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How To Co-ordinate Your Style?

People prefer to be fashionable and stylish when they step out to the streets. There are number of designs and colours available for both men and women to be fashionable, but unfortunately most of us neglect the importance of style co-ordination. Some colours match with only few particular colours, few designs go well with another few, and the same with fashion accessories. To be perfectly attired and stylish one should know what to wear, how to wear and what all accessories match it?

It is common to face dilemma in fashion coordination. How to match colors for clothing, how to coordinate checks with stripes and many more are the most common issues people face regarding fashion.

When looking at color coordination, there are two aspects to focus on: coordinating clothing against one's complexion and creating color harmony between different hues and shades. The ultimate challenge is mixing three or four patterns together but not looking ridiculous at all. Overall, the aim of coordination for colors and patterns is to achieve naturalness as well as bringing out the best blend that brightens up the overall look.

The main objective when matching clothes to the complexion is to divert the focus onto one's face, and not the clothes. So color coordination and complexion should be eventually shift the focal point to the person and never to the clothes. We wear the clothes and not the clothes wear us. Proper fashion coordination brings out the best in our personality.

Base on the degree of differentiation between the skin tone and hair color, we would use the same level of contrast to apply toward our clothing color coordination. Use similar color hues in our clothing to blend it against our facial skin pigment, hair color, or eye color to accentuate the facial focus.

Mixing two similar patterns like checks applies the same theory as the stripes. But checks have more intense pattern compared to stripes, so it can be more difficult in coordinating especially for plaids. When mixing two similar patterns, the main objective is to prevent an optical illusion of discord and extensive vibration between the patterns.

You need to have a natural and smooth transition between the two similar patterns. Mixing two similar patterns like stripes boils down to the size of the stripes as well as the spacing between the stripes. Make sure these two factors be as different as possible between the stripes. If two small size stripes are put together, the effect can create quite a bit of tension between them. When having two different stripes with similar spacing makes it difficult to put the attention on either stripe.

Now, to match two different patterns you should consider the scales of the patterns and size of the patterns. However, the concept of this matching differs from that of two similar patterns. The focus when doing such combination is to understand which one is the first pattern and which is the second. Naturally, the first pattern is usually the one that takes up most of your body and the second should be the one creating the accent. Avoid having the second pattern overwhelming the first. And also maintain good color coordination between the second pattern against the first pattern.

The fashion accessories you use should be complimentary to the dressing style. Prefer a hairstyle fitting to your dress code. Never a particular object on your body should look focused, but in a perfect match you should look brighter and cool.

Story first published: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 11:10 [IST]
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