Jeans for 3 Summers

True Summer colour becomes too vibrant next to these, so the jeans look old and tired. The opposite of the Bright Spring pair (beige heels, hand on hip) in this group, where it was the palette looking old and tired next to the jeans. These are better for Soft Summer.

J: Agree on Soft Summer. With these ones I can picture the dusty rose top no problem.

Outside what True Summer colours will balance, so they will become dull quickly when worn next to these jeans. They are quite blue, so we are thinking in the Winters somewhere, working well in Bright Spring or Dark Winter wardrobes.

J: Funny. On my screen (or with my eyes) they looked ok with the SSu fan, they have a smoky feel to them. However, picturing them with a soft dusted rose top, they may be too green looking.

Nice blue, getting a little greener, blue-greens being beautiful on True Summer. Too blue for Soft, too dark for Light Summer. The blue is not as saturated as the blue in the shoes, a good bet that it is Summer's.

Nice Summer blue. Orange stitching is expected on this item of clothing. There is no real way to harmonize it, so whether to avoid it or not is a matter of your taste.

These are here to set the calibration for the rest. Red-blue and inky is Winter, like this. Pink-blue and heathered is Summer. Good colour minimalism for Winter also, the same effect reading as monochromatic and great on Summer.

You don't know until you try, wondering if could sneak them into a Summer palette. Should have known not, the shirt is Summer-coloured and looks old, tired, washed too many times, just the Summer-coloured woman wearing this blue would. But I liked the shoes. Dark Autumn colour is too hot, but Dark Winter is great, best of the 3 Winters. A dark, brassy gold can be unexpectedly great on certain Dark Winters.

Pinkish blue will accord with the colours in this palette like a blue hydrangea and its green leaves. Obvious orange stitching would grab the attention in an unpleasant way here, this is much better.

J: Ooh an all white ensemble for TSu, how delightful. And pearl necklace, little silver sandals....

Really like these. With some palettes, my harmony decisions come easiest with the reds, some with the difficult colours. With Light Summer, I use the red, blue, and yellow based neutral colour strips.

Compared to the leopard heels pic next-door, these did not participate in great combos with the neutrals. The jeans just looked yellow. OTOH, the Light Spring palette lit right up and the jeans looked like blue jeans.

Among the great things about jeans is that they don't have to be perfect to work very well. For natural looks, a little mismatch works even better. These seem fine with both Light Seasons.

Light Season jeans can be faded, or they don't need to be. Especially with Light Summer, who is so enhanced by controlled darkness, and is the most pigmented of the Summer group.

Across the entire palette, lightest to darkest, warmest to coolest, this colour worked well. No colour was distorted into looking bluer, darker, duller, or more pale than at full energy.

These are so faded that despite being light, they work better for Soft Summer.

The no-brainer Light Summer jean. Don't go too light. That pigment is necessary to balance the top half, especially if the blouse and makeup are the mid or darker colours of the palette.

Love this colour. I wanted to put it in the Spring catalog too, I see Jorunn beat me to it. Lots of colour with a green quality, yellow-green often being a sign of Spring, though green influence appears in most palettes. Top end of darkness and saturation for LSu, as are the shoes. I wondered about Dark Winter but those colours look much more intense, to the point of being almost cartoonish.

Soft Autumn by a hair, Soft Summer quite ok too. In the video, the top is Dark Something and the pants are not in balance. The top half of the person looks bigger and bulkier than the bottom, style of garment notwithstanding. Some sort of Summer influence certainly.

Nice. Bluer grey than the ones above (hand in pocket). Dark and dusty. Excellent alternative to black in a Soft Summer wardrobe. Slimming in the lower half, not too shadowing or severe near the face. A gorgeous neutral colour often found in the eye - because most everyone's best hair colour is in the eye, often around the outside edge of the iris in the cooler colouring types.

As long as the blue is truly blue, or slightly mauve or teal, darkness is not a problem for Soft Summer. The boots are too yellow to make sense. This pant could be equally good for Dark Winter.

Colour that is more soft than it is blue, in a medium-dark appearance is great. These could work nicely on True Summer also.

Watch the video at Saks. Very flattering fit. Also a lot pinker in the video. I like them for True or Soft Summer (more True in the video but it just doesn't matter enough to miss such nice jeans).

You see grey, you think Soft Summer, right? That palette loses too much of its misty mauve smokey magic. The jeans are too warm. They worked well with all 3 Autumns to create different looks.

Very reasonable choice for Soft Summer. More blue, less green than the Autumn pair next door, and less influence from stitch colour. Of course, we had to visit the retailer page to make these colour decisions - and we're still at the mercy of lighting and monitors.

To J's question above: Absolutely. In the video, the pants are just slightly less than the shirt and shoes, but very workable in a DW wardrobe. They retain a blue quality that will be good with Summer, to the extent that the lighting in the videos and stills can be counted on.

Here for calibration. On the product's retail page, the colour is too warm. Also, the amount of copper stitching on the rear view makes this a better choice for the Autumn group.