Friday, September 27, 2013

Back to basics, or are they?? ?

Ladies and gentlemen that is the question. Gone are the days when there were rules in fashion and trends. Today, you make your own trend boom! Just for dramatic effect, ladies when was the last time you put on a petticoat (an undergarment worn to reduce the translucency of a dress, or skirt) for lack of a better word? That is just one, for those who grew up in the same decade I did, you know the value our mothers put on those pieces.

Anyway back to my point, in art school colors were meant to complement each other especially in an outfit. Now it’s cool to clash all you can as long as you can master the confidence to walk out of your house. Of course with the dot.com parents you don’t get the occasional “unaenda wapi kama umevaa hivyo, hebu rudi uvae vizuri tiiiii tiiiiiii tiiiiii”… again you get what I mean!

What you have below is a color wheel for those who are not familiar. It doesn’t matter how much the rules are being broken in the industry, you might need some of these knowledge.

Primary colors: They are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors, they are pure colors e.g. Red, Blue,Yellow. They always go well together.
Secondary colors: color made by mixing two primary colors e.g. Violet, Green, and Orange. These also go well together. You have to be careful about the shades though, everything in moderation.
Tertiary colors: color made by mixing one primary color with one secondary color e.g. red–orange, red–violet, yellow–orange,
yellow–green, blue–violet and blue–green. Brown, black, white and Grey also feature.

Trend Alert Complimentary colors:
They lie opposite on the color wheel. They are so in now it hurts! They include violet and yellow, red and green. In clashing they make the each other pop the more, that is why they are trendy now.

There you have it for those who knew and those who were green now we are all on the same page.
In an effort to keep at par with the new trends we have to adopt gradually, I lay emphasis on the word gradually. If you don’t know how to wear the piece ask someone, Joska the Trend or Google or something. This is to avoid the fashion tragedies we bump into in the streets every other second in the name of fashion, next time I will stop you…maybe.
Fay JTT

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