to pair with olive, I’d love to hear from you! Please leave your reply below this post.
Combine olive with a cream plaid shirt, a cream cardigan and ivory pants for a beautiful neutral look.
Over 18 Colors That Go Well With Olive (Include Prints)
Here is a list of colors that go well with olive green. Below the list, I have outfit examples with these and even more color combinations, including prints. I hope these options get your ideas flowing for how you can combine your olive green clothes with other colors in your closet to create new outfits you may never have thought of!
- Cream, bone or beige
- Pale pink or blush
- Apricot or peach
- Mustard or yellow
- Coral
- Orange or pumpkin
- Red orange or orange red
- Red and gold
- Rust
- Maroon, burgundy or cranberry red
- Violet, purple or plum
- Warm blues, blue greens or light aqua
- Denim blue or indigo
- Navy…you may also want to add gray to this color combo
- Gray
- Golden brown
- Other shades of green such as mint, sage, army green, etc.
- Black
- Animal prints
Accessories for Warm and Cool-Toned Complexions
If you have warm undertones in your hair, skin and eyes, gold or bronze accessories would look best on you.
If you have cool undertones, silver should go nicely as accessories with olive clothes since gray goes well with olive. But since olive is a warm color, if you have cool tones it’s best to keep olive away from your face and use it in pants or skirts or accessories such as shoes or bags.
Turquoise jewelry looks good whether your coloring is warm or cool, depending on its specific shade. It contains elements of both blue (cool) and yellow (warm). Generally, deeper turquoise tends to be warmer, while lighter shades lean towards cooler tones.
If you don’t know what your most flattering color palette is, I would advise you to visit Pamela at her blog Style Yourself Confident. Pamela is a color consultant and has a number of ways to help you with that.
A brown belt, bag and/or shoes are a perfect choice when you wear olive.
Dress your olive outfits up or down with heels or Converse sneakers.
Outfit Ideas With Colors That Go Best With Olive
Wear With White, Cream, Bone or Beige
- Wear a cream top and olive leggings with a sage or army green cardigan or duster.
- Pair a chunky ivory sweater with olive leggings or slim pants. You might like to add Birkenstock clogs or high-top sneakers.
Wear Olive With Khaki
Pair an olive green sweater with khaki pants & animal-print shoes.
Wear It With Pink or Blush
Wear a pink or blush shirt with olive joggers, pants or skirt. Looks great with gold accessories!
Wear It With Apricot or Peach
An olive vest gets a glow from a peach top over blue jeans.
Wear It With Mustard or Yellow
Alana Midi Skirt from Soft Surroundings in dusty olive
- Tuck a yellow ochre top into an olive skirt. Add gold earrings & footwear.
- Pair a yellow sweater with olive bottoms.
Wear Olive With Coral
With a coral or red top & olive bottoms, you might like to add tan footwear & gold bracelets.
Wear Olive With Orange or Pumpkin
A burnt orange topper over a brown top & olive jeans. Add gold jewelry.
Wear Olive With Red Orange or Orange Red
- Pair an olive hoodie with a red-orange skirt or pants.
- Reminder: wear a red-orange top with olive bottoms or an olive top with red-orange bottoms.
Wear With Reds: Maroon, Burgundy, Cranberry, Rust or True Red
Top olive skinnies with a burgundy blazer and beige lace top. Shoot the cuffs and add a brooch.
Wear With Violet, Purple or Plum
Pair a short-sleeve or long-sleeve purple tunic with olive skinnies. Add green earrings & a scarf.
Wear With Blues: Warm, Light, Medium, Blue Greens or Aqua
Pair a blue-green top with olive bottoms or an olive top with blue-green, warm blue, medium blue or aqua bottoms.
Wear With Denim Blue or Indigo
Mare Mare Cropped Shrug from Anthropologie
- Top a denim top & bottom with an olive cardigan. Add boots.
- A denim jacket + a black tunic-length top + olive skinnies. Add leopard footwear + a leopard scarf.
Wear Olive With Navy Blue
- Wear olive pants with a navy printed top and navy jacket. Then add a scarf in olive or another shade of green.
- A navy top + olive bottoms or an olive top + navy bottoms.
Wear Olive With Gray or Silver
- Pair a gray t-shirt with olive green jogger pants. Add gold & turquoise jewelry + tan footwear.
- A gray or silver duster, printed or not, + olive pants.
- Wear a gray poncho over olive skinnies.
- Pair an olive top with gray corduroy pants.
- Wear a white graphic tee under an olive shirt with tan corduroy pants. Add tan flats and perhaps even a snake-print belt! In lieu of bronze sequins as above, you might like to add a bronze sparkly brooch or two.
- Mix a brown top or topper with olive bottoms, or an olive top or topper with brown bottoms.
Wear Olive With Other Shades of Green
- An olive top + green pants or skirt + gray and/or brown accessories.
- Top a t-shirt & olive pants with a sage green duster kimono.
Wear Olive With Black
- Pair an olive green sweater with black faux leather trousers. Add a black bag & black heeled sandals.
- An olive utility jacket + a graphic tee tucked into a black faux leather skirt. Add black footwear.
- A black sequined blouse + olive bottoms. Add black heeled sandals or cutout booties, a black beret, a black choker, etc.
- A black tunic + olive pants or leggings + a splash of leopard print.
Wear Olive With Animal Prints
We know that animal prints are a classic that never goes out of style. And they go with everything. So how could I pass up the idea of combining it with olive green? They are perfect together!
- Try an olive top with leopard-print pants & shoes.
- A leopard tunic + olive skinnies. You might like to add flat sandals.
So What Colors Go With Olive?
Olive green is a popular classic neutral that can be worn anytime but is best known as a Fall color. As such, it can go with just about any other hue during any season and even for evening if it is in special fabrics. But combine it with the colors shown in this post to create the most beautiful outfits, as you can see by the photos above!
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Angie
At first, my thought was my favorite color to pair with olive is burgundy. Then, I saw it paired with pumpkin, and my mind was changed instantly! I love that combination! I may have to try it as I have a pumpkin top (and sweater) and an olive utility jacket. Thanks for all the different ideas, Angie!
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Pumpkin is a much brighter color to combine with olive than burgundy! I’m glad you found a new favorite combo. 🙂