https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:07:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997754 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:34:47 +0000 rachylou 1997754@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I’d go with that. I mean it’s not like I don’t have neutral colours in my closet. I have them all. It’s funny tho how few things I have that are without pattern or embellishment. </p> <p>I’m wearing my patterned grey sweater again right now with fur collar. Looking at past WIWs... my bday, those black stockings have ‘embroidery’. These are neutral in colour, but they’re not neutral items, if you know what I mean.</p> <p>Also, I suspect the Puffy defines my style, rather than fulfilling it. Lol. It’s a functional essential more than anything. I don’t put it on to bring together any outfit... all outfits must fit it. Lol. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997685 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:23:43 +0000 Carla 1997685@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Racheylou - I'm posting here on your essentials thread, but responding to something you posted on my thread. </p> <p>With only your WIW pics to comment on, I would suggest black, grey and camel as possible core neutral colours in your wardrobe. Possibly navy blue as well. Puffers really ARE an essential to your style (and not just a running gag!). I'm not sure what an apron skirt is, but I would add 'A' line skirt. Also, opaque tights. To your essentials list.</p> <p>You do favour a more maximal style of multiple statement pieces, and have a gift for composition like Jessikams. I can see how it would be hard to identify the essentials in your closet.</p> <p>*I don't know what Angie would say to this, but in quilting small prints are sometimes treated as solids, and this adds a lot of interest to a design. Maybe a pair of diamond print skinnies that 'reads' as mostly camel could be put in the essentials pile? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997436 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:01:37 +0000 rachylou 1997436@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha! Yes, signature look, I think I can define more easily.</p> <p>Right now, I’m in my uniform, signature look: solid plain red skinnies, solid dark teal plain top, grey patterned cardigan with fur collar.</p> <p>I suppose colour rules out the skinnies and top as essentials (and fur/pattern rules out the cardigan)... even tho I wear this sort of combination all the time... and the skinnies and top are what I wear to make the cardigan work because they are, to me, ‘plain.’ The only essential is probably... the black slides I’m wearing.</p> <p>I think I’m just not an essentials dresser. I think that has to be it. lol. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997415 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:20:23 +0000 SarahD8 1997415@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachylou, smittie suggested the concept of “signature look” on my essentials thread and I found it SO helpful. You might want to take a look — you can skip all my whining, lol, and just scroll down to her post. I think it might resonate with you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997365 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:39:27 +0000 rachylou 1997365@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok. So...</p> <p>- I own black, but I don’t really wear it that often and not to ‘glue’ any outfit together, except for shoes. I only wear ‘a lot of black’ because my coat is long. I have black tops - like a bunch of Heattech turtle necks - but I sorta tend to wear them as underwear, a thermal layer.<br /> - My coat is black only because all the long patterned Puffies are online scams.<br /> - I definitely own loud patterned pants and leggings, wear them often. I own a lot of patterned tops that I wear with the patterned bottoms. I glue those together with bright solid colour.<br /> - White is definitely a tool... but no, no sweaters at the bakery.<br /> - I’ve discovered I don’t wear totally plain jumpers at all. Even my solid white sweaters, all of them have something a little funky going on.</p> <p>Or maybe my problem is, I don’t wear essentials very much. Maybe only my shoes and my coat, by default, are essentials. But I feel I definitely have a uniform and a formula to make things go together... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997350 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 17:28:24 +0000 Cardiff girl 1997350@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I m impressed that you have 7orange mini skirts.These must qualify as an essential surely. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997284 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:08:39 +0000 Angie 1997284@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Rachy, </b>what <b>Suz</b> said. I think you're intuitively using black and white as a tool.&nbsp;</p> <p>You're almost there with this list! You mention some colours - like a lot of black, which you wear well - and need to do the same for the:</p> <ul> <li>puffies, skinnies, jeggings, ruffle hem skirts, mini skirt aprons</li> </ul> <br />Are the tops with interesting sleeves perhaps more of a statement piece?</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997263 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:04:33 +0000 LaPed 1997263@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I wonder if your bright orange skirt-aprons are basics? Never mind that they are highly visible; you wear one every day as part of your personal work uniform, and it serves a very specific function. You could think of it as the base on which your outfit rests. </p> <p>Setting the skirts aside, I'm hearing that the rest of the outfit consists of chunky black shoes, stretchy skinny-fit bottoms in autumn colours, with a white sweater and a puffy up top. Is it really all white sweaters though? Wearing white sweaters at a bakery job sounds high-maintenance to me. What about folksy plaid and floral blouses? Do you consider those statements because they're patterned? I associate them with your core style in a way I don't with white sweaters... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997262 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:02:14 +0000 Bijou 1997262@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachy I agree with you that some colours will substitute in as essentials. For example, I consider this top as part of my essential summer knits, I wanted it in white, but they had sold out of it. I bought this colour as a white substitute as it is light and works with my jeans, skirts and jackets that I would have worn with the white top. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997256 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:37:36 +0000 Ginger 1997256@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachy, maybe the color distinction is only necessary if you have both statement items/colors AND essential items/colors in the same category.&nbsp;</p> <p>Remember that neutrals are YOUR neutrals and statement pieces are YOUR statement pieces. If you use muted autumn tones as "glue" to go with more statement-y pieces, then those are your neutrals. (Like navy. Navy is never a statement for me, it's always a neutral. But for some on YLF, navy is the statement color.)</p> <p>So if you wear muted autumn tone leggings to complete an outfit with statement pieces, those are your essentials. But if you also wear wild and crazy colored and printed leggings, those are probably statements and not essentials. "Muted autumn tone leggings" is a perfectly sufficient set of essentials to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997226 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:55:06 +0000 Helena 1997226@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachy, I think muted colors can stand in for neutrals? ... I know blush, navy and olive do, so why not your muted autumn tones? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997222 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:50:28 +0000 Jaime 1997222@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm, interesting. So does the color always have to be specific and the form is not enough? I think of my hoop earring collection as an essential - but I have green, blue, pink, silver and gold. But I consider pointed black shoes an essential - whether they are boots in the winter or open flats in the summer. An unsolved mystery! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997192 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:23:56 +0000 Anonymous 1997192@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm, since you mentioned 3 types of black shoes maybe they're the main essential in otherwise colorful outfits?<br /> Orange is tricky. I have an orange cardi like that, and think of it as a pseudo neutral-fuctioning like a brighter medium brown. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997186 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:00:37 +0000 rachylou 1997186@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It’s hard to wrap my head around. I don’t depend on any one or even two colours to make other things work. I mix and match colour with great abandon and really only think about whether a thing has pattern or not. My mini skirts are all bright orange - but I’ve got seven, one for every day of the week. You could take away my tan pants and I’d just wear the red or the green or something. Or vice versa.</p> <p>Maybe some would see the orange skirts as a frequently used statement. But really the way I use them is as glue... they’re the ‘rest’ and the ‘bridge’ for other pieces. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997151 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:52:18 +0000 Anonymous 1997151@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Black is easy to find and buy. Any colors that could be a statement are not essentials. White is ok. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997149 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:47:23 +0000 rachylou 1997149@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, I think that’s what I mean. Yes to neutrals but no specific neutral ... any will do... except maybe black and navy.</p> <p>I wear black often... but mostly because my long puffy is black. And I don’t generally wear black pants unless I’m going to see a lawyer, lol. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997134 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:22:41 +0000 Suz 1997134@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmmm. You mean you have no specific neutrals but you use a lot of them?&nbsp;</p> <p>You do wear black quite a bit, though, right? And dark green. And some white or off-white/ cream as well?&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997117 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:17:34 +0000 taylor 1997117@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachy , it sounds like neutral items ARE your wardrobe essentials.<br /> Same is true for me . </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/essentials-2019-colour-specifics#post-1997115 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:12:43 +0000 rachylou 1997115@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok. So I listed these as my essentials:</p> <p>-Puffies of course<br /> -White jumpers<br /> -Jumpers with interesting sleeves<br /> -Skinnies/jeggings<br /> -Mini skirt aprons<br /> -Ruffle hem skirts<br /> -Black boots<br /> -Black sneakers<br /> -Black clogs</p> <p>Then I asked Angie if I needed to be specific about colour, and Angie said Yes.</p> <p>..,And this is proving to be a bit of a challenge because I don’t necessarily think of neutral colour as a tool. That is, I use solid colour as a neutral glue. I don’t seem to really need any particular colour as a glue, although I really like white sweaters.</p> <p>But I don’t suppose my jeggings and ruffle hem wrap skirts are mostly muted autumnal colours - tan, forest green, dark red, denim blue, grey.</p> <p>I don’t know what I’m saying here. Can I have muted autumn colour as a colour? </p>