Style Guide: Colour and Contrast

This style guide uses rules on colour and contrast to show you how to dress like a fucking man. The problem with wearing jeans, jacket and boaters is that you could end up looking like your dad. But our kid's dodged that bullet.
 


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Rules


15. You’re between a Differ and a Similar. You need to mirror the contrast of your hair colour to your face colour in your clothes. It makes the whole thing look more composed, not just a collection of things.


18. Work with your palette. Unless you’re a black and white minstrel, or you want to look like a French man, you’ll have to start picking out tones in your face to work with: eye colour, ruddiness of your cheeks, hair colour. The big advantage of building a wardrobe based on your palette is that more and more clothes will fit together, and you’ll get more combinations of clothes.


26. Only well fitted clothes look good. Too baggy, you’ll look fat and like you’re trying to hide something, too tight and you’re not going to look buff, just squeezed.

Here is an excellent use of colour.  He’s taken the slight redness in his beard and the blond of his hair and mirrored that in his jumper and his collar (jacket and shirt).  The contrast in colours is medium, which reflects the contrast in his face, to hair colour.  If he’d been wearing bland similar colours his face would have been washed out, similarly, having stark contrasting colours would have over powered his face.  Just to hammer home that everything is subtly considered, the shoelaces complement the pallet.

By keeping the shapes smart, but the clothes relaxed, you’re looking smart, but not stuffy.  The popped collar, and nice jacket pocket detail, shows an attention to detail that your average gob-shite will miss.