To Match, or Not to Match?

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Wearing a standout outfit is not always as easy as pulling out pants and a shirt and looking like a million bucks. Sometimes, looking great requires putting together the right combination of clothes. You open your wardrobe and see that white shirt you want to wear today, but picture wearing it with a green pair of pants. You are not too excited anymore, are you? The wrong combination can make a great dress or dull outfit look outstanding.

One way to make somewhat awkward colors work is by picking up something in the same color or a slightly different shade from the same color palette. Take out your light brown formal shirt that you haven’t picked up in a while, but now, with your dark brown jeans, the timing seems right. Whites and blacks are also colors that go great with a matching pair of shirts or trousers. However, there’s no shade that you can’t look good in when matching up your clothes.

However, the whole ball game tends to change when it comes to contrasting colors. There’s a whole range of clothing that can be worn together, but at the same time, a lot of clothes don’t go with one another. Browns usually go well with blacks; however, the extreme contrast to black does not go well with the color. White pants or black ones look best when paired with their extreme counterparts. However, it’s not just blacks that go along with all whites, in fact, you can actually get away with a lot of pairings that work just as well, think blue, olive and shades of grey.

Even then, instead of any universal rule, it’s more about going with your gut and staying confident because you might go wrong with the pairing the first couple of times. Still, you’ll never go wrong with a winning personality.