Should I follow my colour analysis or sew the vintage styles I love?

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So im fairly ancient but doesnt seem to be a grans age net so...im supposedly a soft summer colour and a soft classic kibe body type. Im taking early retirement and love to sew but soft kibe clothes are a bit office wear and being a mad old lady I kind of want to sew doen cottage core and 1930 /40, vintage pretty stuff .so do i ignore paid for proffessional advice or what?

Much as a love the colour seasons, the follow on stuff is very stereotyped and IMO very 20th century. Rather conforming for the Patriarchy if you get my drift. Wear what you like. Your season colours may just make you appear a little more well but you aren't bound to them. Do what the heck you like. I would much rather you were happy in your own creations than your edges were smoothed out.

I'd say do what you want, but if you've done a colour analysis, you probably like the idea of going along with that. Don't see it as patriarchal like pp, as I've never heard of men telling women they should follow colour analysis. If that is a way some men tell women to dress, that's news to me.
What makes you happier? Go with that.

i use the colour/style analysis as a guide, but im not bound by it. i found that when i tried to follow the ‘rules’ too closely, it took the enjoyment out of shopping and i would rarely find anything that ticked every single box.

Make and wear what you love as you will radiant happiness if you feel good.

Have you read Gabrielle Arruda?

she breaks down SC and it’s not at all office worker-ish.

as a sewer you might be inspired by her thoughts on fabrics, draping and likes

Why can’t you make retro style clothes that conform with your colour palette?

I think these body types are absolute bullshit, and the colours they recommend for the types - whatever the system - are uniformly foul! I love vintage designs. Ignore the 'professional advice' and choose the styles and colours you like, and the shapes that have always appealed to you and still suit you now.

I'm very similar to you - also soft summer (which seems to have done a good job of pinpointing which colours enhance or drain me) and soft classic kibbe type, the outfit suggestions of which were horrifying as I love a romantic or 60's/70's vintage aesthetic. Interested to see responses!

There’s some - lively - discussion on ‘professional advice’ on this thread - which you might find entertaining anyway:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5577238-but-what-has-actually-influenced-your-wardrobe-shopping-choices?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

Sew and wear what you love. You'll always look best in what makes you happy and confident.

I've never formally had my colours "done". I think I always had a fairly good sense of colour, but learning about colour theory at art college helped me properly understand things like hue, saturation, tone etc & how colours work together.

It's a fascinating subject, rooted in science, & I use it to inform my planting design palettes, as well as it influencing (but absolutely NOT ruling!) what I wear.

What I've since read about colour analysis (re clothes & make-up) sounds pretty sensible to me, & accords with the principles of colour theory. I probably do innately follow what an analysis would, I think, tell me - that I'm a soft autumn with an overlap with warm spring.

I had no idea that consultations often cobble it together with the Kibbe system (& didn't even know what that was until a couple of months ago). And having now read up on the Kibbe system of body-type - what an utter load of sexist tripe!!! And someone who dresses himself & his partner to look like this, will not be someone who influences me!

So, OP - I'd suggest you ignore the Kibbe part & sew the dresses you love!! But maybe take on board the colour analysis - whether some or all of it, depending on how much you agree with the recommendations??