Pattern mixing: Is this right? ETA: added pix & moved to blog, to track thinking re pattern.

Stagiaire Fash

Late add: In a few weeks/couple months, when the returns deadline is approaching, I'll have to try on some of these combos for a new post with pix of me wearing the stuff. What do you think I should try pairing?

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Original post: Breaking this rules has been cool as long i can remember. This is my first attempt at it, following the "new" not-rule guidelines. I can't get the pix quite right, so am taking them as we run errands, slipped off to the bathroom at my kid's dentist for one, haha. Gotta take the shirt along; besides the brutal AC, you never know when a shower might pop up.

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7 years ago

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rachylou

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You've got a hill country / day on the boardwalk thing going on here... I like to make up fashion persona names... do you have a fashion persona you lean towards strongly, fashiontern?

7 years ago

Stagiaire Fash

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Oh, the Hill Country! I escaped out there several times when I lived in Austin, but never could get down there with my son when we lived up in the panhandle. I'd much rather be there now.
I like the names / personas idea, rachylou. As I try on different styles, maybe I should come up with names for each. And eventually, when I don't feel like such an intern anymore, I could let one of them come to the fore as a new user name. Or maybe I'll be an interminable intern, lol.

7 years ago

Emily K

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I'd prefer to see a bit more contrast--both the top and the skirt have rather bitty patterns. But, the skirt has more dramatic color so I feel it washes out the top. If I were doing this, I might try for a black and white stripe top--maybe one inch wide stripes or wider, even? You'd need a plain topper for sure to avoid dipping into crazy-town (IMHO!) The topper you show would be ideal for that.

7 years ago

Stagiaire Fash

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Emily K, of course! I should've thought about the pattern sizes. Thanks for pointing that out.

7 years ago

Emily K

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I don't know, fashiontern, maybe you should take my comment with a grain of salt I think that pattern mixing should be done with a degree of boldness so that people know you are being intentional about it!

7 years ago

Stagiaire Fash

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I just came across this. It explains perfectly why pattern mixing is hard for me. I'm trying to step in at the advanced level, lol. I don't have any of the false plains Angie mentions here--pinstripe, glen plaid, gingham. No polka dots at any scale. There either IS a pattern or nope, nothing. Something to think about next time I go shopping with intent to buy.
https://youlookfab.com/2010/03.....beginners/

7 years ago

Stagiaire Fash

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Barely ten minutes later, I've noticed a few not-so dominant patterns I can pair with others. "Not so dominant" because most of them aren't very big, they have just a couple of other colors, and are very regular. Cool! I want to learn to do this, would much rather not do it by shopping. It also seems that my sensibilities have been sneakily changing. There are a couple of things in this box I'm planning to go through later that just moved closer to tag-clipping because they will mix well, and I seem to have developed a thing for black/white patterns. 1-3 and 7-8 have been in my closet for a long time. 4-6 are acquisitions from the past year. (#6 has already been the topic of a discussion from my mother re whether I could wear brown with it or should stick with basic black.) I took extra shots of a couple things because I realized that there was no way to tell that the rugby stripes on the sweater are much bigger than the blue on blue mini skirt. Also added some finds, so you can see pattern scale of other pieces. The skirt will be a "practice piece", not something I'll wear out much, but might be fun to think through patterns with.

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