Malik Stitchers ملك : Dressing Color Combinations

Collection of colors for dressing combination for our Customers

Classic colour combinations look stylish on everyone, no matter the season. Neutral colours worn together create looks that are timeless and flattering, while providing plenty of flexibility in your wardrobe. Neutral colours include black, navy, white, brown, grey and khaki.Spring is the right time to lighten your wardrobe with pastel combinations such as pink, light blue and lavender.

So, you have been told that dressing well is an art. Style is in born, instinctive and not everybody can get it right. But is it really true or just a way to say that I won’t let the secret out? Or maybe people who dress well just do not know how to pin point the rules that they follow?

It could be either, but Wink n Pout Stylists want to give the power to YOU! We say dressing up well is not an art but simply a math. Now don’t be scared of the word, but we only mean fashion is inclusive of certain rules and calculations that make it work, and yes the number of variables, too have to be considered. The people who are “born” with it simply pick the rules up consciously or sub-consciously from their surroundings. But for those who didn’t welcome our series, by the end of which, we promise you would feel you too can put together great outfits. But remember, we are only trying to touch upon the basics that will help you out, if we went deep into each one… it would become mind boggling.

How to Choose Color Combinations for Clothes

The color wheel is the answer and knowing its basics is not only for artists. It really is for everyone, and once you get to know it, it is not so difficult either. It is not a tool reserved for stylists and designers, but for you to use as well.

Primary, secondary and tertiary colors

Before we begin, you must know there are many theories in color and black and white are considered a color or not a color according to the theory you are reading. So leave them out of the whole thing and know that in fashion these are considered more like neutrals.

Blue, red and yellow are the primary colors that cannot be made by mixing any other colors. When you mix either two of them you get a new color called the secondary color. For example, orange is made by mixing yellow and red in equal parts.

Now, when you mix a secondary and a primary color, you start getting different hues according to the amount you mix in. So one, yellow-orange can be brighter by having more yellow in it and the other could be darker by having more orange in it. That said and understood let’s move on to the basic rules that you can use to mix these colors together in your outfit.

Rules of mixing colors

These are some rules that guide and tell you as to which colors will look good together.

Analogous Colors: On the principle of wearing colors from the same family, analogous colors are in the groups of three, choose any hue and the color on its right and left together make analogous colors. It is a harmonious combination and is pretty simple to get right.

Complimentary colors: Any two colors lying diagonally opposite to each other in the color wheel are complimentary colors. These create high a very high contrast and if not done right, can make you look like you arrived out of a color book. But that should not be the reason to abandon mixing complimentary colors. We will tell you how to pull them off, in a while in this article.

Split complimentary colors: The high-contrast potential of the former is toned down here. What you do is combine the hues to the right or left of the diagonally opposite complimentary color

Triad Colors: These are the colors that are equally spaced out from each other on the color wheel. If you drew through them, you would get an equilateral triangle. Again, in their most saturated form, you might have a hard time combining them. But if you pick any two of these, it would be easier

Tints and shades: You can combine the tints and shades of the same hues to get a great harmonious outfit. The values should be well apart for this one to work wonders. If you do not know what that means, read below.

Expand Your Color Choices

Once, you get these basic rules right, it is time to know more. As you might have noticed, the color wheels above are pretty basic and only show a few high saturation colors. But when you go out to shop, there are so many colors available.

That is why, we show you now the expanded color wheel. For a particular hue (color) here, you can find its various tints (Hue + white), shades (Hue + black) and tones (Hue + grey). Not only that, as we mentioned before, by varying the amount of primary color added to the secondary, you can get so many different tertiary colors. So here are your brights, pastels and everything else.

Now the same rules we explained above apply to the expanded color wheel. But now your choices expand as – You can combine different values with each other too. Say you chose a value 2 green and paired it with a complimentary value 7 red – not so contrasting anymore right?

That’s the magic, most times you would end up not mixing the colors on the same value when you are looking for a harmonious combo. You would match a tint with a shade or less saturated hue and a more saturated (brighter) one. Same value combinations generally spell bold.

►So try our following dressing styles on the bases of these color criteria as mentioned above

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