True Autumn Jewelry
November 7, 2009 by Christine Scaman
You’ve arrived early for the party. You take a look around at who’s already there. Immediately, your eye is drawn to the two women talking on the couch.
One is sitting quietly, straight back even though it’s a slouchy couch, laughing but not letting loose. She’ll probably sit there all night because she doesn’t like circulating and making small talk. She feels self-conscious about how to interrupt conversations. Of course, she’s all in black. Not the most imaginative colour but it undeniably suits her. She’s wearing one solid piece of jewelry.
Her friend is doing an imitation of somebody. She’s laughing freely and gesturing more freely. She’s watching people coming in. She seems able to talk to three people at once. Her outfit is a riot of wavy lines but it was made for her. It’s a batik handpainted print with a beaded fringe. The waves appear in motion as she moves. The fabric is satiny and catches every ray of light. Her bracelet is so full of life that it would be too much costume on anyone else. On her, it looks beautiful with her golden skin. It is joyful and almost mischievous.
You move into the kitchen. The woman slicing vegetables for the platter commands attention. For one thing, she doesn’t care if you’re a guest, you’re given the job of refilling drinks. She’s directing traffic so the meal gets done on time and to her satisfaction. Her energy is highly organized as she orchestrates this evening.
You wonder if she has some Meditteranean ethnicity. Her skin is lightly freckled, but she seems to belong in the sun and to reflect its heat from her deepest core. Her cheekbones and jaw are equally strong. She wears little makeup, just a sheer bittersweet red lip colour. Like the colours of her busy and productive kitchen, she is wearing a raw silk blouse in a fabulous paprika colour, with a textured chocolate brown vest over it. Well in tune with her personal colour palette, she has added a fine woolen scarf with a stained-glass design in deep autumn leaf colours. Her pants are slim and straight, not flowing. Her bracelet is lying on the counter.
The piece FEELS just like the woman who wears it. It so belongs on her that you wouldn’t be surprised to see it fly through the air and attach itself to her wrist with an electrically charged attraction. A tapestry of molten colours is reflected from its chunky, squared stones and heavy settings.
The natural stones suit the straightforward character of this woman. They are the colours of a giving Earth. This is not September, with its lingering remnant of Summer. Neither is it November where the freeze is setting in. Colour is powerfully connected to how the Earth FEELS at certain times. This is a rich harvest, a comfortable welcome, a safe, steady place.
Seasonal colour analysis is very much about personality, about reflecting the inside on the outside. If the colour feeling you show is not the colour feeling you are, your appearance feels disorganized and random. This woman never pretends. She won’t say something just to flatter you unless she believes it to be true. She cries harder than anyone at a funeral. She is fiercely loyal to her family but will not spare them hard work or spoil them with extravagance. She may seem to absorb a lot of demands but when she draws the line at enough, everyone knows it.
She has a great sense of what suits her and combines jewelry and accessories in creative, individual ways. She wears 2 rings, her solid, wide, gold wedding band and a topaz stone in a solid gold setting. Her necklace is simple, heavy links of chain in a textured bronze. Their shape is squared, which seems to repeat the squareness of her jaw.
Her entire look FEELS rich but unpretentious, busy but approachable, and glowing but natural. She can wear a lot of metal at once and it works. Her hair is coloured to look metallic, with a dark copper shimmer on a warm, but not very dark, chocolate base. When she wears makeup, she chooses lip and cheek colours with a gleaming shine. By candlelight, even her skin seems burnished.
Her 2 daughters are both Autumn blends, not their mother’s True Season. They try to borrow their mother’s pieces but the energy doesn’t work. Why do so many of those pieces, like this bracelet, look clunky on the lighter daughter and completely meh on the darker one?
When the meal is done, she’ll be in the kitchen washing dishes, unless her considerate Summer husband beats her to it, which he usually does.
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ooo which jewelry piece am I… being the dark autumn that I am?
Can I wear that last piece you picture?….love it…but never see my self as you describe that woman…(course I am constantly surprised)…she reminded me of your lovely industrious sister- in- law but I can’t remember what she is for colour…is Holly an autumn of some sort?
I think I am the one who is gesturing on the couch with imitations and animations …. typical of me….kinda loopy but lovable i hope
Love this site Christine …POST MORE POST MORE!
This is such fun!
great post Christine! I can see this type of woman clearly! It reminds me a friend of mine!
so energetic, perfect with these colours.
I look forward to read the post about Soft Autumn Jewelry!
Gina,
as always, You and Holly are the 2 daughter, she the light one, you the dark one. I wanted to make the point that the season blends are quite individual in their own right. They have some things in common with their main True Season, but they are unique in themselves too. The True Autumn woman herself is Holly’s mom. The reserved one on the couch is Miss Generic True Winter. The activated one is Miss Generic True Spring. I had nobody in mind for those.
Luana, Colour is so deeply about who we are inside. We send out a very specific colour energy, and yet in wrong colour, we display colour wavelengths of who we are not. The two are as intimate as the left and right sides of the brain. When the connection is strong, it jumps because it’s charged. Soft Autumn is in the works. So much depends on photographs.
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Being that dark (love the fact that i am dark btw…makes me sound mysterious) daughter I guess it means I can’t wear that piece….kinda knew that….funny how that works, isn’t it ?
We really do know these things if we listen and allow ourselves to feel it. I think that is the biggest benefit from having the analysis done. You TRUST that feeling and KNOW it is right. How empowering is that for a gender who are constantly questioning themselves. You are doing such a good thing Chris…you really are.
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I like that last bracelet!
Would a tiger eye beaded stone necklace be True Autumn?
Yes, tiger eye is outstanding.