Colour Blocked Affair

 

   

 

Top and Skirt : H&M, Heels: Gifted ( London ), Sunglasses: Prada

Winters are approaching bringing along the trend of neutral colours, so before that happens I thought of doing a post on Colour Blocking.

Colour blocking is wearing a combination of different solid colours together in one outfit. You can pair two or three contrasting colours, at most four but you can't just pile on every colour you find in your wardrobe which might make you look like the human rainbow. It's good to anchor your outfit with a neutral colour like black, white, grey or beige. To find out which colours are complementary, the use of this colour wheel will help.

When colour blocking your outfits, try out these combinations:

Complementary colours: These are colours placed directly opposite each other on the wheel. Like yellow and violet in my outfit. 

Analogous colours: These are any three colours lined up next to each other on the colour wheel. Example: orange, red-orange and red.

T colours: These are colours that form a 'T' shape. Like yellow, purple and blue green which is there in my heels.

90 degree angles: Combine colours that are at a right angle with each other. Example: Orange-yellow and green or red and violet.

I decided to pair up yellow with violet i.e using “complementary colours” opposite to each other on the wheel, along with using the “T colours” combination for my footwear.