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

[Scarletohello]

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??

[MrsCampbellBlack]

Seriously Bridget - who nowadays chooses avocado baths and artex?

I drive a ford, but I don't care about cars.

Do have a nice handbag though In a lovely colour

[tethersend]

Um... I'd love an avocado suite.

Chocolate brown would be even better

Trust me, coloured suites are coming BACK.

[BridgetBidet]

It was even in Bridget Jones, her mother trying to force her to get her 'colours done' in her suburban semi with her Boxing Day turkey curry nights. It is. And I view it in the same way I view net curtains and over cleanliness. Common.

[RussiansOnTheSpree]

Bridget's mother was not suburban, she lived in Grafton Underwood. She was provincial.

[getagoldtoof]

You're completely right. If all the bashers got their colours done they'd be the same as you - pissed off ar first and then eternally grateful.

[Lomaamina]

OP you lost me at 'scientific', I'm afraid.

Greythorne I laughed out loud at OP - have you discovered the science of homeopathy? Think you're going to love it. I'm afraid that this 'colourme' (probably colorme originally) nonsense is twaddle for the gullible. At least it's not as dangerous as homeopathy, other than to the wallet.

[nooka]

I had the style consultation/conversation too, and neither my friend or I were told to look like regional newsreaders. It was mostly talking about what overall designs suited our body shapes, what sort of fabrics we liked and the kind of style we wanted to portray/felt comfortable with. A bit of low key personality type assessment really. Same sort of categories as the OP, so I chose natural and dramatic and she chose gamine I think.

It was interesting as on the surface we look fairly similar: tall, thin, dark with pale skin, but the style and colours that we feel great in are very different. I like strong bright but relatively dark colours, natural fabrics with a soft sort of flow and 'big' designs. I don't like a lots of contrast, fussy prints (flowers etc) and I don't look good with round cuts. She likes sharp suits and strong contrast (so black and white with lime green and cerise might well look fantastic on her). Our colour palettes overlap, but not by very much.

For both of us we were at a 'reinvent yourself' stage in life so it was really helpful. I was brought up by a mother that felt thinking about what you wore was terribly vain. I wore mostly hand me downs as a child and I was a goth as a teenager so I never really played with colours/styles. My friend had just left a commune!

[nooka]

Oh, and I was at that point a total city girl, and I come from what most people would consider a posh family (hunting fishing shooting on one side, generations of academia on the other). My friend is American though :)

[RussiansOnTheSpree]

Hunting shooting and fishing? Sorry love but that's basically the definition of provincial. You don't get much bloodsports in the city.

Those of you touting this sort of stuff need to take a step back and take a long hard look at what you're saying, you really do. 'A sort of low key personality type assessment' REALLY? You do know that this is how cults reel people in? Never been stopped in the street by the scientologists offering free personality assessments?

A bit of tax deductable wardrobe advice for people in the public eye who are liable to be ripped to shreds in glossy magazines or the DM week after week is sensible (although even then - look at the hold Rachel Zoe had on her clients at one time. Not entirely healthy on several levels). But for normal human beings? If you work in an industry or profession where it matters the will be a dress code and personel will have rules. If you don't, you should under no circumstances be paying someone to put you in a straitjacket of their making that most people will be laughing at!

[nooka]

I'm not touting anything, merely explaining. I don't think any cult is going to do very well recruiting with a single morning of advice in some old lady's living room. The personality assessment was just a questionnaire FGS. Given that my friend was an escape from a cult I think I have a fairly good idea of what that really entails.

Really there is no need to be so unpleasant. So I and a few others here wanted a bit of advice as to how we could buy clothes that suited us better. Big deal! In real life no one has even sniggered, and I had a lot of compliments at work on the clothes I bought subsequently (and yes there was a dress code, but 'smart business wear' is a fairly meaningless phrase really).

[SeasonofTheWitch]

I know I'm late to this but I haven't been on MN for ages and this thread has reminded me of all the things I love and hate about it. From colour analysis to chuff munching, F&B and the usual class-oneupmanship.

And the artful juxtaposition of "Who the fuck cares about looking good?" with "No-one who does this shit could possibly look stylish."

I know all's well in the world

fwiw, I know lots of women who have had their 'style and colours done' and they all look stylish and individual, not a tropical jellyfish amongst them, but the main thing I notice is how much happier women feel about their own shape/quirks/size/colouring afterwards.

It's not for everyone but it really isn't about being told to wear just 3 awful colours. The Bridget Jones connotations are as out of date as artex and avocado bathrooms.

OP - shall we do all this again in S&B now?