Spring Palettes
From our recent discussion about what we’ll be wearing this spring, what jumped out to me this year is an emphasis on color. Normally, since my personal coloring is fairly subtle, I gravitate toward low intensity color combinations: two neutrals combined with a soft color or monochromatic. However, right this minute I am craving a bit more color; perhaps an analogous color scheme such as orange sherbet and candy pink or navy and turquoise.
This set of colors comes via wear palettes, who distills the palettes pictured in The Sartorialist’s photography. By viewing these two in bloglines I am able to view just the palettes first, without the outfit picture, which I love! If I were to build a spring wardrobe without pink, this could be it.
Vildy shares her spring wardrobe inspiration:
I’m thinking my spring wardrobe is centered around my new this year plaid coat (jacket length to me), vanilla background with black plaid plus threads of raspberry, copen blue, yellowish olive.
Karen also recently shared her palette she began working on this past fall:
brown and peacock or dusty turqoise blue, tan and olive. I also have a black/white/red/cream/gray theme going. But blue//brown/green are my signature colors, I know just the right shades that are wow for me and it is a time saver to pass over colors that I know aren’t going to work well for me.
Note the wisdom expressed in her final statement.
Further Spring 2008 color inspiration:
- Pantone Fashion Color Report Spring 2008 pdf
- Boden Hot Picks - Women’s
- Got a bright idea? Shop your shade and find colorful looks at gap.com
Well, I’m inspired! Perhaps I’ll take the camera into the “lab” and play. In the meantime, have you any inspired color combinations on your mind for this spring?
I’m with Karen–I use her palette (brown and peacock blue, tan and olive) year-round. I have a short-sleeved, princess-seamed swirly dress with a paisley pattern in exactly these colors. I wore it with an olive velvet jacket and tall brown boots to church last Sunday. In the spring, I’ll wear it with an aqua cardigan or olive/blue jacquard shawl. In the summer–by itself with sandals! It’s about the perfect dress, in my mind. (Coldwater Creek–secondhand, $12 early last year. Yippee!)
I also love citrus colors in the spring. Soon to move into rotation: a vivid yellow crewneck sweater that I love to wear with jeans, esp. with just a bit of a sherbert orange, lime green, or grapefruit pink t-shirt peeking out at the neck.
Sheri, that dress sounds awesome! Agreed, about the perfect dress.
ooohh, I want that dress, too! I have a similar swirly dress in mostly blues with a bit of olive and plum. Hope it still fits or will fit.
I love the sound of that brown, peacock, tan and olive palette.
The palette you showed at the top of the post is very similar to what I’m wearing. I was searching around for a palette to emerge out of my closet and hanging on the back of the door was my now favorite bathrobe - a man’s plaid soft robe from Walmart, vanilla, dark camel, some brown, bit of strong mid blue. So that’s a lot of what I’m wearing though just the right shade of blue is hard for me to scare up.
I think you could throw some bitter orange or rich salmon orange into that palette.
I think you
The colours in my wardrobe have been evolving rapidly over the past year or so… It all started when, in my 2nd year of college I decided to veer in a more sophisticated direction wardrobe-wise. One of the ways I did this was to start phasing the colour pink out of my wardrobe, replacing it mostly with neutrals and the occasional dash of red. Recently, I’ve been favouring mauve when I feel like pastels, or deep, saturated purples. For spring I’ve been eyeing saturated shades of aqua, with cranberry, mauve, and mint as accents or in prints. A lot of my clothing purchases as of late have been basics in neutral colours so I’m looking forward to adding some fun colours into the mix:)
I’ve been loving envisioning everyone’s palettes. And Rebecca, thank you for the link to the Pantone Spring designer colors. What fun to look at.
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I’ve been doing some shopping and browing and these are the colors I’m feeling for spring and summer…. butter yellow, gold, leafy greens, navy, white, black, brown and olive. Also the right shade of coral if I can find it.