12/8/2023 0 Comments Analogous colors outfits![]() Try concentrating your gaze on the left dude’s eyes. But it is, in fact, the contrasting jacket that draws attention to itself. Now, on first viewing, you may decide the cartoon dude on the right still draws more attention. When you’re a low-contrast type, you want to avoid contrast in your outfits as much as possible. Avoid High Contrasts When You’re a Low-Contrast Type (Side-note: You’ll also look great in items that have high-contrast within themselves, e.g. But another great way to create contrast within your outfit is by wearing complementary colors. The easiest way to create a high-contrast outfit is by pairing light clothes with dark clothes. They create a frame around his face, drawing your gaze to its center. His high-contrasting clothes are a perfect complement to his high-contrasting features. I bet your gaze was instantly directed to the dude on the right. The low level of contrast between the light-grey jacket and white shirt underplay his natural features. Compare for yourself: Going on your gut instinct, which of the following two cartoon dudes looks better? When you’re a high-contrast type, you complement your features the most by wearing high-contrast outfits.ĭon’t take my word for it. Complement Your High Contrast By Wearing High-Contrast Outfits So let’s delve further into each contrast type, and see which combinations work best for you. High-contrast types should seek different combinations than low-contrast types. Not your outfit.Įvery contrast type has to combine their clothes in different ways to complement their facial features. The point of dressing well, after all, is to make you look sharper. YOU’LL LOVE THIS ONE, TOO Choose The Best Clothing Colors For Your Skin Tone How to Dress for Your Contrast Type High contrast: Your contrast level falls between seven and nine.Īnd once you’ve determined your contrast type, combining clothes is a cinch.Medium contrast: Your contrast level falls between four and six.Low contrast: Your contrast level falls between one and three.You should only know which of the following contrast types you belong to: When you put together clothes, you want to mimic the contrast between your skin and hair.īut again, you don’t have to be too precise. Then your contrast level is nine minus two, which is seven. So let’s say your skin is about a two, and your hair’s about a nine. To determine your contrast level, you have to determine where your skin and hair fall on this scale. The contrast scale runs from one to nine one being the lightest and nine being the darkest. Stand in front of a mirror and look at your skin color and your hair color.Īre they close in tonality, do you see a stark contrast, or do you fall somewhere in between? Step 2 – Score Yourself on the Contrast Scale So here’s what you do: Step 1 – Assess Your Contrast Level To create clothing combinations that complement your face, you have to look at the contrast between your hair and your skin.Īnd then, you have to repeat that contrast level in your outfit. So you have to combine clothes to complement your face, but how? How to Create Clothing Combinations That Complement Your Facial Features The point of dressing well, after all, is to make you look sharper. Ironically, when you do it right, your face should draw more attention than your clothes. But what’s most important (and much less talked about) is how they complement your face. You may think the secret to creating perfect clothing combinations lies in how they complement each other. The Little-Known Secret to Kick-Ass Clothing Combinations Well, today you’ll learn a secret that will help you do just that. You want to pick an outfit all by yourself, and still look sharp. You want to peruse a store and pick combinations based on your own instinct. You want to know how to combine clothes yourself. ![]() You may look for inspiration in magazines, look-books, or even just in the outfits of guys whose style you admire. You may even have tried to copy some of their looks, and again some worked better than others.Īnd you don’t want to rely on outside sources for inspiration. You may have experimented with different clothing combinations, and you may have discovered you like some better than others. Do you know which clothing combinations look best on you, and why? Sure, you’ve collected a bunch of nice clothes, but when putting them together, you’re completely stumped. You just don’t know how to combine them into a kick-ass outfit. Are you struggling with how to combine your clothes properly? The following is a guest article by Robert van Tongeren of Restart Your Style.
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