My last two posts have shown you how you can use neutrals as foundation pieces to build your wardrobe around. However you don't need to limit your foundation items to neutrals, you can use COLOUR! There are many colours that, like a neutral, will mix and match with a range of other colours. Often you may find that you already have an item or two in a particular colour that you tend to throw on with almost any outfit. The lovely E over at Academichic refers to these colours as psuedo neutrals (and her post is a great example of a grey neutral outfit!).
A great way to build up a set of foundation items in a colour is to use many different shades of that colour, they will go with each other and widen the range of accent colours you can add in. Let's start with an easy example - blue. You could start with an item from the navy neutral and add other items in various shades of blue (cobalt, aqua, turquoise, cornflower, baby blue, teal blue etc) to create a blue foundation. In this example set I have created a foundation in cobalt, navy, french blue and slate blue, and injected accents of red, fushia, yellow and white to create a 7 day capsule (work and casual wear plus an evening outfit).
Click on the pics to get a better look.
You can use all types of blue and add accents in many different colours, the softer hues of the colours I have used here, teals, greens, oranges, pastels, brights, medium hues, the list goes on. All the classic neutral tones will work too, especially greys.
You can use reds, greens, purples, almost any colour for your foundation items. this next set is an example of a green foundation capsule. Here I've taken dark green, olive, apple and sage, and added accents in coral, teal, chocolate and bronze tones to create a 7 day capsule.
The next example started off as a purple foundation, however as the set evolved there were a fey key items in orange that stood out, so I went with it and created a capsule with an orange foundation. To tones of orange, rust and coral I have added accents of red based purple, green and stone. This set is a 14 day capsule as I wanted to show several different combinations.
A great way to build up a set of foundation items in a colour is to use many different shades of that colour, they will go with each other and widen the range of accent colours you can add in. Let's start with an easy example - blue. You could start with an item from the navy neutral and add other items in various shades of blue (cobalt, aqua, turquoise, cornflower, baby blue, teal blue etc) to create a blue foundation. In this example set I have created a foundation in cobalt, navy, french blue and slate blue, and injected accents of red, fushia, yellow and white to create a 7 day capsule (work and casual wear plus an evening outfit).
Click on the pics to get a better look.
You can use all types of blue and add accents in many different colours, the softer hues of the colours I have used here, teals, greens, oranges, pastels, brights, medium hues, the list goes on. All the classic neutral tones will work too, especially greys.
You can use reds, greens, purples, almost any colour for your foundation items. this next set is an example of a green foundation capsule. Here I've taken dark green, olive, apple and sage, and added accents in coral, teal, chocolate and bronze tones to create a 7 day capsule.
The next example started off as a purple foundation, however as the set evolved there were a fey key items in orange that stood out, so I went with it and created a capsule with an orange foundation. To tones of orange, rust and coral I have added accents of red based purple, green and stone. This set is a 14 day capsule as I wanted to show several different combinations.
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