And perhaps do you know what your season is, in the first place? If you have no idea, the chart at the bottom of this site should give you a decent idea of which season you are. A recent thread asked people if they only wore a couple of colors, which got me wondering about this subject…
Like most natural redheads, I’m an Autumn. Almost without exception all the colors I wear are “allowed” for the season; earthtones, neutrals, and blues. I’d like to say that my color choices are completely without forethought, but I dimly recall a unit in home ec revolving around our seasons, I so maybe have internalized the advice I was given as a thirteen-year-old. Who knows.
I don’t wear anything on the orange spectrum they give (orange-pink-yellow) at all, because no matter what they say about autumns, most redheads don’t carry it off well. I’ve been able to pull off just the right shades of red and palest pink, but it’s not something I do more than once in a blue moon. (I really want a cranberry sweater, though. I think it would look okay). The only “don’t” on the list I disagree with is black - I look good in black!
So how about you, do you dress in the “right” colors? And which ones do you look good in even though they’re not supposed to? This is a question for the guys too - the link I gave is one clearly with guys in mind.
Although I didn’t know it until this moment, I am a Winter. I happen to have been wearing the right colors, apparently.
I wear a lot of black, and when I do wear colors, I tend to wear either very vivid colors or very “cold” almost white pastels. Regular pastels (like baby girl pink) make me look dead. I look terrible in brown or yellow, so I never wear them. When I wear white, it has to be real white, not cream or ivory or something.
I’m an autumn. I do wear colours in the autumn range, and in fact, wear a lot of orange in the burnt orange to rust shades. I was a happy shopper this year when there was so much of it in the stores.
I’m a summer. I like to wear black, grey, and blue the most. I have some pink too. I don’t like bright colors (red, orange, yellow). I have a brown hoodie. The site tells me not to wear brown really but the hoodie is cute. I don’t dig earth tones too much anyway. I like black because it matches my glasses. And it’s easy to wear. Jeans
black = fine, jeans + grey dress pants = fine, etc. I wear whatever I like. The site says its okay for a darker blonde (my hair isn’t super dark but it’s not that light either) with darker skin to wear darker colors. If I devote time to it, I can get pretty tan in the summers, so I’m never ghostly pale. But I like myself in darker colors, and usually with just an accent of a brighter color (like throwing on a turquoise bracelet when I am wearing a black shirt and jeans).
I’m a winter, and male. My wardrobe is almost entirely black, white, red and dark blue. I also look good in dark greens, but all I have of that in my wardrobe is an emerald green T-shirt (with Green Lantern insignia).
I have two winter coats: one is black and red, and the other is a Miami Dolphins Starter coat in bright aqua blue and orange, and it looks good on me too.
The only colors I actively avoid are browns, mainly because I just don’t like brown clothes. So it’s good that I probably wouldn’t look good in them anyway
I have auburn hair myself and primarily wear blue colored clothing. Jeans are always a blue variant, 95% of my t-shirts are blue in different shades, but usually darker blues. Then I have a couple white T’s for undershirts, but still wear my blue ones for unders. My button downs all have blue in them. I like white button downs shirts with blue stripes of different shades. I’ve got a brown one too, but hardly ever wear it. I don’t dig brown at all. I wear black shoes, have a couple black coats and a grey one too.
I would like to try other colors, but being auburn with pale skin, I don’t think much else compliments me color-wise. Blue and black is what works. I could probably get into green, but it’s got to be a darker green to work. With the exception of white, when using colors, they usually have to be darker to not be considered “loud” for me.
I’m a winter. I wear winter colours. I have vague half-memories of encountering Colour Me Beautiful when I was young, but I’ve gradually shifted over the years to winter colours because I like them. A lot of black and red. I do wear a little Army green, but not most earth tones.
Are you me? I’m a winter. I mostly wear black (possibly because I used to be a depressed teenager, not because it was appropriate, but fortunatly it still works) and “jewel tones”. I’m very pale…what comes from not getting out of your coffin till after dark. And have had black hair most of my life. You could only get me into a pastel at gunpoint.
I’ve never been able to figure out what season I am. I’m either autumn or spring, I think. Here’s me, sans makeup. I look a little yellow in that picture, though, my skin tone is generally “ivory” in foundation. That’s not my natural hair color. (What is? I’m not sure. It’s that really blah color that colorists call “ash blonde” and real people call “light brown”.)
I’d say my clothes are pretty well split between autumn and spring colors. I like vibrant shades, but I feel overwhelmed in them sometimes. In the summer, I tend more to pastels.
I’m not quite sure what I am; I look best in some autumn and some winter colors. I like dark greens, blues, and plums, and the chocolate brown that is so popular now looks great on me. I never, ever wear pastels (or raspberry tones); that’s a disaster, except some shades of light green.
I have very fair skin, but it tends to redden very easily. My hair is medium brown with some red in it, and my eyes brown.
Meh. I’m a solid winter (dark hair, very pale skin, blue/grey/green eyes) and I’ve been rocking the autumn colours this season. They’ve actually been doing a lot to make me look less at death’s door and more healthy. However, I do also really wear the winter colours a lot and always have, deep red and black together are probably the colours I feel most comfortable in. But I definitely look more dramatic in the winter colours than in the autumn colours, so it depends how I want to present myself, approachable or formidable.
Another winter here. Vultures and/or undertakers would follow me around if I wore yellows or oranges or most greens. Ew. I can wear some light blues and a very light yellow but I hate pink and will not wear it even if it does suit me.
Purple and red are best on me with royal blue not far behind. I have these colours, various other blues, and some teals in my wardrobe - with of course good ol’ standby black.
What I do not get is women who had brown or darker hair who have had their hair dyed blonde (which usually turns out more a reddish tone that I doubt exists in nature) and then they wear beiges and browns and look dead. There’s a woman at work like that. The other day she wore burgundy and looked worlds better. She was complimented by me and others but she’s back in beiges again.
I think Andy would be most annoyed with me – I go around in either black, navy, or whatever the heck I have in my T-shirt pile that’s clean. Seasonal colours? Huh! Hardly ever in my size …
Nope. I wear black. It’s good for any season! I know it probably doesn’t suit me because I’m pale, but I don’t care. I like black and I want to wear it. You can stuff yer girlie pastels!
I have no idea what season I’m in. I’m a natural redhead with natural blonde streaks. I have pale skin that’s pink-toned, no freckles, rosy cheeks. Blue eyes.
I can wear the following easily: bright red, rusty orange, purple/mauve, any tone of pink from screaming fuchsia to lipstick, black, grey, deep teal/sea green, burgandy, kelly green and chocolate brown. Red and deep pink mixed with black are my most successful colours, so I wear them almost exclusively (today - black pants, black shirt with red collar and cuffs, little red cardigan).
I CANNOT wear blue, any shade. Any shade of blue makes me look like I’m dying. I also can’t wear bright yellow tones. Neutrals make me look washed out, I need mainly strong colours and pastels make me look kind of blah, too. My sister’s a redhead with peachy skin, and blues, pastels and neutrals suit her beautifully.
So what am I? I’m too pink-skinned to be an Autumn, even though many of the colours there would suit me. My skintone seems to be a Summer, although the summer collection of colours definitely wouldn’t suit me (too much blue). I suppose I wear mostly Winter colours.
I don’t even exist in that chart, being neither a blonde nor a brunette.
BUt according to fashion designers, I must be a summer… if you take the black, white, navy, red and burgundy clothing out of my closet (and four of those colors are “in” every summer) I’d be left in my flesh-colored underwear!
The cantor and a number of people in the congregation were wearing pink yesterday for Gaudete Sunday. I think only the former did it on purpose.
I think I am a spring (deep pastels like coral and turquoise?) and I would dress the way were I thinner. Fat as I am I stick to dark navy and black shirts.
