Do any of you have a signature color?

Are any of you known for always (or almost always) incorporating a certain color into an outfit? Or do you have one color that you gravitate to?

I used to be a sucker for purple. Light purple, dark purple, royal purple, Easter egg purple.... Especially if there was Paisley in purple. I had purple shoes, purple pajamas, purple underwear sets, purple sweaters overflowing my sweater drawers, purple shirts of all styles, purple purple purple. I couldn't stop myself from buying it. But I never could really figure out how to wear it, so I had to force myself to stop.

Now I'm a sucker for blues. At least I can figure out how to wear blues. So amongst all the greys and browns and greys and blacks in my wardrobe, there's quite a lot of blue shades mixed in. (I did have to stop myself from buying all the blue shoes (all of them, seriously, if I saw blue shoes I bought them), because they never worked out and it was a waste of money for me).

Since I'm new here, I thought it would be a neat way to learn more about everybody.

So, what's your signature color? (And yes, I'll accept black as a color for the purposes of this discussion, because that's just some people's comfort zone in clothing)

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Veteran

I'd say mine is purple. It's always well represented in my wardrobe,and I never tire of wearing it.

Tanya

He he, I found myself in your descriptions. Like you, it used to be purple in all the possible shades ( my wallet, Kindle cover and eyeglasses are purple, among gazillion wardrobe things). Then I moved to blue, not because I liked purple any less, but because the stores started to carry less and less purple. Now I finding myself gravitating back to purple again as more of it is showing in the stores again. Thus watch here is sadly sold out, but if it weren't, it would be my next purple acquisition.

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Yes. Yes, I do. Fuchsia.

Brooklyn

I wear burgundy a lot. It would the closest thing I have to a signature colour. It is hard to incorporate it my outfits all year round - it tends to read autumnal/wintery. But I try!

Mine is blue

chewyspaghetti

Mine is olive green. I don't always wear it, but I love it and gravitate toward it for sure. It's been my favorite color since I was a kid.

Alassë

Fern green and chestnut.

Alexandra

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Black and bright red. If I'm not wearing one, then I'm wearing the other. But usually both at the same time.

Sal

Sadly I would say black is the best represented right now.

Over the years I have also had a lot of coral/mango/melon/orange and this colour is the one that gets me the most compliments.

Joy

People who know me would say pearl grey ( the color of my hair). I have a friend whose signature is a purple bag. She has several and only uses that color bag. My sister has a friend who simplifies her closet by only wearing pink, purple and turquoise. Everything coordinates.

catgirl

Citron!

Angie

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You are in good company, Cynthia. Lots of people are fond of all sorts of blues on YLF (and purple for that matter).

My own signature colours in no particular order: tomato red, apple green, citron, all shades of white.

El Cee

Black, Tomato Red and Olive Green seem to be my go-to shades right now. Like Kiwigal/Sally, black is the most represented shade in my current closet -- but I am a New Yorker, so I have an excuse.

Aquamarine

I have to go with burgundy. Love it all year round, but most of my pieces are cold-weather items.

shedev

Mine is black.

Blue, black, and purple.

Barbara Diane

Purple, blues (cobalt, teal, turquoise), red, black. Like Tanya, despite my love for it, for years I had no purple in my wardrobe because it wasn't in the stores. I'm so happy it is back, in the stores and in my wardrobe.

7 years ago

Staysfit

Light teal, light emerald, fuschia, coral, any shade of blue green, grey, white, lighter shades of blue/periwinkle

Style Fan

My signature colours are Autumn colours. I did a post awhile back on this. I am especially fond of chocolate brown, olive green, golden yellow and cognac. I also have a thing for paisley.
When I was little orange or terra cotta was my favourite colour.

unfrumped

I will say burgundy or variations of berry tones- kind of fluid range, with the seasons. Tops of course, but burgundy or Cordovan footwear is something I love, is not as commonly seen and turned out to be a way to add subtle interest to outfits. This works better for me than metallics, even though those are considered neutral.

If I were to pick a signature color that is not a true neutral, it would probably be blush. I love the idea of citron as a signature as it is more noticeable as a statement. Maybe I need to try to find my best citron shade.

Bonnie

Interesting topic, I don't have a signature color but my wardrobe is mostly black, gray, blue, and white. I've been adding a bit of red lately. Black is the color that I use to tie things together but I think I'm the only one who notices it. I always carry a black handbag and wear either black shoes or a black necklace. Limiting colors has made building my wardrobe, basically from scratch, much easier this past year and a half.

Charley

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Yes - the shade is known as "Lindsay Green" among my friends - a bright, vivid green somewhere between lime green and kelly green - something like this:

https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/2271-C

I don't actually wear this colour very often, but for whatever reason, it's MY colour and when someone I know sees something in this colour, I get a photo of it with the caption "Lindsay Green!"

Janet

I'd love to reintroduce some purple into my wardrobe -- I haven't seen much yet at retail, but I'll be keeping an eye out.

My signature colors -- broadly speaking -- are black, blue and green. But cobalt blue and teal are my favorites (represented by my favorite jacket and my trench coat in Finds below). Burgundy is a third -- my favorite outside of the blue-green spectrum.

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rachylou

Is gingham a colour?

deb

Burgundy, here. No matter what time of the year, burgundy, merlot, or some other form is in my closet.

Suz

Tough choice. Blue is the obvious one for me (I am pretty much always wearing some shade of it.) But I wear it so much it is more my neutral than my colour, if you know what I'm saying.

Fuchsia and cranberry red are other contenders, yet I don't actually own too much in those colours at the moment!

Greyscale

I wear almost all black but I'm starting to think lime or citron are becoming signature accents. I have lime eye shadow that I love.

anne

I don't think I exactly have signature colours, but I do have a pretty narrow range. White, black, blue, red and pink. A few orange outliers.

Most compliments on pink and blue.

The colour I love on me and hope to get more of is I think called Robin's Egg blue. Anyway it is the colour in the find below.

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