How CAN YOU DEVELOP COLOR SENSE?
You’ll learn a lot just from reading this book, but right now, there are two things you can do to bring out your color sense. Doing them will help you understand what you will read later.
The first thing to do is to trust your own instincts about what looks good on you. Each person ‘s sense of color is highly personal, unique to her.
If you follow your friends’ advice on colors too closely, you may end up wearing colt ors that look great on your friends but that don’t necessarily flatter you. For example, your mother may look good in red because she’s got pale white skin and bru- nette hair.
You, with brunette hair and olive skin, may not look so hot in the shade of red that becomes her. Similarly, your best friend may look stunning in peacock blue, but it doesn’t work the same magic on you.
Nonetheless, that won’t stop your mother and your friend from occasionally trying to sell you on their colors. And even though you may frequently want advice from other people about colors and clothes, you alone are ultimately the best judge of which colors work best for you. It is up to you to understand which colors flatter you and to choose your clothes from among those colors.
You’ll also have to trust your instincts over those of the world of fashion. Color is an impor- tant part of this world. Fashion editors wield a great deal of influence over what women wear, and now that you’re a teen, you’ll be subject to their influence, too.
Every spring and fall you’ll be tempted by the new bouquet of colors that the fashion editors have decided is right for ev- eryone this year. The only problem is, saying they’re right doesn’t make them right. Not every color that’s in at the moment will look good on you. You have to learn to pick and choose what’s right for
