https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:07:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black/page/2#post-2235282 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 13:54:24 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2235282@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Shevia, high five on naming colors after things in the natural world. Besides herbs and spices, I’d go for fruits, plants in general, and elements. Otoh, I want color names to refer to the actual color of the things they’re taken from. It drives me nuts when “cobalt” is used for a shade that’s nothing like the element. Turquoise, the stone, comes in a range of colors, so I’m ok with people using that word for something different than the color I think of first, but cobalt, afaik, comes in one and only one very specific color. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black/page/2#post-2235279 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 13:48:18 +0000 Angie 2235279@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like the look as is! Cumin flavoured olives with liquorice for dessert :)</p> <p>I think the outfit would look good with a white or cream top too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black/page/2#post-2235197 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 02:04:25 +0000 Jaime 2235197@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cumin! All tricky colors should be named after herbs and spices. Also fabulous outfit and you are pulling off all my difficult colors (whatever you call them) beautifully. Agree that some white or cream would be fun to try also. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black/page/2#post-2235190 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 01:46:59 +0000 rachylou 2235190@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like the outfit. It’s woodsy. I see your point about the colour of the top… I’m gonna go with ‘greeny gold’ </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black/page/2#post-2235119 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 15:48:34 +0000 CarolS 2235119@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you Star, Kate and Sally! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2235012 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 08:49:45 +0000 Star (Lise) 2235012@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look edgy, which is just up my street :)&nbsp; I like LisaP's idea of cobalt blue with camo.&nbsp; I like navy with it but will have to try cobalt.&nbsp; Wearing a cobalt turtleneck today, and wore camo's yesterday </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234993 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 07:39:41 +0000 Kate 2234993@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Altho the top does read mustard on my monitor, in the photo with the scarf and shoes, I see the difference. That's a color I would call a burnished golden green. Whatever you want to call it, I think the combo in your original photo is perfect as is. I'd wear it in a hot minute. You look fab! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234990 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 07:32:05 +0000 Sally 2234990@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I actually like the colour of the shirt with olive because I suppose the puffer and joggers kind of blend in other colours too and the scarf picks up similar colours in the joggers.&nbsp; It all looks very edgy with the boots and casually cool.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234965 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 03:42:17 +0000 CarolS 2234965@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks, Brooklyn. You could be right that it's a bit of the "still adjusting to the change of weather" thing. I've also been craving juicy colour lately and really don't have any in my closet yet. I have at lease one patterned scarf I think I would like with this look. Will give that a try.</p> <p>Thank you, Sloper! I would love to add some orange to my closet and I would happily be your orange twin. As to adding texture, I'd run away with Chris's olive fisherman sweater in a heartbeat. I do have an oversized olive sweater I can wear with it tho.&nbsp;</p> <p>Thank you, Zaeobi! The joggers are really nothing fancy -- I picked them up from an off price retailer.&nbsp;</p> <p>LOL, Tanya. I clearly couldn't keep calling it olive! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234961 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 02:57:43 +0000 Zaeobi 2234961@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lovely outfit! Where are the camo joggers from? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234959 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 02:26:13 +0000 Tanya 2234959@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>CarolS, I love your sense of humor! I LOLed at the updated title of this post. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234958 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 02:17:28 +0000 Sloper 2234958@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like this outfit, and I like the color of the top - it's warm and works with olive.</p> <p>But the other suggestions above would be fun to try - ivory, pink, lilac, even a floral?&nbsp; A knit with a texture? Or be my crazy twin and do orange </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234953 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 01:40:35 +0000 Brooklyn 2234953@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It’s a greenish brown. Less yellow than mustard. I like “cumin”.</p> <p>I like the outfit as is. A patterned scarf could help to lighten things up. </p> <p>Sometimes in Autumn the darker colours from head to toe feel heavy after summer. And it’s about getting used to them as the weather cools. Maybe that’s an issue here? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234939 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:42:50 +0000 CarolS 2234939@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOL. It just might! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234937 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:26:07 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2234937@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I bet the color that shall not be named would go with lilac well too—straight across the color wheel. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234936 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:23:59 +0000 CarolS 2234936@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maybe the colour is CUMIN? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234933 Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:17:51 +0000 CarolS 2234933@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yeah, I might defer to dark/murky ochre. It's definitely an oddball colour -- which is kind of why I bought it. But now the trick is to figure out how to work with it!!&nbsp;</p> <p>So, whatever the heck we call the colour, odds are good I might not rush to pair it with these pants again. I have other options that will be better. But, it was fun to experiment and do some crowdsourcing on just what that colour might be!! I'm still convinced I have a paint sample somewhere that is called OLIVE that reads that colour. Well, not as convinced as I was.&nbsp;</p> <p>Lisa, I don't wear cobalt, but that's an interesting idea with camo. I do and would wear pink with it!&nbsp;</p> <p>Thanks, Firecracker!&nbsp;</p> <p>KKards, I might have been happier in some ways with a black top -- although I was happy to get some wear from that funny coloured top and bring a bit of lightness to the whole thing. Next time! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234932 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 23:48:59 +0000 Jenni NZ 2234932@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>KKards idea?- dark ochre? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234931 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 23:46:51 +0000 CarolS 2234931@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Alright y'all -- here's why I can't quite call that top 'mustard'. At right is a mustard strip from a cognac/cream/mustard scarf. At left my cognac sneakers. Centre is the weird coloured top. What shall we call it?!?! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234927 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 23:43:49 +0000 Jenni NZ 2234927@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like the style of the outfit in general, not so keen on the colour of that top with it, my first thought was mustard? Also on phone so colour may not look true. The black puffer looks great! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234921 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 23:03:14 +0000 kkards 2234921@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmmm, wonder if the top is like a dark ochre color, which is like a mustard with olive undertones…<br />i like the outfit you’ve wore, and i hear you on trying to lighten up the outfit, but I’d also try to the other way, go dark with a black sweater and than the olive scarf would pop. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234913 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:42:31 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 2234913@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like the outfit as it is, and I do think the top lightens it up. Super cute look! But I also like Angie's idea that SF brings up, which would be to add a shade of white, if you wanted more lightness. Maybe in the top and/or scarf. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234904 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:30:49 +0000 Anonymous 2234904@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I’m seeing a mustard top , not olive but I’m on my phone so there is that . I personally like pink with olive when I’m feeling too blah about an olive and black outfit - and I’m not exactly a pink person . It makes me feel a little more feminine…..but that’s my issue , not yours , lol. Cobalt is nice with camo too - if you’re into that colour . You’re making me want to get out my camo joggers which I haven’t worn in ages . </p> <p>I </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234899 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:15:57 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2234899@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Googling “chartreuse” brings up so many shades and tones that I think of it kind of like “pink” which is a thousand different colors. But you &amp; many others here know this stuff better than I do. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234896 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:07:05 +0000 CarolS 2234896@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yeah it is quite a bit more green thank my cognac shoes. But the same intensity of colour, so they could work together in the right tonal look. It's an oddball. I don't know if it's really chartreuse either. I think of that as being brighter. No? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234894 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:54:38 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2234894@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Chartreuse?<br /> The yellow tinge does come through—part of why I suggested cognac shoes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234893 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:51:03 +0000 CarolS 2234893@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Carla, it's a hard colour to quantify -- it is greener than mustard or cognac, so I equated it to some very yellow olives in the Benjamin Moore fan deck. Although now that I actually compare the top to those paint chips, they are still much more green. So... I don't know what to call the colour now!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234889 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:41:25 +0000 Carla 2234889@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The top reads as ‘mustard’ on my monitor, but I quite like the combination you’ve put together here. &nbsp;No need to style it differently.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234883 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:11:12 +0000 CarolS 2234883@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tanya -- thanks. I agree cream would work well. Your comment about the fit of the joggers makes me giggle a bit. I washed them for the first time the other day hoping they would shrink a bit as I felt they were a bit sloppy -- and it appears they altered themselves just the right amount. They feel much better now!</p> <p>Mirjana -- thank you so much!</p> <p>Katerina, your kind words make me blush given how much I admire YOUR style.&nbsp;</p> <p>Thank you, SF -- Light coloured footwear is on my wish list for this very reason...&nbsp;</p> <p>Thanks, RobinF -- weather could turn any day now.... :-(</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mixed-olives-with-black#post-2234878 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:44:25 +0000 RobinF 2234878@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like this as is although I'm not sure the color is showing up true on my screen. Love the pants, might as well keep wearing them as long as the weather cooperates! Fun boots too.</p>