Just because you can wear colour, doesn’t mean you have to. Wearing monochrome in summer feels quietly subversive
Everyone looks better in black and white. This is, like, portrait photography 101, and why, if you stumble into some bad lighting, the monochrome Inkwell filter can save your Instagram selfie. It works for clothes, too.
It feels easier to wear colour in summer than it does in winter: a brightly printed dress is simpler to style when your legs are bare and you can throw on a blazer or denim jacket, depending on where you are going, than it is when you have to think about black tights or what on earth you’re going to do when your arms get cold. Then there’s the dubious logic of, “I can wear white/yellow/green only when I’ve got a tan, so now that I’ve got a tan, I’m wearing white/yellow/green for the next two weeks.” But just because you can wear colour, doesn’t mean you have to. Wearing monochrome in summer feels quietly subversive, when all around are in tropical brights and pastel rose prints.
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