Today we can see so much of black color in fashion collections, that it even rather suppresses. A feeling you look like some dowager duchess causes diffidence, even if they are convincing you violently, that this is black color that means a sign of taste and noble elegance. Meanwhile, in winter we want to get some additional energy to cope with all seasonal depressions, whims of impaired immunity, tiredness and just the dullness of outward things

Today we can see so much of black color in fashion collections, that it even rather suppresses. A feeling you look like some dowager duchess causes diffidence, even if they are convincing you violently, that this is black color that means a sign of taste and noble elegance. Meanwhile, in winter we want to get some additional energy to cope with all seasonal depressions, whims of impaired immunity, tiredness and just the dullness of outward things. We can only recall our vacation time, work skids without new ideas, relations with a close person turned to be commonness, own appearance entails only inferiority complex. In general, God himself tells us to paint the world in most unexpected and bright colors.
However, while proclaiming black color a king of the season, a majority of designers somehow “dragged” very bright and frank colors in their collections - either in pure form, or in the form of unexpected prints. So, let’s enjoy this energy during the season. You know, clothes should help us, not suppress!

First of all, you should pay attention to that obvious circumstance, that in a color spectrum chosen by designers for this winter, several colors prevail, we associate these colors with the rage and warmth of summer: red (Christian Dior, Fendi, Michael Kors) and yellow (Maxmara, Dries Van Noten) will remind us of the hot sun, green (Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix) - of grass and leaves, dark-blue (Emanuel Ungaro, Carolina Herrera, Balenciaga) - of clear spacious sky.
 
And if your first task is to improve your own health and mood, then throw away everything you knew about the “correct” color spectrum for some time and act absolutely wrong while choosing clothes. For so long we’ve been assuring ourselves and each other that a real lady’s color spectrum should have brown and grey colors, that we believed in this unconditionally and, being delighted with our friends’ boldness in wearing red, at best ourselves choose terracotta or smoke-pink in fitting-rooms.
O course, psychologists, urging us to avoid wearing bright ultramarine or turquoise, damask or orange, lemon-green or canary-yellow colors in business clothes, are right. However, you spend not 24 hours in a business atmosphere. Although several hours a week allow yourself color domination, and you’ll feel at once how your sensations change. It’s not by chance that for the second winter season designers have been offering us even furs, colored in pure rainbow tones, they seem absolutely fantastic if taken separately. We need only to put on a fox fur jacket, colored in sky-blue, or blue fox fur jacket with damask undercoat, you suddenly understand this is comfortable, cozily and inspiring. You feel like you’re someone else, not you.
 
Moreover, designers, as usual, bring also ideological base to their admiring of bright colors. It turns, that this is the whole mankind’s nostalgia of the simple and clear sixties, when we optimistically believed in human power, his boundless opportunities and were not afraid of global warming or ozone holes above our heads. Another motive of using bright colors along with black - is ethnics, oriented on the most exotic peoples, first of all - African ones. Ancient philosophers considered that superfluous glow in clothing is a sign of barbarism (don’t you think it resembles a philosophy of modern minimalist fashion for real ladies?).
So, how shall we benefit from all above mentioned?
 
Firstly, show readiness to changes and take a decisive step at once. Various neck-pieces, bags, gloves, thongs in a bright color spectrum - these are half measures, which cannot solve the main task and wake up dormant summer energy in you. Buy a yellow coat with big decorative buttons and surplice collar, scarlet fur coat made of shorn and painted rabbit, shrill dark blue dress of velvet or thin jersey.

Secondly, buy all accessories in the same tone, if you still want to have outer clothing items of more severe color (or of super stylish black). May everything - shoes, bag, gloves, belt, scarf - will be not just in the same color spectrum (for example, from light-blue to dark-blue), but of the same very bright and pure color.

Thirdly, bright color will dominate itself in a winter boring dullness, so, don’t choose things with very complicated cutting and lots of d?©cor. This will be a surplus already, and will deprive you of the pleasure you may plan while buying colored clothes.
 

Fourthly, don’t wear very bright colored clothes and things decorated with same bright prints. Scarlet dress in the waist and figured tights show a monstrous combination, which cannot be excised even by striving to raise your mood. By the way, among prints, psychologists advice to choose large spots in winter, in purely therapeutic purposes. Large spots are cozy, non-aggressive and associate with the same sun.

Fifthly, you should choose make-up very carefully while your color domination over other people. Here it’s necessary to find a golden middle. Bright make-up will look vulgar, pale “natural” one will make you disappear against your own attire background. And too bright hair color will draw people’s attention from yourself, then all your efforts to gain energetic explosion in your image will be wasted.