OUTSIDE COLORS

Yes, you can wear "outside" colors! If you want to wear a color that is not necessarily in you best range of colors, you can do it easily by building a deliberate bridge connecting the outside color to your own coloring. Combining the outside color with tones of your hair, connects the colors and makes a custom frame for you. In fact, repeating your hair and eye colors will customize all your outfits.

Notice how many shades and colors are in this model's hair; gold, yellow, camel, brown and charcoal. The light and dark hair- tones set the degree of contrast needed to repeat her coloring. She is wearing a multi-colored scarf of gold, blue, purple and black. The dominant gold  in her hair is repeated in the scarf which connects the color scheme of the scarf to her hair. This is a good example of how much difference one color can make. Without the gold, the scarf would be a complete "outside" color scheme and would look too dark and totally unconnected.

People with different coloring can wear the same fabric design, but connect it in their own way. The following examples will show the broad range of flexibility you have for matching hair and eye colors and connecting to color schemes. The following print offers a variety of possible hair-color connections. Orange for Spring and Autumns, off-white tones for Summers, and white, charcoal and black for Winters.

This warm fabric print can be worn by all the Homebase color categories. Spring and Autumns connect to the camel background, but the fabric also has Winter/Summer hair-color repeats. Even dark eyes from the cool side, and warm eyes from the warm side are repeated in the print.

The following print is balanced with a taupe background and offers Inter-season combinations. Brown, teal and rust for Autumns; white, taupe, rose and light teal for Summers; black, white and hunter green for Winter; and wine, rust and brown for Spring coloring. Eye colors that connect include black, dark brown, dusty teal and brown.

DISCONNECTED LADIES..... Then SWITCHED, RE-CONNECTED AND BALANCED

So often, women with dark hair don't realize that light shoes make them appear top-heavy, lacking a solid foundation. Again, Nature shows us a pattern for comfortable balance, going from dark colored earth, medium colored grass and trees, a light blue sky and then white clouds.  A dark-haired person looks better with dark shoes, or at least a shoe with a black sole for a finished look. Light haired people can wear either dark or light colors on the bottom; light colored shoes repeat light hair, and a darker shoes work because they give a good foundation.

Yellow is a difficult color to wear for two reasons. The Law of Attraction is especially apparent when trying to combine yellow in clothing combinations. The property of yellow is readily altered; if you put a drop of green paint in   yellow , the yellow is immediately sullied, whereas a drop of green paint in    red    paint is hardly noticeable. The same thing happens when yellow is combined with greens or browns in clothing; the yellow appears muddy. Another reason yellow is difficult to wear is because our skintones are already basically warm and yellow accentuates the yellow in skintones; therefore yellow is not as flattering as the pink and red tones we use for makeup and accent.

However, there are some very nice combinations that do work and give a wonderful uplift and change to a wardrobe — black, charcoal, white, navy and all blues combine well with yellow:

Combine your Homebase yellow with your hair color. If your hair is dark then combine your yellow with black or navy; if it is medium in value then use charcoal or a softer navy. Yellow is very compatible with jeans, either dark or faded. Let the stitching on the Levis be in your Homebase family; otherwise, orange or gold stitching for Spring and Autumn, and white stitching for Summers and Winters. Since purple is the complementary to yellow, when worn together they add a bright touch.


If you have blue eyes, then yellow with blue is definitely good for you. If your eyes are teal, then combine your yellow with dark and light teals as well as turquoise and aquamarine. Autumns can wear their Homebase gold-yellow with hair color, or colors that have the same contrast value as their hair (pictured below).

Yellow is an excellent accent color for men's ties and patterns. You will find that regardless of your Homebase, yellow with soft black, charcoal, gray, white or navy are good combinations. Just be sure to combine them with the yellow from your Homebase category.

• Winter wears black and stark-white with Homebase yellow



• Summer wears stark-white with Homebase yellow



• Summer/Autumn wears stark-white with balanced cornsilk yellow



• Autumn wears gold with substitute hair colors that would mimic hair by being the same value



• The picture of the Classic Repeat on the young man simply allows the eye to take in the whole picture without distraction. Highlights of the hair are repeated in the yellow sweater, and the value of the shadows in the hair are repeated by the shirt and slacks.