Brown leather accessories, camel coats. Help me?

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I have had a "never wear brown" rule for decades. I always wore black shoes, belts, etc. But now that I'm older, black washes me out. It's not a huge deal for shoes, but I have been wearing more bright pinks, blues and greens that really suit me and my shoes and bags have been in the same colours.

But I have the suspicion that I look a tiny bit silly wearing lots of turquoise, rose, etc. I want to look a bit more sophisticated.

I have ordered some brown ankle boots, a brown bag, and a camel Trench coat. I am not entirely sure if the colour of the coat really suits me, but it's not a jumper, it's a coat, and I will be able to put a scarf at my neck that will flatter me.

One reason I always avoided brown things was it looks so hard to match things. Cognac, tan, saddle, etc... Wouldn't you have to have a bunch of shoes and bags to go with one another? Or do people have a preferred shade of brown they stick with? How important is it that the leathers match exactly or closely?

Maybe I'm complete Kyle on the wrong track and ought to be leaning into navy as a neutral?

Those who don't suit black (I'm very light blond with a fair complexion), what are your neutrals?

I have no idea where "Kyle" came from!

I don't suit camel, I know it suits goldeny brown Jennifer Anniston types. I'm a clear/ bright winter with very dark hair, pale pink undertoned skin, blue eyes and my neutrals are charcoal, white and navy. Obviously I can still wear camel away from my face, but next to my face I look ill or dead. I did actually just buy a long camelish wool coat from Ted Baker but it's quite pinky, almost blush, so in my eyes it has that sophistication camel suggests without making me look dug- up. Like you, I feel limited sometimes that my "approved" palette is jewel colours!

I think brown looks wonderful on blondes and I dont think it's important to match the tones. maybe a berry, teal or orange scarf?

I am a brown skinned woman so I think it just makes me look brown all over! Though I have been looking at Seema on AJLT and wondering how she does it as she is a similar skin tone to me.

I'm a pale ashy blonde with cool skin so look shite in black as well.
I go with navy or grey usually but have found some cooler browns and sort of oatmeal colours that I like. The secret (for me) is to avoid anything with yellow/orange undertones unless I want to look ill! I tend to look better in soft blues and pinks but find it a bit limiting!

I look good in warm colours - like rust or tomato red lipstick pops on me (though I can't actually wear it because it's just too much.) So I think I would fair badly with oatmeal.

I used to have dyed black hair, which looked good until it suddenly didn't. I think my natural hair color is a dirty golden blonde going grey. I have it bleached very light but I don't tone it platinum. It's more like flax or cornsilk. I would like to see what a honey or caramel blonde looked like on me but I'd need to play with wigs for that.

Contrast is important. So, a darker shade like navy or purple would look good with your pale hair. Brown is tricky. It's not that its horrible but matching up your browns is hard.

I have sand coloured hair so I don't look great in camel either like poster upthread. Not enough contrast. It's white that washes me out, not black.
If I wear black, You can see where my hair starts and ends. And I wear a lot of make up to achieve a ''natural'' look! So I never look washed out in black imo.
Black shoes seem to be back in.