The winter colours thread part 2...

[QueenCadbury]

Are you a winter colouring? If so come and join us for chat about clothes/make up following on from here.

I am so over-excited! Just back from a personal shopper appt at Top Shop. When I've got a bit more time I'll try and link to what I've bought. I've got:

a beautiful soft cotton long sleeve shirt in navy
A charcoal jumper with black mesh inserts
A royal purple jumper with black lace
A pair of black Jamie jeans
A burgundy loose shift dress
black pleather and denim pencil skirt
An dark emerald tube skirt
a HUGE silver metal necklace- way out of my comfort zone but looks great

Everything looks fab and EVERYTHING works together. Admittedly I haven't gone for vibrant colours but every one has at least one star at 100% and I can add the brighter ones through accessories.

This is the first time i've ever been pleased by clothes shopping. Happy, happy HAPPY!

How exciting - links please when you're ready!

Boden dresses have arrived - will be keeping the vanessa one and sending the other one back. Very flattering and the material is part silk but even so its still machine washable.

Humm, can't see everything online. It's amazing how different the colours are on screen compared to real life too. the links look a bit dull but everything matched my swatches.

a beautiful soft cotton long sleeve shirt in navy - much brighter in real life
charcoal jumper with black mesh inserts
A pair of black Jamie jeans
A burgundy loose shift dress, colour looks odd on screen but is true in the flesh
black pleather and denim pencil skirt
A dark emerald tube skirt

These look great! Love how they style their clothes - esp the charcoal jumper. You must be so pleased

Still REALLY overexcited! Spent two hours putting outfits together, was gutted when I had to stop to go and pick up DC!

Thanks for the cream blusher recs, am tempted by pot rouge looking at reviews. Will be checking out your links later Betty! I had a personal shop with Topshop a three years ago and it was brilliant, it got me into so many things I wouldn't have worn otherwise (dresses and playsuitsplaysuits mainly).

Fab shopping betty. And I love how excited you are.

I especially love the emerald skirt. How will you wear it? I'm really hoping to get some styling tips for skirts at my style day as I'm useless.

carrie74 i am catching up with the thread and you sound like me. I have been a HOC winter (think jewel because of ** colours but was YEARS ago) and more recently CMB cool, clear.

alookinthemirror.com/seasonal-colour-analysis-clear-winter-clear-cool/

Also an inverted triangle - an insight which is really helping now i understand it

Thanks Queen, spent ten minutes just stroking my new clothes - tragic!

The emerald skirt is quite lovely, I'm very 'hippy' and i thought jersey would make me look like a truck but it was actually flattering.

It looks really good with the navy shirt as it fits slightly at the waist but skims the hips. I'm not sure what tights to go with, maybe some really thick navy numbers and then i def need a bit of a heel or i look a bit stumpy.

When is your style day? I'm thinking about doing one too but not 100% it will be worth it - i'm scared they will tell me i need to be floaty ruffles and chiffon! :)

Oh Queen, just seen you've decided to do the style day! Let me know how it goes...I'm still tempted :)

Standingonlego I know this isn't a winter question, so apologies to all, what do you find works/doesn't work on you as an inverted triangle? I'm starting to wonder whether the reason cardis don't seem to work on me is because they widen my top half - not sure if they do or not...?

The Hush red cardi arrived today and it's a proper bright red (slightly cool-leaning if anything). I do love it but haven't tried it on yet. Might swap it for the bright red v neck jumper they do if I don't like it on me.

PS Betty your charcoal mesh jumper is tempting me...

Just been looking at Betty's charcoal jumper and found this purple lace back one. I can't tell whether it's going to be wintery enough but I love it. Looks like it could be a match for damson? Have ordered it along with the charcoal one...neither are going to be warm but they're pretty

Here you go Eliz inverted triangle style advice

That is a gorgeous jumper Elizabeth, let us know if it's a good match. I love the bottle colour version too but I don't think it's one of our colours - booo.

www.boden.co.uk/en-GB/Womens-Tunics-Kaftans/WH575/Womens-Easy-Scoop-Tunic-Dress.html

I've just taken delivery of this in red and navy and the Alexa dress in Lapis which I hope is a winter blue. I think I will keep both as I'm trying to liven up my day wardrobe and not simply wear my usual clothes but with a winter coloured jumper. What do you think? I would probably wear both with think navy tights and boots or shoe boots.

Betty I saw the 'bottle' jumper too - it's gorgeous, but yes it's hard to tell if it's a clear forest green or if it's a more autumny peacock/blue green. They only have one size left anyway.

Pufflemum the lapis dress looks fab, it looks a good match for electric blue in the pictures. I'm less sure about the red and navy one - with such a busy print, you sometimes get a muted effect that doesn't work that well on winters (only going by my experience though!) Do you feel like you light up in it or are you eyes mainly drawn to the print rather than your face?

Great dresses, esp the blue one. If the other one is too busy, trying teaming it with a plain cardigan/tights. I love the vintage/retro feel of some of their tunics and dresses

Gorgeous dress pufflemum. Love the vertical lines on the bodice, really gorgeous dress.

Hello, over here for small inverted triangle diversion, thank you for the link MissScatterbrain not seen that before. It has helped me understand why some things work and others don't for me, some of it I put down to being petite (I am 5'2"ish) but now I think it is about shape.

Good things - A-line dresses, skater style dresses, turning up my skinnies to show some ankle (good with ballet slippers & pumps) as the turn-up widens me a bit there and stops me looking too carrot shaped (I knew this worked, but had NO idea why - instantly looks better), straight clean lines, contrast down the middle of an outfit, funky /statement shoes, no fussy necklines, volume on bottom half, necklaces to be weighted in middle (like single pendant) to draw eye inwards rather than rounded style, detail at ip level e.g. side ties to tops. tailoring and fitted clothes.

Bad things - fussiness on shoulders (e.g epallettes, cap sleeves, shoulder pads, detail on bust area), extra volume on top (e.g. layering), scarves (always looked daft on me), shapeless clothes (the leggings / tunic type combo has to be well fitted, i do better with tights, casual frock & boots)

Specifically on cardis, I struggle with these, they have to be really neat rather than waterfally.

That is a bit of a brain dump! I picked out this little number from Matalan (I was there randomly which waiting for car repair) that fits all the "rules" and I have been hoovering up compliments like crazy at work . It looks 5x more than the 20 quid i splashed out

www.matalan.co.uk/womens/shop-by-category/dresses/s2531588/monochrome-flippy-dress

Do any of you have any good blogs from winters? I realise I look at blogs of people who are totally different colouring to me, different shape and have lifestyles different to me.

I need some good classic winter bloggers.

I am never going to wear biscuit and beige layered sweaters with skinny jeans and ankle boots. No no no.

I don't know of any although I suspect that Kat from Doesmybumlook40 is a sultry winter - unfortunately, she gets it wrong with some of her colours.

I find putting together a pinterest board helpful in learning what I like and how to out an outfit together. I try and follow a few boards to pick up ideas.

The dark haired one on this blog (it's run by two women)

Flashes of style. She often wears winter colours - lots of red and acid yellow. I like a lot of her outfits.

Norwegian blogger. She looks wintery to me and has done great posts on finding you style, gamine style and pixie cuts. She has great hair.

None of these identify themselves as winters as far as I know, and they don't always stick to winter colours, but they're nice blogs.

Standingonlego thanks for the inverted triangle info, loads of it rings true for me. Am returning the red Hush cardi as it's too boxy. I often go for volume on the bottom like skater dresses or tulip skirts. I like jersey pencil skirts atm but they need detail like texture or ruching.

I bought the black/navy stripe printed Gap skirt yesterday - 30% off in store! It's lovely and nowhere near as short as it looks on the model. Can't think what colours it would go with apart from black and navy...

Hey all you fellow winters. I found a lobelia cardigan in a charity shop yesterday. Today I am wearing it with jeans, navy thermals layered under a white tee, and a bright pink scarf. It looks fab. The lippie helps loads though - a little pinky lipstick really makes it all work.

It is a million miles away from my old colours but I look healthy and pretty.

I also found some midnight blue velvet trousers in a charity shop which are perfect for Christmas - especially as they have an elasticated waist. Mmm....post feast slobbing around......

I am lusting after this coat. Do you think it's a winter red?