Petite & apple - Caryn Franklin's How to Look Good

Step Five
Fitted streamlined jacket
Step Five. Colour
JACKET SHAPES
This section gives you an
insight intothose
all-important outer layers. By
their very nature jackets are
tailored to some degree and
have belt, pocket and collar
features. (I’ve done a separate
collar guide overleaf). I will
also be talking about lengths
here not just for jackets
but coats too since the same
styles appear with
extra length.
Fitted streamlined jacket
The fitted streamlined jacket comes in a
variety of styles but is identifiable by its
lack of features and undefined waist. It is
a classic style and often in a soft leather
or glazed gabardine fabrics.
There is so much to be said about colour that I’m
keeping it as simple as possible.
Colour has the ability to draw the eye to wherever it is placed. It can
also be a helpful tool in playing up or down certain parts of your body.
So use colour with the knowledge that a dark colour minimises and
narrows the part of the body it covers and bright orlight colour
accentuates or draws attention to the part of the body it covers.
Firstly, choose colour to suit your skin tone. If you are pale find a tonal
match in your favourite colour. What I’m saying here is that you can
wear any colour you damn well please but it must be tonally
compatible to your skin and hair. Let’s take blue for instance - there
is a huge selection of tones from baby blue to peacock blue and
midnight blue. Discount the primary version immediately. Primary
colours suit very few skin tones over five years old.
Then apply this basic rule: If you are pale, choose a blue that is not
pigment intense. If you are mid-tone, choose a blue with a medium
amount of pigment and, if you are dark, you can go all the way. Put
simply this means that pale skins can wear lights but not brights (rich
colour will make you look washed out). Mid-tones can wear lights or
brights that are not too rich and not too pale and dark skins can wear
brights but not lights (a pale colour can often look faded and washed
out unable to offer any complimentary glow to dark skin).
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