 Summer Accessorizing
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How to Shop for Your Summer Colors
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Choose soft dusty tones. Think in terms of cool or blue-based, muted or cloudy colors. Solids, soft watercolor prints, busty or complex prints are beautiful in Summer colors. Soft textures best enhance these colors in everything from soft wood crepes to cotton knits.
Avoid: Black, stark white, orange and all yellow-based colors.
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Summer Accessories Suggestions
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Start with the basics to coordinate with your basic wardrobe selections: navy, blue-grays, off white, rose beige, rose taupe, soft rose brown, and burgundy or plum. Pumps or sling backs belong with suits or business looks and strappy shoes or sandals with dresses and some casual looks. Shoes should be the same color value as hemline or darker for dressup.
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Basic Summer Hosiery Colors
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Taupe, gray tones, rose beige or navy. Hosiery color should blend shoe with hemline.
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Summer Jewelry
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Metals: Pewter, white gold or rose gold.
Stones: Pearls, garnets, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, cool jade, pale amethyst, lapis, sapphires.
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Glass Frames for Summer
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Metal: Pewter, silver
Plastics: Taupe, rose, blue-gray or clear. Choose the color that best blends with the hair and skin tones if a classic look is desired.
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Furs for Summer
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Pink champagne mink, pale silver fox, beaver, raccoon, muskrat, off-white mink, wolf; your hair shade or lighter.
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The suggestions for color in accessories are basics. Once you get a feel for your season you may try other colors as long as you stay in the range of your summer palette.
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Summer Hair Color
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Your natural hair color is often best. However, many times the summer ash tone or mousy hair color is greatly enhanced by frosting, highlighting or weaving with cool-ash tone blonde shades.
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