Colour consideration when choosing clothing

By Anelise Levis.

“You are looking smart” is one of the statements that most of us wish to hear after getting ready to go for work, school or anywhere else.

Although most of us pay much attention to clothes that we put on, we forget about shoes, watches and even ornaments such as earrings, rings which spice up our appearance.

Today let us discuss on colour consideration when choosing what clothes to wear or buy.

It should be noted that, the colours of the clothes we wear can make us look good or bad; hence, we have to know what kind of colours that match with our skins.

Understanding our skin colour tone is something that can help in realising the clothes we look best in, since skin colour tone differs from one person to another.

Actually there are people who have warm skin tone colour and others are neutral.

Speaking to The Hill Observer, Ms. Zamda George, a fashion designer who is also an instructor at the University of Dar es Salaam, said everyone should know how to choose the colours of the clothes to make one look the best.

“Colour is a very important thing to consider when choosing clothes to buy or to wear because it makes one look good. Most important thing is to consider which clothing colours shades look good on you,” said Ms. George.

“For example, blue colour has shades such as navy blue, dark blue, cool blue and light blue so one should consider which colour shades look good on him or her according to his or her skin colour tone,” Ms. George added.

Ms. George further said, “One should consider the prime time and occasion for a certain colour or type of clothes.”

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She said that in the afternoon one can wear cool colour sheds clothes whereas in the evening one can wear the bright or shinny colours. Whether the dressing is casual or official, she emphasised having recourse to personal style.

Also, she explained that there are masculine and feminine colours:  “Masculine colours include gray, navy blue which is one of the blue colour shades and army green while feminine colours include pink, orange and red.”

On colour blocking, Ms. George said there are no specific rules except that cool colours should be mixed with light or crazy colours. Also on mixed prints   materials such as khanga and vitenge (wrappers), Ms. George said one should consider whether the  material colour shades  look best on him or her