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What are your favorite color combos?

Tanya

Veteran

I though it might be interesting /inspiring if we posted what our favorite color combinations are.

Here are mine:

1. Navy, lavender and cream
2. Purple and teal ( and charcoal)
3. Baby blue and grey
4. Black, white and red
5. Brown and teal/turquoise
6. Pink and any neutral ( navy, brown, grey, charcoal), especially with a touch of cream
7. Olive green and hot pink

Looking forward to learning about yours!

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23 replies

Latest reply was from Inge

Julia

Interesting topic! Here are mine:

1. Black, white and one of the prime colors
2. Ink blue, white and lime green
3. Brown, white and yellow/teal

No wonder my style was "simple chic".

mirah

cool thread Tanya..bet we could get a lot new ideas from everyone..i already got one from your last (olive green and pink) here are mine

1. black and white (I wear this at least twice a week : also added with yellow, red ,cobalt blue, pine green and fuschia thrown in as a third color

2. navy blue and lemon yellow

3. citron and red,

4.orange and hot pink

5. sky blue and brown

6. white with : orange, brown, cobalt blue

7.chocolate brown with cobalt blue, yellow, teal

8. light grey and red

9.cream and red

10.black with anything (esp with turquoise and lime green).. very predictable but a favorite nevertheless

aisha1984

This is a great idea for a thread! Ok so I am slowly easing into colour but nonetheless, here are my favorite combinations so far!

1. Emerald green and gold
2. Orange and Hot Pink (thanks Mirah! I absolutely LOVE this combination now!)
3. Khaki and Hot Pink
4. Khaki and Orange
5. White, Navy and Yellow
6. Blue, Orange and White
7. Yellow and Brown
8. Red, White and Blue (classic but still a goody!)
9. Brown and baby blue or turqouise

and I'm going to have to try Tanya's of olive green and pink!

mirah

you are welcome aisha! But I am sure I only reminded you of this combo

Anonymous

So many fun ideas!
My favorites this summer are:
1. black and white with lime green
2. chocolate with white or med. pink
3. ink and acid green or coral
4. gray/black with periwinkle blue
5. clove brown with lavender and light gold shade of yellow

Ana

(website)

Veteran

Okay, so some of these combinations come from mixing fabrics for quilts, but I think they work equally as well for clothing:

1. Olive green, cream, and gold
2. Navy and any bright color--lime, yellow, white, or coral are my favorites
3. Turquoise, white, and gold
4. White and silver or gold
5. Olive green, bright orange and hot pink
6. Brown, cream and Coral (for fall) and black, white and coral (for
spring/summer)
7. Olive green, citron, red, and white
8. Black, white, and yellow
9. Red, white, blue, and animal print
10. Cream or white, black and red
11. Brown and fuschia
12. Orange and white
13. Emerald green and gold (like Aisha!)
14. Citron, black and silver
15. Peach, cream, and white

Nicole

Veteran

White and Black has to be my all time favorite. I used to wear black bottoms with white tops, but now I wear white bottoms with black tops. I think it works so much better with my inverted triangle shape.

Purple and Soft Green
Coral and Turquois
Brown and White
Orange and White
Really, any color and White--I'm on a big white kick
Tan and Black
Olive Green and lime green
Bright Blue and Black
Yellow and Black and White (buzz buzz)
Hot Pink and Black

Angie

(website)

Fashion Stylist

A delicious topic! How fab that there are few similarities between the members. Signature colour combos are in vogue.

o Black & white (or cream) with a TRUE strong bright (yellow, red, cobalt, turquoise or green)
o Black & white (or cream)
o Black & cream & toffee brown
o Clashing strong brights like: yellow & cobalt, green & turquoise, red & orange, red & fuchsia , yellow & lime, lime & turquoise (as you can clearly see from the aesthetics of this site)
o Strong brights with white
o Ink blue & citron & white
o Olive green & cream

Sihaya

Veteran

The one I wear most often - red, white, and black. Followed by yellow (usually bright sunshine yellow or citron) and red. Blue and yellow. Blue and pink. Green and brown. Purple and black. Yellow and silvery gray. Fuschia and orange. Blue and yellow. Lime green, purple and white.

nancy

Have a new kelly green cardigan from B. Rep. what colors do you all suggest for the item under it?

Nicole

Veteran

It depends on what you plan to wear for bottoms.

If you wear dark neutral bottoms, like black, you could keep it simple with a white cami, or be a little more daring with colors like yellow, orange, citron. Just keep the intensity the same as the kelly green.

If you want to wear it with white bottoms, then how about navy blue cami, or preppy pink, or black.

nancy

Thanks...I want to use another color and didn't think how imp. the intensity of the contrasting color should be.

Becky

Veteran

This is a tough one. Here are a few favorites.

*Olive green, fuschia, navy, and white
*Black, white, and red
*Fuschia and bright yellow
*Turquoise, fuschia, and white
*Lavender and navy

Sarah

(website)

Veteran

I love purple, so I try to find new ways to wear it.
*violet purple top, white pants, orange accessory
*lavendar with navy or charcoal

*brown and white
*light grey and bright yellow
*light grey with an orange red

aisha1984

Nancy, kelly green looks absolutely fabulous with navy...that might be something to try out, or even a gold (i.e. a gold coloured tank, with white trousers would look fab!)

shiny

Veteran

Current favs:

- Black & white or cream
- Black, white and red
- Red and black
- Brown and white
- Black and khaki with cream accessories
- Fuschia and silver grey
- Olive green and white
- Cerise (from AT site and recently highlighted in an Angie blog.... kind of a rhubarb...) with white or khaki
- Zinnia (basically what AT calls orange....also highlighted in Angie's blog!) with white or khaki
- Inky blue with lime green
- Cream with lime green
- Layering of various shades of green -or- blue.... like navy with turquoise, or sage with lime green
- Brown and green
- White with turqoise

... basically I gravitate towards reds, greens and blues, with a shot of pink and orange thrown in. But no yellow. Just doesn't flatter me.

Fall color choices are a tad different... I don't wear as many true reds but instead prefer mauves, wines, and magentas (i.e., richer deeper more purply shades of red), and if I'm not wearing jeans I like charcoal gray or brown pants and skirts. On my fall list is a pair of cream wool slacks.

Anonymous

My basic colors are black and white and I wear these together or with any of my fav brights: red, all blues, turquoise, fuschia, lime green. Currently experimenting with blue and white (thanks Angie!)

I also like brown & black together

gray and yellow (this is my current fav combo!)

gray and any of my brights

beige and any of my brights

I tend to feel comfortable mixing my favorite brights with a neutral. The only way I will wear two brights is with my jewelry. For example: khaki pants/turquoise tank and lime green necklace. But some days I feel bold and will layer two different shades of the same color. I feel quite sassy on those days

Anonymous

Wow. Great topic! I got so many great ideas.

My favorites are:

-fuschia or baby pink with silver grey
-white and blue (anything from sky blue to navy)
-turquoise with: pink (either baby pink or fuschia, or even somewhere in between - i love pink!), coral, white, black, silver grey, yellow
-orange and pink (like a lot of you) - reminds me of sherbert!

This was really hard to keep short. I see a lot of you have black and white, and while this is a combination I use, I have really been staying away from it lately. Maybe because it's summer and I'm having so much fun with color.

Jennell

These color combos are a wonderful idea! They have really given me some ideas. I hope everyone will do the same for fall/Winter colors. I have such a difficult time putting outfits together. I read YLF everyday for advise, encouragement and fun!
Thanks everyone!!!!

Patience

Veteran

I've had to think hard about this:

white and most shades of blue
black and most shades of blue
navy and citron
navy and silver
white and two bold colors
chocolate and cream (for fall)

I like blue I guess

Inge

(website)

Another great thread, I'm getting tons of inspiration from this.

OK, for me it's not just about colour combinations, but also about how they are in proportion to each other. Meaning: what's the dominant colour in an outfit, what's the accent colour etc.
I look horrible in a bright red sweater or cardi for example, but can pull that exact same colour red off worn as a cami underneath a darker cardi or underneath a black V-neck empire-waist dress (with a small flower pattern, lots of tiny red, orange and white flowers).
So I'm going to list 'outfits' with colours that have worked for me, instead of just colour combinations.

- navy or ink blue cardi, raspberry cami and sage green scarf
- chocolate brown sleeveless empire-waist dress and sage green pashmina (worn as a wrap)
- teal V-neck faux-wrap sweater and a blue cami (a cool blue that resembles the blue in the middle, last row here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....n_blue.svg)
- eggplant blouse (a 'pull-on', i.e. no buttons but with a deep V-neck) and blue (same as above) cami
- eggplant blouse, mauve slip-over and charcoal pin-striped trousers
- eggplant blouse, mauve slip-over and tweedy brown wide-legged trousers
- navy or ink blue V-neck faux-wrap sweater and daffodil cami
- chocolate brown V-neck faux-wrap sweater and daffodil cami
- bright blue button-down shirt and charcoal pin-striped trousers (works with other greys too)
- black sweater with asymmetrical collar and a tweedy blue fuller type skirt (blue resembling the blue on the right in the top row: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....n_blue.svg), black hose and black boots

I really like a completely black outfit as well, but not everybody can pull that off. Especially something classy and simple like black lightweight wool pants, straight-legged, with a feminine button-down shirt, très French to me.

(and you wouldn't say so after reading the above, but my favourite colour is green actually;-)

Tanya

Veteran

Thanks for all the responses so far ladies! I am getting so inspired from all of your lovely combos. Inge, I love when you describe full outfits, I can totally picture them in my head. I might even copy some if you don't mind

Inge

(website)

Of course not Tanya, I plan on putting a few things I have read here into practice myself.