Not a bad thread Banchan. Now all I need to know is why people of color look better than whitey while wearing garish garb?
if you add a little flare & odd biographical details to your posts you could get a job at the J. Peterman catalogLavender is still going to be on trend because purple is difficult to wear for most people so there's going to be alot of people only willing to venture into muted tones of purple like greyish heather purple or a light lavender purple because these are less of a contrast paired with a neutral like black or grey.
The navy tip still applies with lavender so that you're using purple to compliment blue. Purple is a type of blue (with a bit of red), which is why they work so well together. When paired with blue, purple shows more blue tones but when paired with a neutral like black you see more of the red tones which is why it pops so much when paired with a neutral but seems to disappear when paired with blue. Men usually don't like their clothes to pop too much which is why purple isn't always a comfortable color for them, but blue is and so if you pair the two together, purple just becomes a tone of blue.
Swarthy, olive, tan and dark skin tone has a warm undertone.
Some of white skin tone is cool meaning your undertone is pink (pastel). Pink can look dull if there is too big of a contrast between your undertone (pastel) next to a bright color.
Example of Caucasian with cool undertone (you can see the pink in his skin)
However not all white skin is cool tone.
Some are neutral, swarthy (tan) and olive (beige, yellow, orange, brown). The warmer and deeper your skintone, the less that colors on your body (clothing) will contrast with the tone of your face and wash it out (contrast). Warm skintone blends in with deeper color. However pale skintone is contrasting alot with deeper color. Color looking good on us is about complimenting your skintone.
Example of caucasian with warm swarthy undertone
If you have a swarthy complexion like guy above you will look fine in all kinds of colors and your face will not disappear or look too much of contrast next to really bright bold color.
Easy way to tell your undertone is your veins. if your veins on your underside wrist are normally blue, you are cool undertone, bright colors will contrast your undertone more. If they are green you are neutral to warm, bright colors will blend in with your undertone more.
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my tailor used to say that "white shirt + tan face = confidence" & also that "modern suits are like the little church in the valley: no ballroom." what do you make of his comments?Swarthy, olive, tan and dark skin tone has a warm undertone.
Some of white skin tone is cool meaning your undertone is pink (pastel). Pink can look dull if there is too big of a contrast between your undertone (pastel) next to a bright color.
Example of Caucasian with cool undertone (you can see the pink in his skin)
However not all white skin is cool tone.
Some are neutral, swarthy (tan) and olive (beige, yellow, orange, brown). The warmer and deeper your skintone, the less that colors on your body (clothing) will contrast with the tone of your face and wash it out (contrast). Warm skintone blends in with deeper color. However pale skintone is contrasting alot with deeper color. Color looking good on us is about complimenting your skintone.
Example of caucasian with warm swarthy undertone
If you have a swarthy complexion like guy above you will look fine in all kinds of colors and your face will not disappear or look too much of contrast next to really bright bold color.
Easy way to tell your undertone is your veins. if your veins on your underside wrist are normally blue, you are cool undertone, bright colors will contrast your undertone more. If they are green you are neutral to warm, bright colors will blend in with your undertone more.
Yo this is me.Swarthy, olive, tan and dark skin tone has a warm undertone.
Some of white skin tone is cool meaning your undertone is pink (pastel). Pink can look dull if there is too big of a contrast between your undertone (pastel) next to a bright color.
Example of Caucasian with cool undertone (you can see the pink in his skin)
However not all white skin is cool tone.
Some are neutral, swarthy (tan) and olive (beige, yellow, orange, brown). The warmer and deeper your skintone, the less that colors on your body (clothing) will contrast with the tone of your face and wash it out (contrast). Warm skintone blends in with deeper color. However pale skintone is contrasting alot with deeper color. Color looking good on us is about complimenting your skintone.
Example of caucasian with warm swarthy undertone
If you have a swarthy complexion like guy above you will look fine in all kinds of colors and your face will not disappear or look too much of contrast next to really bright bold color.
Easy way to tell your undertone is your veins. if your veins on your underside wrist are normally blue, you are cool undertone, bright colors will contrast your undertone more. If they are green you are neutral to warm, bright colors will blend in with your undertone more.
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White looks good on everybody. White, grey, black and beige are neutrals so they go well with any undertone.
Suits were not really meant to be off the rack. As it is now mostly an off rack industry, even carrying the base sizes means no floor room to experiment with any kind of fashion. You're limited to dressing up a neutral suit with slightly bolder choices of shirts and ties as these don't take up as much room and ties are one size fits all.
Say ‘NO’ to the boring suits – TOC Fashion Academy
The classic men’s suit is most wanted for corporate and formal wear. Huge amounts of garments are sewn in black, gray and blue and this makes male’s style in offices extremely unattractive and impersonal. The ‘fashion’ element is actually missing.
The main reason for this is that stores offer limited variations of models because of the huge variety of sizes, which manufacturers should produce to fit the different characteristics of the male body. Stores just can’t keep in stock so many models in different colors, patterns, sizes and shapes, because there is a huge number of combinations (the men’s suit is produced in 14 sizes by bust, 6 by waist and 6 by height – totally 503 combinations for every model. And if they should keep in stock 30 models, made of 300 different fabrics and colors, this makes more than 4.5 million combinations).
And that’s why the shops offer just several models, mostly in black, gray and blue, in several dimensions and men wear mainly the same suits, and 90% of them wear suits which don’t fit well.
You're a cool dude Galt.
1 dk nr4m oe manYou're a cool dude Galt.