I think I understand the science behind matching clothes

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So after nearly 21 years of practically being a little boy, (i.e wearing sweat pants and over sized plain shirts, playing with Pokemon, Yugi-Oh and Magic Cards, collecting FF figures for about 7 years and not knowing how to put on make up until I was 15) I finally figured out that what you wear DOES matter if it doesn't match.

I usually never really cared for what I wore... I only just started dabbling in jeans a few years ago, and I figured jeans went with everything. But not if it's the wrong colour. I usually wore just dark wash or blue jeans, which normally go with any type of top. But last week, I bought my first pair of spiffy white jeans. I've always wanted a pair of white jeans but you need a specific body type for them, otherwise (seeing as they're write) they can highlite all your flaws.

Not thinking about it I had packed my white jeans and a grey top to wear in town afterwards I was done with the gym. It was a cute, plain wash grey shirt which I thought would be okay with the pants. Boy was I wrong.

After changing, I had a glance in the full view mirror and there they were. My love handles. A beaming flaw highlited by the grey shirt, which was able to be pulled down over the back of the jeans, but oh the wrong colour for hiding flaws. That and it just... clashed. Grey doesn't go white, and now I could see why (unless it was perhaps layered).

A black top should have been my ideal choice to hide my love handles, which were never really an issue in all my dark wash jeans because they hid them fine.

...Where is all of this going? Well, I realized today that the whole 'this top doesn't go with my jeans' thing isn't just a farce. Because if you don't pay enough attention to what you're wearing and with what, then you may be showing off all your insecurities which you've tried to hard to hide over the last few years.

So girls, how about you? How long did it take you to realize this, if you even did, and does it make that big of a difference to you? Do you care about what you wear, or do you just throw shit together hoping it matches?
 
It's not just girls that do that. I've been matching my clothes too. I can't go out without being "properly put together". It makes me feel uncomfortable and unbalanced when I wear random things. I like to match certain colors and wear certain things with certain clothes. I never really figured out why. I just don't like not matching. I still don't think I'm hiding insicurities...if I am, then oh well :elmo:
 
Maybe that has more to do with OCD? o_O I haven't really heard of guys being into their clothes... Although with the current trend of metro's, it may be turning... Guys are getting better advice about what they're wearing as well.. Hrm...
 
you think black goes with everything til you try to team it up with brown, deary me. That was a bad move.... I only made that fail because I was late for work as well and didnt check how I looked before I left the house ]:

I'm not sure when I became aware of what I was wearing and how it looked, as a kid, I u sed to be a bit of a lad, half my clothes were hand me downs off boys, so I wasnt really arsed so long as I could climb trees etc with ease

I know I'm painfully aware now, even if im just throwing on a pair of baggy jeans, and going for comfort, the top has to be casual but fitted. Baggy jeans and loose tops just don't go at all

I wanted to crawl in a hold and hide yesterday with what I was wearing, never felt like such a frump in my LIFE. The colours matched, but it was what I was wearing that was the issue. I felt middle aged. This is what I get for staying out and forgetting to take a change of clothes with me, which lead to raiding the mothers wardrobe. My word....
 
LMAO what a riot!

Of course it matters what you wear everyone has a natural colour, being thin also helps increase the number of variations you can wear, as a guy you have to feel confident in what you wear it shows to others you have style and the ability to coordinate.

You can dress to your mood, for events.......even just hanging around the house you have to be comfortable.

Channi.....do you look back on all those tears and think how you were dressed?
and do you feel in retrospect?

Brown and Black?........eeeeshhh!
 
Navy and black, put it back

Also too many things these days get put down to OCD but whatevs

Anyways, I think everyone is like that. You choose the clothes and garments that go together, by colour or how they look together. Personally I always make sure the clothes I'm going to be wearing look good together, and how I'll look while wearing them. This is very rarely anything to do with insecurities, most of the times the styles just look silly together or the colours just don't go.

Though like I said very occasionally it will be to do with insecurities, for example I'm very slight and if I wear too baggy jumpers I tend to look much shorter and stockier, or if I wear jeans too loosely I think my legs look like they're oddly short. You have to realise that this is only 9/10 times so I don't think that matching clothes in certain ways is anything to do with insecurities very much at all.

I think you'll find also guys think about this as much as girls they'll just never mention it because most likely they'd be made fun of a bit, or they just couldn't be bothered.
 
Made fun off your not kidding!

Also the societal pressure is not the same on guys as it is on chicks? I think......
Its a double standard but its the kind that dont really matter, because people will wear what what they want if you push them with that society crap.

In some cases, like my own, alot off people dont give a fuck really and will wear what they want as long as it makes the comfortable, but even that has limits.

OCD, gets blamed for a lot of shit, and the loosest continuity involved in clothes is based on the outfit matching........try having OCD and walking trough a puddle or touching a freaking garbage can with your pants or shirt lol.......cause a scene and then see who gets picked on!

"OMG OMG OMG...........ewww its got germs on it!"

I Have OCD and this never happens lol.
(its usually reserved for the toilet)
 
i always make sure i match from the shirt to the shoes. i even match my boxers with my shirt. lol. if i look good, then i feel good, and if i feel good then its a good time. the only time ill go out wearing anything is my 3am ice cream runs.
 
I'm very careful with what colours I wear as well, even if they are co-ordinated.

I'm very pale and so yellows and lighter colours make me look even more sickly. XD

I was very tombyish up until I left highschool and I reckon I'm still trying to get a handle on what looks good with what.

Generally I'm very good with what clothes I put on.

You can't really go wrong with short shorts and a nice singlet top or jeans and a nice singlet top. XD Mostly all I wear is those combinations. >.<
 
I suppose when I went into college is when I started giving a crap about how I looked. Since I was going into a different form of the 'real world', I thought I would start wearing makeup and actually try to look nice and match my clothes depending on what the occasion was. If I was going to class, I'd dress down a little bit in some kind of jean, t-shirt ensemble. I think that's when I started my obsession with flats. Man, those shoes can be so cute. I never wear heels and before that I was a tennis shoe kinda gal (adidas, puma, etc). Being a tomboy wanting to look a bit more like a girl but not so girlie, the flats were a nice step up and easy to do. As long as you have the right length jean, the right color and some sort of top pieces or accessory to accent the color of the shoes with your outfit, it's all good.

Lately, I've become much better at it as, for a few years now, I've been having to dress more professionally (in actual suits) to go into the office when I worked for my step dad. And now that I am student teaching, I've had to throw together some pants, blazers and blouses that are really cute. The one thing I still have trouble with are skirts. It's not so much matching them as it is wanting to wear them. I don't know why I have so much trouble with it, but I guess I'm still a tomboy at heart.
 
It's interesting to see how many girls here were lads in what they wore before their 20s. :wacky: I didn't really care what I wore until the age of 16, but my actual fashion sense developed around the age of 18. :hmmm:

Before 18, I was quite happy wearing jeans, t-shirts, hoodies and trainers. I'd wear boots occasionally, but one pair didn't go with my clothes at all! They were bright brown and I'd wear them with a navy top! :gasp: Genereally, I'd wear a pale pink hoodie, a white strappy top, blue jeans and blue trainers. :hmmm:

When I started to lose weight, I valued myself more, noticed myself more and started to buy floral dresses, cardigans, tights, skirts and flowy tops! since floral dresses contain a number of colours, I'd always bring out the most vibrant with a cardigan and would use jewellery to balance the outfit. People in school used to tell me they were kinda jealous because I was really good at combining colours. :lew:

My most recent purchase was an emerald green dress with some birds, which I combined with a red belt from another skirt. I've always loved emerald green with red! However, thsi wasn't quite balanced so I picked out an old green and red necklace, then went to buy a nice red jacket, and hey presto! ^_^

Other examples... well, there's this example: http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a367/Yuna-Lenne/MeDress.jpg
(I loooove this dress!)

And I love wearing white combat trousers with a light coloured top which has pinks, yellows, greens and blues in it, then bringing out the green colour with a cardigan! :grin:

There's also another floral dress which is puffy and looks quite young on its own, so I wear a belt around it to bring it in and a leather jacket to make it more edgy! ;)

When I'm feeling lazy...my choices vary as I like to save the best clothes for when I'm out. I will generally wear jeans with a simple yet fitted top. Oooh, and I recently put on an old white shirt with purple buttons and a purple pattern with a purple cardigan, which looked fantastic! :yay:

It was easier when I wore earrings, but they cause small lumps to appear in my ear lobes. :hmph: I only wear them on special occasions. That final touch is all about necklaces.
 
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Well you know what? Fuck you guys. I can't match clothes for anything. It's not due to lack of trying, it's because I'm color blind. When it comes to matching colors and figuring out what color goes with what, I suck at it, I really do. So my wardrobe consists of two different colors: black and white. That's it, I have no variety of any other colors. If I try to wear any other color, I find that I just risk making myself look like an idiot.
 
:hmmm: If you're colourblind and see colours differently... shouldn't you still be able to match, but for different colour palettes?
 
Ahh, I was thinking of colourblind where he say one colour as another colour, and not no colour at all. I know someone like that with the former.
 
Ugh, around the house I do not care what I look like. Like, not at all. I would sit around in sweat pants if I was around close friends and family if I could. But if I'm going out I do try and dress good. I mean, I'm not rich so I can't wear expensive clothes but what I have I try to match somewhat. I mainly wear jeans and stuff but the jeans I DO have I think go pretty dang good with the cute tank tops or shirts that I do have.

I guess, the factor of me not caring what I look like to others(I'm talking about the flaws I do have with my body) makes me have an easier view on this sort of thing. If I like a pair of jeans and a t-shirt I'm wearing them, ain't nobody going to make me second guess that. :grin: I am not going to live around what others think.

However, that's not to say I'll go out in dirty/destroyed clothes with my hair unbrushed. And unless it's unbearably non-matchy(like sweatpants with those fugly fuzzy boots and stuff like this is a no in my book) I'll wear it and not really give a hoot.

I think when girls say stuff like "Oh, don't wear bootcut jeans with a tanktop" I just have to... like, laugh. :wacky: I'm not going to dress by the standards of everyone else. "Matching" clothes is something that differs from person to person so I don't think anyone should go by other people's dress codes.

But like I said before, all that matters to me is if they're clean and presentable clothes and if they're not, like, really badly non-matchy. :wacky: (but this is MY opinion, doesn't mean it's right for others :hmmm: )


That said, it's my personal belief that a pair of cute jeans paired up with a nice top can look good on ANY occasion, so thar :grin:

(ps. this doesn't include outfits like baggy unfitting jeans paired with a baggy over sized shirt :wacky: )

I do not think I answered this right. :okay:
 
I never cared if my clothes matched either. Mom would bother me about it, but I never went out of my way to actually match them. Then I had the talk with my friend about matching clothes and whatnot, ( :ahmed: ) and ever since then, I've tried to match as much as possible. I've gotten plenty of compliments on my new change in style too. So I dig this idea.
 
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