To cringe when i see people wearing the 'wrong' colours..?

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Ok it all started a few years ago when I had my colours done, was told I was an Autumn, after hiding in black for years and although I was initially v unhappy with the diagnosis, I eventually accepted it and over time changed my clothes and ditched the black.

I now have a fantastic wardrobe of beautiful colours that really suit my colouring and all match. I often get compliments on what I'm wearing and I know it's just cos I'm wearing the right colours for me.

However, it's meant that I have become a bit of a colour fascist! I have 2 friends with similar colouring to me, pale, freckles, blue/ green eyes and reddish tints in their hair and for ages I have been trying to get them to ditch their black and wear warmer colours to the extent that they call me the fashion police and worry about what they are wearing when they are with me ( in a tongue in cheek way, obviously...)

Also when I see women wearing colours that really don't suit them, I have an overwhelming desire to go up to them and tell them ( obviously I don't, as I don't want a mouthful of abuse and its none of my business..)

But it bugs me! Yesterday I saw a woman with dark hair wearing a black and white jacket, a lime green jumper and cerise lipstick. It was just all wrong!! I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it does....What to do??

Nope, we all look absolutely cracking thanks though.

But then what would I know?

I'm not a scientist, I'm a space cowboy.

Are you called Maurice?

Some people call me that.

I heard some people the other day call you the gangster of love, too.

LOVING this thread.

Incidentally, there are 12 seasons in the Sci-Art colour matching system, not four as there are in Colour Me Beautiful. Four is incredibly restictive. Then there is Zyla, Colour Alliance, Dress Your Truth, Kibbe, it goes on and on and on. It's fascinating, if you're interested in why there are some clothes in your wardrobe just don't feel "right" when you wear them

However, if my colour consultant had come out with that romantic/gamine/ingenue BOLLOCKS, I'd have laughed her out of the room.

Some people want to look their best (I'm a beauty editor, and go to fashion shows and that, sometimes), and some people don't care so much. Neither is wrong, but cringing at people, and trying to convince strangers about this kind of thing is!

Suburban..? Not sure why people think that, seems like common sense to me

Suburban or provincial because anyone who "has their colours done" generally has not developed their own personal taste or judgement.

Today I am wearing a made to measure cotton dress (pink with white polka dots) and a floral cotton scarf (my neck gets cold at my desk). I's very comfortable and cheery, and people can see me coming.

"Suburban or provincial because anyone who "has their colours done" generally has not developed their own personal taste or judgement. "

Not true. They do it a lot in films and on TV, it's surprisingly not as uncommon as you think. You'll notice in a lot of TV series, many of the characters have a very strictly defined way of dressing, or set of colours that they wear, as a form of quick identification.

So 'Dress Your Truth' and 'Zyla' are fascinating, but 'romantic' and 'ingenue' are bollocks.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

If I 'dressed my truth' (arf) most days people would run away screaming.

Today would be an 'I'm on the rag and angry AT THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD' outfit, for example.

OP, in answer to your question: move to France or Italy, you will fit right in with your judginess of other people's looks.

Actually, I do think some of it is bollocks. I can see the sense in colours working, or not working together, because, as I work with makeup artists daily, and stylists, and talk to fashion designers, - I can SEE it working. Seen a colour wheel? Ever looked at a painting? Some colours simply do look better when paired with certain other colours.

But yes, I do think that someone telling you you should dress like a fucking fairy princess every day is bollocks.

Not true. They do it a lot in films and on TV, it's surprisingly not as uncommon as you think. You'll notice in a lot of TV series, many of the characters have a very strictly defined way of dressing, or set of colours that they wear, as a form of quick identification

That's art direction for fiction. (I remember reading a wonderfully interesting article in a film studies magazine/journal about the very specific aesthetic and mood decisions made in dressing Julianne Moore for the wonderful Sirk homage, "Far FRom Heaven." A film worth seeing just for the sumptuous frocks).

Of course, people prefer certain sets of colours, and if one likes clothes, then one often has a sense of what "suits" one. It's the being told, by some formula, and never diverging from those "colours" and not developing one's own taste. May as well just wear M&S all the time. And the women I've seen advertising this sort of service have been very boringly dressed.

That's art direction for fiction.

It is. And it's done by the same people who "do colours". In the 'States, it is, at least.

Right, I'm setting up a colour consultancy.

Who's first?

There is a difference between knowing certain colours work well together and suit you, and paying some bullshitter loads of money to tell you what to wear, like you're a slightly useless child.

But hey, if that's what you want to spend your money on, knock yourself out. I'd rather spend mine on anything else.

People who have their colours done also employ the services of 'life coaches' to tell them to breathe in and out.

Tethers I would like my colours done

I'm setting up a rival consultancy to Tethers.

It's for the more provincial discerning customer.

Well I must say this thread has been a revelation! I'd never even heard of this whole phenomenon before this.

I live in black and grey...it IS slimming and no way makes you look like a block if you do it right. Experiment with texture and layering

As a result, all my clothes match so I can grab things at random and I always look good (well in my opinion anyway).

Question for all you "colours" people...I change my hair colour very frequently...should I be changing my clothes as well?

How do they cope with people with bright pink hair, or shaved, bleached and white dreads?

My eyes are Saxon Green and my skin is Setting Plaster under half an inch of foundation and concealer unless I've been drinking when it's Tallow with a touch of Green Ground.

No problem, SP.

You're a Magnolia.

Fifty quid, please

Id love to have that luxury of knowing what my colours are, but have no idea or money to pay for it.

Perhaps the OP could have a colours thread where we describe ourselves and the OP could tell us what we should be wearing?

"Question for all you "colours" people...I change my hair colour very frequently...should I be changing my clothes as well?

How do they cope with people with bright pink hair, or shaved, bleached and white dreads?"

In a consultation, they actually cover up your hair, so it's not an issue. It's not all based on eye and hair colour, but how colours interact with your skintones.

"Perhaps the OP could have a colours thread where we describe ourselves and the OP could tell us what we should be wearing?"

There's no point even thinking about this, unless you're all willing to post pictures of yourselves wearing different colours.

Here's what colours you should be wearing, Lilleth:

WHATEVER THE CHUFF YOU LIKE.

You can have that one for free :o

" I do think someone telling you to dress like a fucking fairy princess every day is bollocks"

Well of course it is, but the point isn't for everyone to look the same, it's to find our own uniqueness and to work to your strengths, what works for one person won't be right for someone else which actually is what the tyranny of fashion is often about. I would look crap in jeggings for example but great in a maxi dress and vice versa. Once you know what works for YOU then you're free from all that bollocks. Just sayin....

So we're to swap 'the tyranny of fashion' for 'finding our own uniqueness by paying someone else to tell us what to wear '?

Alrighty then.