Dressing With Color: The Designer's Guide to Over 1,000 Color Combinations

By Jeanne Allen

For the woman who wants to look professional, well-dressed and comfortable all week long but is often bewildered by the vast array of designs and colors available to her, this comprehensive wardrobe guide provides a wealth of practical answers to the perennial question, "what to wear?" Using small silhouetted figures, it presents page after page of fashion options, each in a variety of well-coordinated color combinations. Acclaimed clothing designer Jeanne Allen explains why certain colors work together, suggests color proportions for each outfit, and offers essential tips on accessories such as jewelry, belts, and scarves. Also included are ideas for more casual outfits that go beyond the office. Eschewing rigid dressing for success formulas, Dressing with Color will prove to any woman that her wardrobe combinations can be as flexible and interesting as she is.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811800946
• ISBN13: 9780811800945
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Who's a Woman's Best Friend? Her stylist! 2nd best, her Stylist's Diary! This book is it!

This is a mini Encyclopedia of style! Illustration (Yes!), Explanations? (Yes!), Examples? (Yes!). This is a body of work that took wisdom, experience and taste to another level...shared knowledge that benefits the Student, the Worker, the Superheroe Mom and the Style Superstar in everybody. This answers the eternal dilemma of "What to Wear Today?" And many days and weeks after that! We all need a copy of this book by Jeanne Allen! (Look up her other tittles and thank yourself later!)

I'm practically color blind

This book takes you through pages of different base colors of skirts or pants and then adds a second set of colors as a shirt, to compare your color preferences. My own preferences in color combination was interesting. There were combinations I thought I would have liked and didn't, and vice versa. If you are a color diva you won't need this book. If you're color challenged like me, you'll keep it as a reference for breaking out of your basic wardrobe, and for adding jewelry, scarves, layers, etc.