https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:31:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2077067 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 06:26:59 +0000 TanyaBurr 2077067@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look great A big Thumbs Up!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076941 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:32:16 +0000 Sal 2076941@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My son owns two pairs of pants! But he has a school uniform so his needs are minimal. I think of teenage boys as the true minimalists!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076936 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:27:01 +0000 JAileen 2076936@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I do like seeing my father’s things. &nbsp;He had a wool jacket with knit sleeves that is well over 50 years old. &nbsp;When my son wears it, it makes me think of my father. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076883 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:44:00 +0000 Chris987 2076883@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think it looks great on him, but clearly as you've stated there is a whole lot more going on with his decision-making process than just the color :-)&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076879 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:38:31 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2076879@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>JAileen, is there any nostalgia in your son's use of earlier generations' clothing, or is it simply pragmatic? I've begun thinking how nice my son would look in my dad's wool coat. I don't know if he still wears it or not.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076857 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:18:48 +0000 JAileen 2076857@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like the color on him. &nbsp;My son is grown, employed and supporting himself. He has hardly any clothes. &nbsp;They are either from the thrift store, or discards from his father. &nbsp;He even has a few things that had been my father’s, who died 15 years ago. &nbsp;When he visits us for a week, he brings one pair of pants and maybe three shirts. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076821 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:15:57 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2076821@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Shevia, Lisbeth, and Jenni!</p> <p>In general, our issue is that he needs to buy *more* clothes. I’m the one who does the laundry, so I’m much more bothered by the fact that he only owns 5 pairs of pants than he is. I try to get him to wear each pair twice before washing, but seeing as they are sweatpants, they generally need a whirl through the machine after that. </p> <p>I don’t know how far back Octoberfest up north has roots. This sure felt like a manufactured little thing to get tourists’ money. But whenever Alexanderplatz has one of these faux fests, they bring in crepe and churro food trucks so, yum. It’s two short subway stops or a decent walk from where we live, so we get our carbs &amp; fat. But really, the dark capital at the center of Metropolis (the movie) is not a natural for the chicken dance. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076794 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:34:14 +0000 Jenni NZ 2076794@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think it looks great on him and suits his skin tone beautifully. As a mother I understand your frustration. I only paid for clothes until they were 18 and had just left school. It became harder in that last couple of years for tastes to align and I refused to pay more than certain limits also. They all dress themselves fine now in their 20s!<br /> Oktoberfest I thought was a German thing rather than just a Munich thing but am overall ignorant regarding such. We have been known to celebrate such a theme even in NZ! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076787 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:12:32 +0000 Liesbeth 2076787@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Beautiful! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076762 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 02:37:25 +0000 Jaime 2076762@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok it's not Munich but it is not that bad is it? Your son looks great! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076694 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:39:25 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2076694@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>RL, this is the bigger one </p> </p> <p>Thanks Sal! He's been worried about his skin lately--nice to hear someone other than his mom still thinks he looks alright. </p> <p></p> <p>Thanks Nuance and Firecracker! You know we're always doing goofy things. </p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076693 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:35:48 +0000 rachylou 2076693@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Is this the smaller size in the pic? Still looks big to me - slouchy and American, not keeping with what I feel is his Euro style. The colour is great tho. I’d regift it, before it gets really worn, lol. Cousin Xmas gift anyone? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076681 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:45:40 +0000 Sal 2076681@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like it on him and sympathise with buying it and it not being worn.&nbsp; He is a good looking lad. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076679 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:44:15 +0000 nuancedream 2076679@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yay from me too! Color looks great!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076676 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:40:39 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 2076676@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Looks great! Funny expression and explanation of its context, too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076675 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:40:23 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2076675@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sarah, I generally do accommodate and believe that's the best way to teach them to take care of themselves as they become adults. I don't eat things I don't like, and if I don't think I'll like what they're serving at a party, then I eat in advance. He can learn to do the same. I think he was in a moment of "expansion", one of those periods when he is able to reach out and try new things, when we got the sweater, and now that it's over, not all of those things are winners. The reason I'm so pissy about this one is that he had chances to rethink this and insisted it was what he wanted. He wasn't wearing it, could've reflected and realized he didn't want it, refused to do so until too late. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076672 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:26:10 +0000 SarahD8 2076672@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think the sweater looks really nice on him!</p> <p>I really empathize with the frustration of dealing with unpredictably shifting sensory sensitivities (with my kid, they mostly have to do with food).</p> <p>But, how many times have we bought items that we thought we liked the color of but then didn't in practice? Or talked ourselves into something that turned out to be too scratchy? I guess we have to forgive our kids' shopping mistakes as we would like ours to be forgiven, lol. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076669 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:06:47 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2076669@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><div>Thank you Joy, Angie, Suntiger, Toronto, notsaf, nemo, kathie, Katerina and Cardiff for your encouragement. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Toronto, yes, this is my son. He's growing and changing fast these days. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Kathie and Katerina, wise question! He did like it when he got it. He wore it for a couple hours this evening, then decided (correctly) that it was a size too big. I asked a couple times if he wanted the exact same thing in a smaller size--I wasn't sure about the color, and I was stunned he'd wear something so scratchy. OMG, what a stupid question, lol! So I exchanged it. Now I can't convince him to wear it, partially because it's too scratchy. I ordered up a dozen long-sleeved black T-shirts so we could find just the right mock T/high crew neck to go under it. None of them are right, of course. Now he claims that the color is the problem. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>He has tons of sensitivities to light, sounds, tastes, and fabrics. All of his clothing is knit. He only wears sweatpants and shorts (though he could wear this with the one pair of jeans he owns--black jeans that his girlfriend for a month last year bought with him) and T-shirts, cotton sweaters, and sweatshirts from H&amp;M and Hollister. This sweater is a big departure in color, fabric, and being from Uniqlo. (Otherwise he only has socks and undershirts from there). Ordinarily, I wouldn't push him into something, but dammit, he asked for the sweater, and then asked for it again. <br /></div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076637 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:31:41 +0000 Cardiff girl 2076637@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It looks fine to me and I recognise that expression!I have a teenager too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076633 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:22:21 +0000 Katerina 2076633@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It looks great on him! What does he think? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076567 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:15:14 +0000 Kathie 2076567@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wonderful! Does he like it? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076564 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:02:39 +0000 nemosmom 2076564@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lovely! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076562 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:56:32 +0000 notsaf 2076562@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Looks great! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076559 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:49:42 +0000 Helena 2076559@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love it too, although I find young people can pull off just about any colour with little penalty! Is this your DS? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076558 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:49:15 +0000 Anonymous 2076558@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yay from me too! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076553 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:41:38 +0000 Angie 2076553@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thumbs up.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076552 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:38:20 +0000 Anonymous 2076552@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love this color on him. When I wear it, I need my darkest shade of tinted moisturizer. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-color-sweater-for-this-color-skin#post-2076546 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:20:16 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2076546@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What do you think? We usually wear similar colors, because our skin has similar undertones. This is a color I wouldn’t wear. I’m not sure about it for him—undertones aside, we obviously have different pigmentation. </p> <p>The facial expression, btw, is supposed to be saying how dumb it is to have Oktoberfest in Berlin. </p>