https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:53:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1999188 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:28:20 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1999188@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Speaking of arboreal fashion...I have a Halloween costume planned for one of these years. A bright green dress with horizontal ribs 1" apart all the way up/down. The ribs are perfect for clipping sparkly things on. Tall brown boots and my hair in a bun on top of my head so it fits into the spiraling base of a Christmas tree topper! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1999183 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:01:53 +0000 Jules 1999183@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>In addition to being tonal, all the pieces are reading as neutral to me. I do also occasionally wear tonal olive/kale (slightly greener than olive) columns of colour and I’m happy with that too, although I will more often choose not to wear olive footwear but rather brown or burgundy if feeling like some colour. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1999181 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:53:44 +0000 karen13 1999181@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I wouldn’t have thought olive and forest work together but yo have proved me wrong. I like it! Happy accident.. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1999163 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:03:58 +0000 April 1999163@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You are funny!&nbsp; :)</p> <p>I love greens but I too would hesitate to mix a bunch of them (that says more about my approach to colors than it does about whether this works.) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1999161 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:50:31 +0000 Anonymous 1999161@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Nope, not seeing pickle either, especially with your hair! I like the sound of blueberry and fruit salad outfits too </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1999155 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:40:07 +0000 Anonymous 1999155@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh my god, your hair! &nbsp;Stunning . And I love a good martini, so olive away . &nbsp;Looks great to me. &nbsp;Suz with her blueberry outfit - so great too .....I feel like a lump of black coal &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1999102 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:35:39 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1999102@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz, love the way you've got the blues! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1999036 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 03:22:28 +0000 Jaime 1999036@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Nothing wrong with pickles! But you don't look like one at all, looks great to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1999035 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 03:20:22 +0000 Brooklyn 1999035@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thumbs up from me too. You can never ever wear too much green. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998995 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:23:13 +0000 Alicewonderland 1998995@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Haha, I like it! I think you look great. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998992 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:10:41 +0000 Suz 1998992@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pickles, bruises, fruit salads...I love them all, at least in sartorial form.&nbsp;</p> <p>I didn't snap a photo but here's what I just wore for my walk,&nbsp;<b>Nemosmom</b>. I am not sure if it qualifies as "bruise" or blueberry, but either way.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998986 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:33:39 +0000 Angie 1998986@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pickles are delicious and so is green with your gorgeous red hair, <b>nemosmom</b>. You look fab!</p> <p><b>La Ped</b>, I hereby crown you Queen Bruise </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998967 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:40:35 +0000 Anonymous 1998967@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No pickle to be seen. Olive looks wonderful on you. Why not wear it?<br /> The different shades of green make a cohesive outfit that is still interesting. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998965 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:31:08 +0000 nemosmom 1998965@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p> <div>You guys are ALL too sweet, thank you. <br /></div><div><br /><b>LaPed</b> - yes! My grandmother and her 'wise words' have stuck around long after she passed... I DID wear an ivory pullover sweater to coordinate with the cream and black fleece jacket, so I *should* have been in green only from the waist down, but it was raining and cold so I grabbed the waterproof coat as I dashed out. The best laid plans, I guess... <br />I too would LOVE to read your thoughts on building intentional colour complements. </p> <p><b>SarahD8</b> - I always forget about a bag! I'm not much of a bag fan, preferring deep or interior jacket pockets for valuables. I normally would have grabbed a patterned scarf or something to break up the green, but I don't wear a scarf with the intended fluffy jacket and so, I dashed out without one.</p> <p><b>FashIntern</b> - you will be a lovely fruit salad!</p> </div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998962 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:03:43 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1998962@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pahaha! You look great. I just refreshed (without posting) my browser after writing what would've been another long post agonizing over the difficulties of building a mix &amp; tonally matching wardrobe, and here you are, doing it by mistake! But I don't want to look like a pickle. I want to look like fruit salad. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998959 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:01:35 +0000 Anonymous 1998959@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't see a pickle. &nbsp;I think you look fabulous. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998958 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:53:17 +0000 rachylou 1998958@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don’t know: I think Pickle may be the New Thing. Totally awesome. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998955 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:37:17 +0000 SarahD8 1998955@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another vote for lovely tonal color combination, not pickle. And oh wow, yes, this ensemble sets off your auburn hair beautifully! (It's actually as if your hair becomes the pop of contrast.)</p> <p>If the head-to-toe green bothers you, what about seeking out an everyday bag in a color that contrasts but harmonizes with your outerwear? That's what I did with my teal cross-body: with my black coat, it looks more intentional than navy and less blah/blobby than black would; it harmonizes with my periwinkle puffer; and it forms a bright but fun combination with my tomato-red summer rain trench. Maybe cognac or rust for you?&nbsp;</p> <p><b>La Ped</b>, I'd LOVE to read your thoughts on small/intentional color complements. I've found myself unwilling to limit my palette as severely as some folks here do, but my intuition is that color complements don't necessarily need to be extensive (at least not in every case) for me to feel like a color has a "presence" in my wardrobe. That's as far as I've gotten though so I'd love to hear what you've worked out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998953 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:30:24 +0000 Sal 1998953@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't see a pickle........</p> <p>You look great, I love olive green and forest green- neither are my best colours sadly. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998952 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:26:04 +0000 LaPed 1998952@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think there's enough variation between the three pieces that it does not come off as a pickle costume. And green is so perfect with red hair, I can understand having a wide variety of greens in your closet.&nbsp;</p> <p>If I'm not careful, I end up in head-to-toe black and navy and I hear my dear grandmother's voice in the back of my head saying, "You look like a bruise!" I think the solution is building very intentional little colour complements so that you always have an accent colour at the ready. I keep meaning to write a post about that but haven't had time.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998951 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:24:08 +0000 Helena 1998951@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tonal column of color. Fab! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998948 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:19:04 +0000 The Cat 1998948@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look great! And what a gorgeous hair colour--it's really emphasized by the greens! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998947 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:18:25 +0000 Katerina 1998947@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha, ha, you are hilarious :-))<br /> I think it is a nice tonal green outfit though, why not? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998945 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:18:00 +0000 Gretchen 1998945@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Or, perfectly camoflauged for a walk in the woods?</p> <p>I love all the green together! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/the-downside-of-limiting-my-palette#post-1998940 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:11:57 +0000 nemosmom 1998940@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>...is not realizing you are dressed like a pickle until AFTER you return home....</p> <p>I had to change coats (from a black and cream patterned one to my olive parka) last minute this morning. I didn’t think to stop and look at it as a whole until I got home and went to hang my coat. </p> <p>Green coat+forest green cords+olive and forest Vans=pickle</p> <p>Oops. </p>