Activewear Jackets for The Light Spring Woman

January 25, 2010 by Christine Scaman

Because the Spring Season speaks primarily of movement and animation, you look great in active wear.

As always, staying true to your personal colour palette, I like this Zella jacket at Nordstrom.

Turquoise is certainly among your perfect clothes colours. It’s being marketed as THE colour this Season, but only 3 Seasons can wear a true clear turquoise, and the Light Spring is one of them.

I appreciate the flowing lines in the stitching. In 12 Season Colour Analysis, you are a Neutral Season, blending Spring with a little bit of Summer. Those wavy lines integrate your Summer touch with the flowing water effect, while still being gently zigzagged enough to suggest motion. As a gentle Spring, this gentle zigzag is a perfect mirror to your message in colour.

By comparison, this is not a good choice.

The draping, the batwing sleeves, the heavy ribbing and neck, and the prominent zipper do not express serious commitment to motion. Fabric with a very slight shimmer, like many activewear knits, is better on you. You are not well served by heavy fabrics like velour. Light, soft knits and synthetics are better.

You will express your personality better with some colour transitions. Your Summer trace is monochromatic, but not to this degree. Repeating a colour in the print of a top with a solid bottom will do well. Since you are predominantly Spring, you can certainly mix and match colours fairly freely. The jacket above was made for another Season.

A final great choice, below, the Nike Border Long Sleeve top. The fundamental shape of the Spring Season is the triangle.

The stitching at the armpit to neck conveys the triangle. The asymmetric Nike swoosh, with its lift at the corners, is a great little detail that says movement, and so Spring.

The colour could be yellower, ideally, but if you are on the cooler side of the Season, it may be perfect.

Filed under: Spring Colours, Topics in Colour Analysis
Tagged: Neutral Season, personal colour analysis, personal colour palette, seasonal colour analysis clothes colours, seasonal colour analysis personality, Spring Colours

Comments

2 Responses to “Activewear Jackets for The Light Spring Woman”

Cathy on January 25th, 2010 5:20 pm

This is so helpful! I believe I’m a True Summer and am eager to read your thoughts about this category as your time permits. Seeing the photos of current clothing you use to illustrate your points is such a help. I’ve been studying color analysis and style for decades. It is fascinating to learn more here at your blog. Everything you are writing and showing is confirming what I have figured is accurate, and to glean even more knowledge from you each time I visit is exciting. There is so much inaccurate info out there (i. e., “every woman must have a black dress”). Thank very much for sharing your expertise and for your time and effort!
Christine Scaman on January 26th, 2010 11:36 am

Thanks, Cathy,

You know, I’m not a clothing or image consultant. I actually make this up as I go along…but it’s not entirely random The more I see of this, the stronger my perceptions become.
It feels to me as though it can be no other way. Nothing else would make sense. Since I strongly believe that the status quo is wrong about everything, no leap is needed to say that the cosmetics and fashion industries are not there to serve us. They are money-making machines.
So you may read this, or someone with a formal education in style and dress may think I’m misguided, but this is how using the colours FEELS like it should.

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