How to work out what colours suit you in three simple steps.

I wish I had known this in my twenties and thirties. It is useful and it would have helped me narrow down my style a lot earlier. It would also have saved me a lot of money and the embarrassment of wearing clothes that made me look like a corpse. 

I only stumbled across these colour tone ‘rules’ a few years ago and I can’t unlearn it - tempted to get rid of all the black clothes I amassed in my more professional London days. I am sorry if you already knew this or it’s obvious to you. There are all sorts of variations on these 'rules'. Autumn and winter, summer and spring etc. I think I'm a cool winter but I start to zone out at the mention of seasons. I just know I am cooler in tone than warmer in tone and that is enough direction to stop me making big mistakes when choosing certain colours. Reading up about this also helped me to work out that I can wear burgundy and maroon as well as dark brown which I would have always avoided before. Some basic starter tips: