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What Clothing Colours Suit You the Best?

By Mahnoor Malik @MahnoorMalik90

Everyone who’s ever been interested in fashion knows that color is perhaps the most important aspect of our clothes—at least when it comes to making an impression on other people. The impact of our clothing color is immediate, much more so than the shape or the texture of the clothes we’re wearing. If you want to make a positive impression, then you really need to be a bit choosy in picking the colour of your clothes.

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You can’t just pick any color at random, or choose a color because it happens to be your favorite hue. You need to think about how it matches your natural colours. In other words, it needs to match the color of your skin, and the color of your hair – amongst other things.

A Simple Guide

Here’s a brief guide to help you pick the best colours that will bring out your very best fashion look:

Black hair - If you have black hair and you have pale skin, your best colours are the lighter tones of green and blue, as well as light to medium gray. You should stay away from really light grey, yellow, tan, and brown. For those with dark hair and dark skin, you can choose from blue, green, yellow, pink, violet, and tan. Avoid the darker tones of blue and gray.

Blonde hair - Pale-skinned, blonde individuals should gravitate towards grey, green, brick, red, navy, and blue. Don’t go for yellow, beige, light grey, dark brown, or black. For those with darker skin, choose pink, beige, and light gray. Bypass the darker hues of brown and blue.

Red hair - Redheads usually have pale skin so it’s best to look at blue, green, brown, pale yellow and medium gray. The colours you should avoid include yellow, orange, red, and light gray. The colours that go best with a darker skin are grey, brown, and tan. Don’t even think about wearing yellow or red.

Brown hair - For those with lighter skin, select blue, brown, tan, grey, medium grey, or olive. Don’t choose orange, mustard or dark gray. For those with darker skin, pink and violet are great choices and brown should be avoided.

Grey hair – Anyone with gray hair and pale skin should consider grey, maroon, navy, and black. Don’t choose tan, brown, green, yellow, and pastels. For those with darker skin, you’re one of the fortunate few that look great in just about any colour! Just try to avoid pastels!

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The importance of choosing the right colours

There is one final bit of advice to add here. The list of colours that have been recommended for you above is just a guide, and they’re intended to take you on the right path towards the proper color choices. These recommendations, however, are not set in stone. You still need to try out the clothes so you can see how they look on you, and it also helps if you can get an opinion from someone else whose fashion sense you respect.


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