05 Sep How to pair neutral colours with beautiful, sensual scarves
Neutrals rule our sartorial lives. No clothes retailer would be insane enough to offer a pair of pants for sale and omit the option of black. Or navy. Or some kind of mid-tone taupe-y, olive-y non-colour. (Remember ‘donkey’? Still struggling to define that one.)
Neutrals are a blessing. They’re consistent, reliable, flattering and they all go with each other without inducing anxiety and causing you wasted time in the morning when you’re getting dressed. Even white performs reliably like this, despite begging for some terrible kind of tomato sauce accident the moment you put it on, even when you don’t eat tomato sauce.
But, and I’m not gonna whisper this, because you KNOW what I’m going to say, they’re boring. That is, they’re boring on their own. This is what neutrals say: Safe. Timid. Appropriate. Polite. Inoffensive. And it’s easy to identify with that, said no one.
But neutrals aren’t there to be boring. They have a really important job, which is to be the calm, supportive background for your own, individual, authentic expression. Lay down a neutral base and you can add something beautiful, unusual, colourful and sensuous and still be prepped for work, airport, school pickup, inadvisable tryst, whatever.
Put a fabulous silk scarf glowing with colour and texture around your neck, or don a pair of oversize earrings, and that black T shirt/navy tunic/white button-down shirt isn’t boring anymore. It’s like a well-trained dog. It knows what to do. It’s in a RELATIONSHIP now. Sorted.
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