Warm and cool together?

[Fairyliz]

I have a smart but rather dull work wardrobe so have been looking at blogs for ideas about how to jazz it up.
Quite a lot of blogs seem to team what I call warm and cool colours together eg black clothes with a brown handbag or grey trousers with a beige top. As a cool winter this looks really strange to me, like people have got dressed in the dark. But perhaps I am just old fashioned and this is the latest thing. What do you think?

[LackingCommonSense]

Me too. I particularly like black with brown.

[Littlemoocow]

It does go against the guidance used in colour analysis but that's not something that everyone believes in which is apparent if you read the threads on the subject!

[Littlemoocow]

But the colour analysis is based on 2 seasons being made up of warm colours / shades and the other 2 being made up of cool shades. There might be some that cross both, like navy or a true red, but the principle is there of cool OR warm, no?

[ladeedad]

I suit warm and cool together as I'm on the cool end of Spring. Consultant advised me to mix gold and silver together, for example.