Monday, February 25, 2013

COLOR BLOCKING

Are you familiar with this fashion term and look?  Color Blocking refers to putting contrasting but complementary colors together in one outfit.  In my own wardrobe pairings I have had a lot of fun putting together unexpected colors and on these grey winter days a pop of color cheers me up.    
The Budget Fashionista blog put together this list of colors that would meet the above criteria:
  • Cobalt BlueYellowOrange
  • Chocolate BrownPink, Peach
  • PurpleBright Blue, Teal
  • Deep bluebright pink, White
  • Coral, Grey, Ivory
  • Style Prompt's blog shared this color wheel and a few of her thoughts on this trend:
    Color Wheel for Colorblocking Trend
    "The most popular theory for combining colors is called the rule of two-thirds. How you achieve the rule of two-thirds starts by making an equilateral triangle (a triangle with 3 equal sides) on the color wheel. In it’s most basic form, the points at the ends of this triangle will be touching either red-blue-yellow or orange-green-purple. From there, you pick two of the three colors that the triangle touches. These colors will almost always harmonize together beautifully."







    3 comments:

    1. love this post nancy!!!!! it's so you & super fun!!!

      xo. c & v
      cake & valley

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    2. What a fun way to do color blocking! Love the graphics :)

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    3. Nancy - I love this post! And I love feeling like I'm talking to you as I read this blog. :)

      Love and miss you!

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