Choose Your Color

It's said that the right color can make you look younger, slimmer and brighter. It has something to do with your body shape, skin, hair and eye, and of course you should also choose your dressing color according the occasion.

Color and Season from Style Makeover HQ

When trying to understand the color in dressing, we should consider its culture, psychology and its change with season.

For culture, it means to understanding the connotations that a color carries from culture to culture and for different socia groups can clarify(Jay Calderin, 2009). It's important cause personal preference of color often connects to their cultural background.

As for psychology, it's that when we see a color, it might bring certain feeling to us. Blue may bring in the feeling of a clear sky and make you feel soothing. Red might be hot and stimulate. You can find more about Color Psychology by clicking this.

Changing seasons mean the past of time and switching of the occasions. There aren't any certain rules about what color to choose from, cause fashion is always developing. But we can offer some basic tips.

Spring: Besides of some basic color you are always wearing, may be this time, your want to add some warm, bright and clear color for yourself. Do remember to try navy, which is springtime classic.

Summer: In this hot time, maybe everyone want to try some cool color, which make your dressing breezy. But for beach occasion, you could also taste the sherbet, mangoes and candy-colored which may you smile.

Autumn: It's a time when the sun hangs lower and casts longer shadows, and brings us the color of nature. It's easy to wear black, brown and grey now, but do warm yourself up with wine reds, forest greens, cadet blues accessories.

Winter: It's really a free time, you can calm yourself down with dark colors, or just feel the heat with a red dress. Just try something exiting in the pale snowing days.

Reference:
1. Kim Johnson Gross and Jeff Stone(1998) What Should I Wear? London, Thames and Hudson Ltd.
2. Jay Calderin(2009) Form Fit Fashion. United States of America, Rockport Publishers, Inc.
3. Simon Traves-Spencer and Zarida Zaman(2008) The Fashion Designer's Directory of Shape and Form. London, Quarto Publishing plc.
4. Style Makeover HQ(n.d.) Do You Know Your Color? [Online] Available from: http://www.style-makeover-hq.com/seasonal-color-analysis.html [Accessed 21st Nov. 2011]