How to wear Summer colors in Winter

If you have fair coloring perhaps you wonder how to wear your Summer colors in Winter?

Don't worry because your beautiful color palette is not just for the floaty or lightweight garments of high Summer! This is a wide range of subtle almost sensual shades and all of the colors will happily lend themselves to the heavier and warmer items you need for the colder months.

I'm showing you a selection of the yummy shades from the Autumn/Winter collection of Kettlewell Colours, where you will find every shade in your color palette no matter your coloring! Click into any image to see more. 

Your color palette

Although we refer to the 4 best known color families as Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, it doesn't mean that each set of colors is limited to that particular season of the year.

Each of the Seasonal color palettes will function equally as well throughout the year and, indeed, in any climate. 

If you have been determined or picture yourself as Summer, take some time to explore the wide range of colors in the Summer color swatch.

You will find light, medium and deeper shades - OK the deep ones may not be as dark or intense as those in other color families - but they are relatively strong against your delicate coloring.

How to wear Summer colors in Winter

The outfits pictured below are all from Kettlewell Colours who produce a fabulous range of colors for each of the 4 Seasonal color families. Do take a look the outfit photos are so inspirational! 

This shows how easily the pretty colors of Summer lend themselves to wearing right through the Winter months. The soft dusky shades come into their own with warm knitwear and co-ordination works in exactly the same way anytime of the year. 

Your colors are...

• Your colors all have a COOL undertone but they are duskiest of the cool tones - added grey takes away any harshness.
  

• Your colors are SOFT and subtle - blue reds, grape and damson, beige and silver grey, blues and blue toned sea greens. 
  

• You can see that the fabric you choose helps here too. For the colder months choose the softest and warmest fabrics such as wool, fine jersey knit, soft faux suede, velvet...

• Your colors are LIGHT. That doesn't mean that they're all pastel and wishy washy just that the colors have a lightness of pigment. With the Summer colors you're able to have a depth of color but without the weight of heavy saturation which would overpower your delicate coloring.
  

Look at our Summer ladies...

Is your coloring anything like these ladies? It doesn't matter what age you are if your natural coloring fits into the Summer Color Family. 

A fair skin can look completely washed out with very pale shades but the soft and subtle colors of the Summer palette bring just the perfect amount of delicate color.

Click through each image to see what our Summer ladies have to say about Color Analysis.