I was all prepared to continue on my merry way wearing black on black with tiny accents all through summer when I was intervened upon. They literally said stop being so darn uncool and wear some colour for goodness sake. I pouted for a while… Whined for even longer. Then decided that why not challenge myself. It’s been a while since my aim was to put together stylish, colourful outfits. So that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to go bright or go home this summer. Challenge accepted.
One look at my wardrobe tells me I’m in big trouble. Not only do I not have a lot of colour in there, but there is very little print either. Need a plain black or white t-shirt though and I’m your girl. It might take a little rebuilding, but I can do that. I’m committed to adding only items that are light and bright in the coming months and maybe even weeding out some of the black. Maybe.
So where the heck am I going to start?
Good question!
Nat from Defined Image has an eBook on incorporating colour and print into your wardrobe. I’m lucky enough to own a copy of all of Nat’s eBooks thanks to her generosity during the Fashion Anarchy post series. So I’m going to go back to that eBook and relearn some tricks and ideas to amp up the colour factor in my wardrobe. Print is something I’m very interested in too.
Then I’m going to flick through a few magazines, hit up Pinterest, and a few blogs then start to form an idea of what a light and bright wardrobe even looks like on me. I know I always emphasise this as a way to develop a style. But I do that because it works. It’s not about taking someone else’s look and copying it, it’s about starting to work out what you like and what works for you and the look you are going for. That is what makes it personal style.
Wish me luck Sugers. Are you adding colour to your wardrobe this summer? How do you plan to do it?
Hi! I’m Melissa Walker Horn. Around here, they call me Suger. I’m the Chief Blogger and doer of all the things here at Suger Coat It. Blogging since 1901; I love a casual ootd, taking photos, and writing about things that irk or inspire me. I love wine and cheese, long days at the beach and spending time with my family. I make stuff for the internet over at Chalkboard Digital. You know, living the sweet life.
Suger… I am taking it that ‘black’ is your favourite colour? hmmm… if so, that makes it harder…
Start small, add colour in your bling bling, in soft scarves and bandanas, that sort of thing. Any time you think the beach, use colour then too… eg. your sarong… Black is way too hot for the beach anyho…
Noela
Weeeeell, it’s up there. Haha. It’s just so easy to throw on when I’m running late and coordinating stuff would suck. HA. Funny you mention that, I wore a black swimsuit the other week and it WAS hot. You are absolutely right.
Not to toot my own horn (first time in my life I use that frase, ha) but you should really keep and eye on my blog. I´m launching the new Curvas Libres collection this week and it´s all about bright colors and prints (only one black pant and one grey tank among the 50+ pieces). You can´t ask for less monochromatic than that!
Ooooo fancy. I WILL be over to check that out. Good luck to you, I hope it all goes swimmingly.
you do colour pretty well if I recall a year or so ago. I would start with some colourful and printed tops to go with your black or white basics. Then add some plain coloured bottoms that pick up colours in your printed colourful tops to give them even more life. Don’t forget colourful accessories to give a pop of plain colour. I am waiting on one particular necklace in TS spring range to become available. It will give the blues in my wardrobe a lot of pop
Yeah, it just sort of tapered off along the way there somewhere. And I liked it. Haha. But happy to tackle the challenge and push myself to do something different. See what happens. Great tips, thank you lovely!
No colour adding here, I already have too much colour as it is lol! I have been loving Pinterest of late for a wee bit of outfit inspiration even though I still don’t quite get Pinterest lol! Good luck with your challenge! I reckon you will rock it & I can’t wait to see pictures!
I’m doing a lot of the same! Trying to resist the urge to not pin more monochrome or denim based outfits and go bright. My strategy with Pinterest has always been pin ALL the things. Haha. Wish me luck. 😉
And I thought I was the only one with the pin all the things strategy lol! Nice to hear I am not. =) My thing at the moment are midi skirts. I bought an awesome metallic silver one from Sussan but not really very confident in styling it. Pinterest has helped immensely though!
Oh you’re not! It’s very much part of my strategy for EVERYTHING. The skirt shoulds fab. Depending on the silver colour I’d wear it with white, tan and a white based print. Just my two cents. 😉