How To Get It Right With Color Blocking

Color blocking simply means wearing brightly colored clothes with another bright one but of a different color. Colors that blend well in color blocking are usually those that complement each other on the color wheel( if you have some basic knowledge on colors). For instance since green is made up of yellow and blue, these colors will block well. Color blocking is almost the in thing for 2013 and its working wonders to revive bright colors. With color blocking, it's easier to get it right than wrong.
How to color block
When color blocking, you can either do it horizontally or vertically. In vertical color blocking you wear clothes with one bright color on the left and the other bright color on the right- not necessarily symmetrical. In horizontal color blocking, you wear a bright color on the top side and the other bright color on the bottom. For instance you can wear a red skirt and a blue top.
Slim people look better with horizontal color blocking while slightly bid and plus size people are advised to do vertical color blocking which has a slimming effect.

horizontal and vertical color blocking respectively

Both men and women can do color blocking. For men it takes more courage but it's usually amazing when a guy gets it right.Unlike before, the gap between feminine colors and masculine colors is rapidly narrowing and more men can be seen in pinks and purples. What matters most is how you pull the look. If you are not daring enough to try it with your outfit, you can start by trying out with your bag. You can decide to go all yellow then wear green shoes and a green handbag.

The simplest and the less daring way of color blocking is through your accessories. You can pick one plain color e.g red and choose to accessorize it with yellow earrings, necklace or tie. Scarfs and hair clips are also great for color blocking purposes.

It's not mandatory that you only blend two colors. You can use as many as you please as long as you do it well. I hope you try it out.

How Should Men Wear Their Scarfs?

It's the easiest thing to add to your outfit without interfering with your style and the easiest way brighten your looks in a stylish way. When it come to wearing scarfs, men have a very wide variety of style and fabrics to choose from. Other than that you will keep warm and sometimes break the office monotony of wearing your coat and tie daily- its actually not so cool.

What is the best fabric?

The most popular fabrics for making men scarfs are wool, cotton, linen, silk, cashmere, angora and some synthetic fabrics. Wool is very warm for the cold season while linen and silk are very stylish during summer. Whichever fabric you choose, make sure it is not too heavy as heavy fabrics are hard to knot or tie around your neck in style.

What length for what time?

Generally, long scarfs are very easy and convenient to wear for any one because you can tie them in a whole wide variety of styles. Short scarfs leave you with only one way of tying them plus they may not look too cool unless tucked inside your sweater or if they are light enough, tucked a little into your shirt.

How to differentiate male from female scarfs

One very obvious way of picking out a man's scarf is by looking at the color; pinks, shiny and scarfs with glitter designs on them are definitely meant for your girl. You should also not go picking scarfs that have been embellished with beads or flowers. The other way to tell you are wearing the wrong scarf is if it is very huge and you can cover yourself up with it like a blanket. Men scarfs, also do not have scarf pins but they can have buttons.
In short, men scarfs look quite simple and with not so screaming colors; the difference comes with how you wear them.

Different ways to tie your scarf and look stylish

Simple traditional way

Simply place it on your neck and let it flow

The formal way

Tuck in shorter scarfs into your shirt like Brad Pitt here

A loose double flip

Flip it twice round your neck and keep it loose

Tie everything up

You can choose to wrap the whole length round your neck

The modern knot

For a casual look, simply tie a small knot from the back of your neck and leave the rest hanging at the front.