This week went badly. About 1/2 the way through the week, I realized that the lighting in my bedroom is not as honest as the lighting in my work bathroom. You’ll see what I mean on day 2.
Monochrome week was harder than I realized. I was fearful of becoming over matchy the entire week, and I realized that I mostly have the exact same color in several different articles of clothing, but I do not own the requisite shades, tints, or tones (oh my!) to properly create monochrome outfits.
Let’s super quick talk about hues, shades, tints, and tones. They’re supposed to be important in monochrome outfits, but I wanged it.
Choose a color. Let’s choose maroon. That’s our hue. Now if I had black to our hue, that becomes a shade of maroon. Add white, that’s a tint. You can also add gray to your hue, now you have a tone. Color theory is a lot more interesting and complicated than this, but it felt good to write down the basics.
Monochrome outfits would ideally follow this line of thought. Choose a hue, and then wear shades, tints, and tones of that hue.
My monochrome week was a failure by that standard. Oh well, not every week is gonna be great.
Monday
Deep Blue Something
Top: Lumiere, Pants: Everlane, Shoes: Antonio Melani
Tuesday
Here it is. My three entirely different hues of yellow-orange. One thing I noticed about this outfit was that if I removed my shoes, the dress/cardigan looked fine together. And if I removed the cardigan, the shoes/dress looked better together. The three of them together look all over the place. This was a terrible monochrome outfit.
Dress: Asos, Cardigan: Urban Outfitters, Shoes: Franco Sarto
Wednesday
Black feels like cheating. I realize that I own so much black clothing, I could probably do a black week. #postgothchic
Blazer: Doc & Amelia, Top: J.Crew, Pants: Spacegirlz, Shoes: Kelsi Dagger
Thursday
I have a maroon shirt I was originally planning to wear, but decided that was way too over the top maroon. I have another lighter pink nude shirt I should have worn that would have worked better for the theme. Oh well.
Top: Pins and Needles, Skirt: no idea but purchased at Dillard’s Clearance, Tights: no idea, Shoes: Antonio Melani
Friday
If black monochrome felt like cheating on monochrome week, then suiting IS cheating. This is my first ever suit that I own.
Suit: J.Crew, Top: TopShop, Shoes: 1.State, Necklace: Forever 21
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