When you don’t have many occasions to dress for and your days are mostly casual, color can give your outfits variety, keeping them interesting and lively. Age doesn’t matter. All you have to do is choose your favorite colors that look good on you. That’s an easy way to brighten your outfit and your day — with color!
Every season, I like to see what colors are trending by checking out the Pantone Institute’s color report. Pantone distills the colors most seen on the runways at the designer shows, makes a list of them and interprets the moods that the colors elicit.
Pantone gives the trending colors their own names and specific shades. That’s helpful if you’re shopping and want to look for the shades of the moment. You can see the exact shades of their
Spring/Summer 2020 colors HERE.
But I think it makes it much easier to put together outfits out of what we have to just think of the trending colors in general terms. So I looked at the Pantone colors for Spring and Summer 2020 and listed them below using the names we usually call them by.
And the classic blue in this spring/summer 2020 palette is Pantone’s named color of the year. So besides being a basic classic color that never goes out of style, this color is still going to keep you looking modern throughout the rest of this year — a good buy if you don’t already have it!
Here’s how to brighten your outfit and your day with color:
Following are the season’s trending colors and ways to combine them.
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Color Combos, Color Series, Style Tips
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.
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Color Combos, Color Series, Outfit Combinations
Autumn/Winter Colors, Color Combinations, Fashion
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
