Black is the most slimming colour so you’re told? I just wanna sit on my Porch and watch the cows shirt Now I’ve talked about that before here, but if you missed the memo, the reason why people think black is the most slimming is the simple logic: If light colours advance and make you look larger and dark colours recede so should make you look smaller. – what’s the darkest colour? Well black. But… if you look at another of the properties of colours which is the spectrum of intensity, if bright colours are advancing (larger) and muted colours more receding (slimming) what’s black? It’s BRIGHT – that’s right – as soon as you soften black it becomes grey (no longer black) and so (cue Beethoven’s 5th Symphony …da na na na naaaaaaa) black is ADVANCING and makes itself more apparent. Also, colours have visual weight – white is the lightest, and black the darkest – and so black feels HEAVY (particularly on someone who has light colouring it’s really noticeable). Black weighs you down, it can also make you appear shorter when wearing it on your top half and a lighter colour on your bottom half. So if muted colours are more slimming, then a darker muted colour will be more slimming that black, ergo… Does black go with everything? It’s a cool, deep and bright colour – so it goes well with other colours with those properties, but it really doesn’t look good with warm colours and muted colours, other colours look way better with those, it’s just that most people have gotten so used to seeing black with everything they don’t see how it clashes. Get my tips here on how to stop buying and wearing black when it’s not flattering for you. When you’re wearing colours that aren’t in harmony with your own colouring you’ll look more washed out, pale, tired and even jaundiced, as I discovered when I was 16 and bought myself a mustard yellow jumper (sweater). Every time I wore it people would ask me with concerned looks on their faces “are you feeling OK?” to which I always replied that I was find, and wondered to myself why they asked me that. When I learned about colours and how that mustard yellow colour was not in harmony with my cool colouring, it suddenly made sense and that jumper was donated to a home where it would be flattering to the wearer. If you’re ever in a store and the sales assistant says “you just need a bright lippy with that” then it’s a great indication that the colour is wearing you and less than flattering on you and should be avoided. These are the colours inherent in you – they are in your skin, your lips, your eyes, your hair and when you repeat those colours in your clothes and jewellery, you really do look amazing. And very rarely is black a signature colour! When doing a colour analysis one of the steps is to find from the generic palette of around 50 colours, the 15 that are your personal signature colours.

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As a rule though, I just wanna sit on my Porch and watch the cows shirt you can expect business casual to include dress shirts as a cornerstone of your Monday-Friday looks, but even they are changing with the times. One brand spearheading a unique repositioning of the dress shirt is Collars & Co., the New York-based outfit that has deftly combined the structured collar of the traditional dress shirt with a fitted polo shirt body. This results in an incredibly comfortable alternative to the dress shirt, but without losing any of the visible formality of the structured collar. Comfort in the office has never looked so good. Slacks or chinos in colours such as navy, grey, khaki, or black are safe choices, especially if they are gently tapered. While not always necessary, a blazer or sports coat can elevate a business-casual look, especially if you opt for interesting fabrications such as tweed or a knitted style, both of which are inherently more casual than the suit jacket. But in place of tailoring, the quarter-zip sweater has perfect business-casual appeal since you can wear a collar beneath it in a preppy style or layer it over a tee for a more laid-back office vibe. You can probably ditch your Oxfords in place of loafers or Derbies, but some offices are perfectly OK with lo-fi minimalist sneakers, too. The dress polo shirt is a relatively new phenomenon but it has already gained traction thanks to the rise of business casual. There are no better purveyors of it than Collars & Co, who have been able to master the genre by crafting their versions in an extra comfortable, 4-way stretch fabric. The semi-spread collar styles are perfect for the office and come in a huge variety of colours and styles, from plain tones to ginghams and checks.