Color - Topic of the day 10/6/23
How do you approach color in clothing? All neutrals? Bold and vibrant statement colors? Do the colors you wear change by the season? Or have you given up entirely and only wear all black everything?
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i gave up trying to actually use logic for colors and instead just go by what feels right
but if i cba its all black time
my wardrobe si like, 50% black 50% color exactly which was unintentional but kinda welcome
If anyone says they don’t follow any color theory and goes by intuition and the colors look good I’m sorry but your intuition discovered color theory
my wardrobe colors can be best described as looking like the life cycle of a 
im a visual artist so i do know color theory yeah
though I do get that tendency to buy statement colors just to have something that doesn't "blend in" seamlessly
The mirror is the most useful guide for colors. My lazy defaults are either tonal (earth tones are easy), but if im really struggling i might use basic color theory to fill in a contrasting or complimentary piece. The one thing I dislike is all greyscale fits (black/grey/white), personally I want to have some splash of color in my fit.
Everyone I met who refuses to say they use color theory but dress in good colors adheres to color theory in my experience
I also love statement pieces, pink is amazing
I had an issue with wanting something in multiple colors, so if I liked a pair of pants, I’d try to get it in another color
just get multiple colors on the same pair of pants 
Like this? (Sneak peak of a future fit battle fit)
I have the jacket version of these, was waiting for colder weather
It's surprisingly warm
do people here tend to have color throughout their whole closets?
I feel like most of the color in mine is concentrated on top while pants are kinda 
distributed somewhat i think but definitely fewer in bottoms
I need some loud pants, my pants tend to be more neutral
My pants in general are more muted (between color and pattern) I have a few loud ones, but it’s much harder to layer your lower half
And layering is usually how I balance my louder pieces
After years of sticking to muted neutrals, I've been really enjoying mixing in more saturated colors into outfits lately. My approach to color is generally to go for a decent amount of contrast between my top and bottom. Occasionally I'll switch it up with a tonal brown/tan situation but I don't really go for the black on black these days
I couldn't really explain why it feels like having colorful pants "sticks out" more than loud stuff on top but this p much nails it
I have color everywhere though i usually stick with earth tones
I did not start my fashion life understanding colors even a little bit and i like brute for e taught myself color theory by picking outfits based on q color wheel app
Now its pretty easy going but i think a lot of it is self selection with what i buy usually fitting a certain palette
I came very close to getting some of the watercolor kapital pants they released recently on my proxy for loud ass pants but couldn't justify the purchase when they didn't have the exact size I wanted
JP sizing stock... 
I wanted size 2 but they only had size 1 in stock that might of fit but not worth not getting perfect (and even proxied it's $200)
size 1 in stock you 
Go for it, it's on Kapitals Japanese webstore
I think it’s a classic case of “x is real but the internet doesn’t actually know what it is and misuses it all the time” like yeah there’s a lot of valid thinking about color, but it’s not as simple as “wear these colors together, don’t wear these ones “
Ya often times when someone who doesn’t explicitly know color theory by the books puts on a good outfit, it’s because they have a fundamental understanding of color in general. There’s a lot of nuances. A good eye will pick it up even if they don’t know the terms or definitions
I don't believe in "color"
I’m still trying to figure out how to best work colors together, I tend to just try to match colors but I’d like to start using different colors together
I think there's an interesting thing w clothes where some stuff seems to transcend or ignore colour theory, like indigo dyed denim being seen as a neutral by many if not most people in the places I've lived in
Denim in general reads as very neutral
Texture and cultural context do a loooot of work in fashion
i def go by color theory but i don't have good vocabulary for it 🙂
this is a fun site https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel
i think monochrome and complementary are the most basic/easiest to pull off since you're relying on one or two ...tones? but some of these other ones introduce a third tone and whooiee but there are some creators who do this super well
I also use color theory because I genuinely think it’s fun to play around with
“colour” is also a fraud
So real
The ancient Greeks didn't believe in the colour blue and neither do I
i generally stick to whites/greys/blacks (and of course a lot of denim); that probably describes 75-80% of my clothes. the rest are pretty random and can be all over the place in jewel/earth/cool/warm/whatever tones
Lots of talk about color theory- my theory is that if I like a color, it looks good
is there any app that like, can take a photo of a piece of clothing you own, designate exactly what colour it is and then show you what colours would go best with it?
but also agree with others, there's some items of clothing that seem to transcend colour theory
like indigo dyed jeans are seen as neutral when indigo is quite a loud colour
olive is also often seen as a neutral despite not being a neutral
neutral in fashion seems to often be relative
and by this i mean like if smth is #4EF06 colour or #4EF05. like that kinda specific. not if something is blue or purple; i can distinguish that myself. most of the time.
but yeah what particular shade of that colour it is
just use a color palette app and eye ball the color
Color changes too much with lighting and texture and all that to get a specific hex code like that from a garment in the real world
You can get something close to the mid tones
You don't need to get that fine, just like is it bright/faded blackish/whiteish. And https://discord.com/channels/1116793467654381685/1159882764569542656/1159914192237772922
Paper print colors, digital colors, and textile colors actually all are different 🤓
So on the one hand like, to get a white cloth it needs to be bluish but on the other hand you have a lot of flexibility and variation on earth tones
But it’s not like anything is just one color in real life
yeah i was thinking that too
ahhh interesting! i had no idea about textile colours/digital colours and paper print colours
RGB vs CMYK etc