Maybe the men’s swatches might be more your style? (Though as I understand it, these are really just extrapolated from the women’s ones -just darker, which I think we can work out?)

There IS a culturally-sanctioned school of thought to the effect that we “should” lighten up, wear more colour, and generally adopt something closer to a ‘feminine’ spectrum, but personality matters, too, as do factors such as workplace peer perception (for folks in corporate environments, where there often IS a subtext of colour association) – and I’m just a bit too saturnine by nature for some of “my colours”. (Also, too, as taller women we are going to struggle with choices anyway – off the peg suits? Ain’t happening in my world … )

Sorry to be blunt, but no wonder we Springs have it so hard, wearing / using our colours…I mean, I just don’t want to look like a granny just yet, or a 5 year old Disney Princess wannabee.

I guess that’s where colour analysis falls down. I might *suit* bag 1, colouring-wise, but I’d *buy* the true autumn bag. And it would probably work just fine.

Well, it was the last one I did so I was getting into the fun of doing that post. I really enjoyed it, just went shopping and allowed first impressions to flow. The expected bag, what I thought I was looking for, was a cognac leather briefcase type, and it would have worked well. But the Seasons all are misconceived in some way and I like trying to widen the frame, if I can. To get to the edge of your look without falling over, as it were, like in yoga and finding the edge of each movement.

This bag just spoke to me of productivity (Autumn) and drama (Winter), of strength (A) and elegance (W), of expensive (W) in a Chanel-Vuitton way. Some might see it as better for another Season but its solid, weighted look would seem to move it towards Autumn or Winter. Dark Winter could certainly do this, though the texture of the light part is more A than W’s more polished feel.

I do it all on feelings at this point. I’ve learned the pitch of the note in my head that says “feels right”. I’m making less and less sense, I know that. If my kids read this, their eyes would be rolling and they’d be making celestial choir sounds to indicate that I’ve gone too far.
Trisha, it’s just my taste really. I see every Dark Autumn I’ve known carrying this and providing a light spot in an otherwise often dark outfit. The eye has somewhere to rest? Maybe a little piece of negative space?

Ashley, the J. Crew bag is called the Campo. I have seen it on Ebay.