“Good” characters typically wear red, blue, and yellow.

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“Good” characters typically wear red, blue, and yellow.
As a true summer, my best colors are pink, purple, blue, green, and pale lemon yellow, plus grey, taupe, and silver-white.
Note: The women below are not true summers, but they’re wearing colors that are (or close enough to illustrate the idea).
We’re often taught that cool colors are blue, green, and purple.
Whereas warm colors are red, orange, and yellow.
Seems simple.
But then why do we call some whites “cool” and others “warm”?
And how can a lipstick be “blue-red”?
It’s enough to make you feel like the hapless Cinderella, unable to choose between cream and ecru dinner napkins.
The answer is:
As a true summer, here are my rules.
(This post is illustrated with looks I love—on other people! I think every celebrity pictured below looks awesome, even if some of them aren’t necessarily wearing their best colors.)
People think they look trendy and industrial.
They look like you can’t afford lampshades.
The color of your clothes (and hair, and makeup) affects your attractiveness. Consider the beautiful Eva Mendes:
Most of us will agree that she looks better on the right, where she is wearing her best clothing and makeup colors. But why?
Many people think horizontal stripes make them look short, fat, and wide.
Perhaps the whole horizontal = wide idea started because of visuals like this one. Which rectangle looks wider?
Somehow I don’t think the “sombrero around the neck” trend is going to catch on.
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