wednesday, 29th july - thursday, 30th july

I still think s*asonal c*lor a*alsysis is primarily a joke and snake oil for millennial womenchildren, both of rowdent type who want to be good looking "refined women"... or total chungi. There's one snake oil saleswoman who's complete millennial chungus stuck in 2015 fashion wise in my country and slop mills raved about her few times, she's super cringe in general - yet women pay her insane money, like 100-400eur for her snake oil and telling them to trash their wardrobes or do shitty dye jobs to get the most garish "right colors" possible. Despite how stupid whole thing is and how main consumers of it are cringe, one thing isn't that stupid - knowing if you're cool or warm toned is good, but you don't have to go insane and trash anything that isn't exactly cool or warm in clothes, it doesn't make such impact compared to make-up. When I started wearing cooler or actually neutral shades I stopped looking so sickly yellow, back when I still wore it.

Yet, with clothes it's mostly snake oil - maybe I'm blind (for you millennial chungi), but I seriously I don't see a difference when I wear a verboten, for my type, color like warm dark beige or tons of cream and when I wear the "proper colors" - although knowing supposed "right colors" made me actually like violets and muted blues more than before, which made me realize that I never really liked most of greens at all for example.

In fact I like lot of colors, but every color has their application; some look better on an object or on a wall, some look good in form of clothing. The most important thing is actually knowing what colors you like the most and what you actually wear, in my case it does overlap. I might just point out, even for my reference what I actually enjoy on myself nowadays:

• white, off-white and cream - especially the latter, for summer and spring, usually in solid matte fabric
• pale cool greyish beige - always matte, cotton, for summer - looks dogshit in wool, unless it's matte gabardine/twill
• warm and cool beige, usually melange - both wool and linen. I like the warmer, more yellowish shades more, since they are most commonly found. Solid darker warm beige is fine, but only as linen. Rarely, it can be nice looking in flannel wools.
• camel - either cotton or solid colored wool; but it has to be right shade, preferably flannel (for very 70s cuts in general). No melanges
• brown - either cool or warm (has to be medium, rich tone) and always a melange, tweed (can be with white) or herringbone. Solids are terrible in wool, but in linen and cotton they are great.
• light grey melange - linen or linen blends, could be beatiful in wool linen too
• medium grey to graphite - only wool, matte or flannel. Medium gray can have some sheen, as it does fit it. Mixes with white as twee
• black - I don't have to explain, but always matte, cotton or wool. Only in case of linen, it looks good with little sheen and dense weave.
• orange - rich and bright, in melange wool. Blood orange in solid fuzzy wool is fine too, especially if cooler.
• red - basically any shade, from bright tomato to burgundy, both warm and cool. For summer, linen and cotton. In wool, melange - deep red, burgundy. I can accept a good solid, but only for bottoms.
• pink - all pale shades cool, usually solid; cool medium pink, warm raspberry or pinkiest coral possible, cherry pink and very deep pink (summer). Melange rasberry for autumn and winter, a good cool or warm (rasberry) solid can be fine for bottoms.
• purple - plum, always melange or with texture for autumn and winter. No lilacs, but I can enjoy a good mid purple solid - it depends on shade.
• violet - lavender for shirts is beautiful, but rarely for anything else but it's fine. Usually very cool tones, medium dark, periwinkle leaning. Melange eye tweed in neutral violet is really beautiful.
• blue - steel blue, muted blue-gray from light to medium. Melanges especially for summer and spring, solids too. Lighter shades are beautiful, too. Must be very cool. Sometimes very bright clear sky blue. Clear baby blue for shirts, bright blue can be fine if chambray as white tones it down.
• teal - medium tone, more blue leaning or perfectly 50/50 blue and green. Only in wool flannel, better if yarn dyed.
• green - only specific shades of olive (very bright) or charteuse (again, specific shades). Both solid and melange/marled, for all fabrics.

I also pretty much figured out patterns I like, so I'll note them here for future too:

• pin/chalkstripe - always on grey, mid to graphite, preferably on flannel. 0,5-1,5cm spacing, wider spacing looks worse. For summer, similar spacing but in linen - muted steel blue or white with beige stripe.
• stripes - thin, hairline or halo stripes for shirt fabric. Bengal if it's linen, but only blue. I like striped seersucker too, but it's hard to find.
• houndstooth - big for coats and thick jackets. Finer for a skirt.
• plaid and check - this is very specific, it depends but when it feels off it feels off. I like good glen check though. Small check is fine if multicolour. "Blurry" tartan is beautiful too, especially in unusual colors like pink or violet.
• herringbone - fine, usually tone on tone or light and darker for anything else than coats, 0,5-1,5cm width. Anything wider and thicker, always with contrast (black and white, burgundy and cream, etc) for coats - I really like it with binding or piping matched to the darker tone, especially in leather.
• geometric patterns - very early 00s does 70s way. Usually in warm tones. Intarsia sweaters too. Hard to describe, better pictured I guess.