What are Your Favourite Colours for Work Outfits?

What are your favourite colours to put on to work proper now? Do you think about your self an all-black, all-beige, or “pops of colour” type of particular person (or one thing else)? What do you assume are the perfect colours for work outfits?

We’ve talked prior to now about tips on how to domesticate fashion, which prints fit your private fashion, and tips on how to look nice for work day-after-day — however we haven’t actually talked about this primary subject of your favourite / the perfect colours for work outfits.

(Ah: way back we did speak concerning the greatest colours of sneakers for work outfits – I’d love to listen to your take at the moment!)

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My $.02 on the Finest Colours for Work Outfits

I simply noticed a humorous Tweet that mentioned one thing like “it’s time to place away my black summer season garments and convey out my black fall garments,” and I believed YES as a result of, as famous beforehand, I put on plenty of black.

(I’ve tried to shift to navy extra as I’ve gotten older as a result of it’s a rather more flattering colour, however navies are so onerous to match… so I are inclined to put on navy tops with denim bottoms or colourful bottoms, particularly in summer season.)

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Then I began eager about how “pops of colour” had been so prevalent some time in the past, with tons of contrasting and complementary colours. Clearly, I nonetheless counsel these sorts of pairings so much once we’re speaking about Swimsuit of the Week or whatnot… however for some time it’s been considerably absent from plenty of “what to put on to work” commentary. I’ve been noticing extra colours recently — there have been tons extra colourful fits this 12 months, and a few of the stylings on procuring web sites have positively introduced again colour in an enormous method.

However beigy neutrals have been so common recently – it feels prefer it’s been a number of years now the place the one factor some bloggers put on is totally different variations of the identical beige outfit. I feel it was Amy Poehler who mentioned: good for you, however not for me — my pale pores and skin appears to be like a bit lifeless subsequent to beige, and I’m method too susceptible to spills to wera such a light-weight colour. I do suppose it’s higher for the display than all black as a result of lighter colours present texture and particulars higher, although, so I attempt to undertake the overall shapes and texture mixing the place doable, however in black.

Within the background of all this, after all, has been the return of “colour seasons” as a well-liked method to pick what to put on. (Elizabeth even reviewed her experiences with two on-line colour evaluation companies!)

I suppose I do that to a sure extent — jewel tones look higher on me, and it saves me time when procuring on-line to have the ability to routinely slim the alternatives to my measurement and solely the colours black, blue, purple, and crimson. It additionally does permit me to create one thing of a capsule wardrobe the place every little thing, in principle, matches.

In any occasion: I’m curious, readers, whether or not you affiliate your self with dressing in colour in any of those methods. Do you put on all black, on a regular basis? Do you keep on with your “colour season” for garments? Or do you like the minimal all beige look? Do the entire appears to be like strike you as presently common, or do any really feel like they’re from yesteryear?