Tie o’ the Day shows us a spot-on example of creating clash fashion by using different degrees of one color. The red of my shirt, paired with the red of my tie, sets forth two clashing reds that also sorta kinda blend into each other.
If your tie doesn’t jump out and grab attention, you are not clashing correctly. The trick to creating satisfactory clash out of the “same” colors is to close-but-not-quite match them. The hues must be different enough from each other that it’s clear you weren’t attempting to be matchy in the first place. They must clash to the extent that it is clear to everyone who sees you that you purposely meant to not match. Choose a single color and go with it. Almost.
And look! These two reds helped me pull a whole new face for my photo. I’ve never mugged like this before. Although it’s not a complicated face to make, I had no idea I was capable of making it. I think it’s important to learn how to do something new every day. 😜
While I was in The Tie Room choosing Tie this afternoon, I took a quick gander at the ties– just the regular ties– hanging in my closet. I have only a dozen ties whose colors are mainly red. It appears the majority of my ties are covered in blues. 2nd Place goes to hues of purple. I’ve got a thing for purples. The ties in last place are green. I’ve got probably only five or six green ties in my collection. It’s not that I don’t like the color green, it’s just that I haven’t found many green ties that stand out enough for my purposes. There are few loud and/or fun green ties out there . There are even relatively few green X-mas ties, but I do have some.
Speaking of Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa holiday ties and bow ties… Don’t forget that I have so many to wear that– in order for you to see every last one I’ve collected– I will have to sometimes wear more than two per day, even though I’ll begin wearing them the day after Thanksgiving. It’s what I have to do, in order to wear them all by Christmas. Tie + photograph = website post. Whew! I’m tired just thinking about all that extra work.
Seriously, I look forward to showing y’all all that merry holiday neckwear. Sing with me: “It’s the most/wonderful time/of the year.”
BTW The Ultimate SewingBox is being assembled as I’m typing this. I’m hoping I can write about the all-done furniture in tomorrow morning’s post. For now, I’m off to take photos of the various stages toward its completion.
