Color has the power to enhance or detract from your personal appearance, can lift or depress the spirit and carry messages to others. Color can also create visual illusions of body size, shape and proportions. Dark, neutral colors make the figure appear smaller, while light and bright colors will make it appear larger. Colors also enhance you both physically and emotionally. Dark, subdued colors may be appropriate for your figure, but you may need the “lift” of bright and light accent colors, depending on the occasion.
Neutral colors are a great base for creating an outfit, even an entire wardrobe. Using neutrals as your core color creates many possibilities and ways to introduce other colors into your wardrobe, while having a balanced closet full of clothes that intermix. For example, try mixing a tan pair of pants with a blouse in a hue of green. Put on a great pair of shoes in white with a green or tan accent and a white, tan or green bag and you’ll look dynamite.
Here are some tips for colors and accent colors:
Black – white, tan, brown, pink, purple, burgundy, blue, gray Brown – white, tan, yellow, green, orange, pink, burgundy, blue, red, crème, black White – tan, yellow, brown, orange, green, pink, purple, red, blue/navy, burgundy, gray, black Tan – white, crème, yellow, brown, orange, green, purple, pink, burgundy, red, blue/navy, black Gray – white, yellow, green, pink, purple, burgundy, blue/navy, black
