Fashion Good Fashion Concepts, Especially on contrast to standout

[JakethaSnake]

Contrast is important when dressing the right way for your skin tone, hair color, facial hair, and to match it with clothing. This link give you a beginner level breakdown of that. I do not work for this site, and they do sell stuff on there. I'm not sure if it's ok to post a link, but it did turn the lightbulb on in my head what to look for, and why certain stuff looks AMAZING on me and why other's not so much.

https://effortlessgent.com/contrast-clo ... binations/

The site in general has good info, I'm following it and I've been going to the Salvation Army and Resale shops getting staples and getting my wardrobe together. It's all coming together nicely. Lean and Mean baby.

 

[Big Daddy]

Okay, this looks solid, but after reading all kinds of guides in color coordinating I still find I would look terrible in what's "recommended" for me.

For instance, in accordance to that article, I'm a high contrast dude. Dark hair and white skin. So I should wear high contrast pieces. Kay.

This means I should either go for very bright and dark pieces, such as black blazer and white shirt, which is fine, or try to use high contrast color by picking two opposed colors in the color wheel such as:

- Green and purple
- Light blue and orange
- Red and somewhere between blue and green

Which might "compliment" my features, but wouldn't make me look sexy at all. So I'm always left with either absurd colors or very bland, monotone tones. In fact, I realized that I wore black my entire life just because "it goes with everything", but now I just think it's downright boring to wear black. So no black to me.

Does anyone more fashion savvy care to step in?

 

[JakethaSnake]

I'm high contrast as well. Mixed race guy with Persian looking features and skin tone. Beard is jet black, my hair is jet black. There's nothing wrong with black, white, and grey on us High Contrast guys. Now, I have sport coats with some patterns on them, pocket square, with a solid color vneck or low cut circle neck T. Then, I just match my shoes to my jeans.

For less casual, I skip sport coat, keep the same type of T's with jeans and a more casual shoe, or a close fitting button down. Vneck T's drive women crazy because I'm semi ripped. Color wise colorful top works for me, with dark colored bottoms, it doesn't really matter what color anymore, as long as the shoes match the bottoms.

That's just my 2 cents.