How to Match a Wardrobe With Color & Style Matching
You can match the colors and styles in your wardrobe, with the help of some simple tools and the opinion of a trusted friend. If you want to continue wearing the clothing you currently have hanging in your closet and folded in your dresser drawers, and save money on new clothing, devote some time on a weekend to categorizing by style and color and creating new combinations. By consulting a color wheel you can learn which colors work well with each other and find out which colors just clash.
Things You'll Need
- Sufficient room to spread clothing out
- Your clothing
- Color wheel
- Extra set of eyes
- Paper and pencil
- Fashion magazines
Instructions
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Color
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Spread your clothing around in a large space. Group similar colors together. Look at a color wheel and learn where each color is placed in relation to other colors. (See Resource, below)
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Pick an outfit or two separates--pants and blouse--in two different colors. Find their colors on your color wheel. If they are analogous, or lying next to each other, these colors may work well together.
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Begin putting blouses, pants and skirts together and see how well they go with each other.
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Ask someone whose color judgment you trust for her opinion on each combination you try. Write down notes about each combination.
Style
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Look for items of clothing and accessories that reflect "you." These don't have to be very expensive.
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Find colors that will work well with patterns, such as white, black, red, blue, green and tan. Write down in your color-matching notes which accessories "work" with certain outfits or separates. Include shoes, pieces of jewelry and purses.
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Refer to fashion magazines to see how models are wearing clothing and accessories. Buy accessories that you can use with more than one outfit. These items should be neutral-colored.
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Tips & Warnings
Blue's analogous colors are violet and green. Red's analogous colors are yellow and orange.
If you don't have good color sense, don't try to "create" a new look by yourself. Ask a friend whose color and style sense you trust for help in creating new matches in your color schemes.
