September 23, 2024
Ah, one of my favorite projects! “New” colors are always fun…
I feel like the Pantone people had a meeting at which they decided that their work needed to be more “green,” and that someone misunderstood the assignment. Lots of shades of green in this list!
But let’s start with Orangeade, which I kind of interpreted in a more rust direction, for autumn:
I like this warm light brown, but I might have tried harder to give it a more appealing name than Bran…
I don’t know why you’d take a nice shade of light camel and give it a slightly greenish cast…. OH WAIT, this is the green season…
I wish I could think of any legitimate reason for me to own this next scarf, but it would be fiction! If you wear these colors, look closely at this scarf. Heck, look at all of the Artifact. scarves. I just found this brand this year, and I think their work is amazing.
Now we plunge into “green-ville.” This White Grape is pretty, and I really like these earrings… And if you’re at all tempted by scarves from Otto & Spike, I can highly recommend them. One of my very favorite winter scarves is from there – a Fair Isle pattern in shades of grey from 3 years ago!
Here’s where I’m confounded. This Lime Cream is indeed a different color than White Grape, but it’s not THAT different. Did Pantone really see things at New York Fashion Week that persuaded them that both of these colors needed to be included? Oh, to be a fly on the wall at Pantone, eh?
Hey! Green! I rather love this shade, and here’s another gorgeous scarf…
This next color is lovely, but I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a limpet this color… But then again, I don’t know if I would recognize a limpet if it walked up to me and shook my hand…
Oh look! It’s almost navy! I feel like we see this color EVERY YEAR. Maybe that’s why they called it Deja vu Blue…
If you search for petrol blue, you will come close to this.
And Pantone’s last color from this list is the beautiful, but oddly named, Crocus.
Have you ever seen a crocus this color? We crave the crocus sightings every spring here in Chicago, and they are always dark purple, gold, or white. A pink one would be nice…
So does anything here make your heart sing? I really love Kashmir, and Bran, but my closet is in a state of emergency, and if I buy anything at all right now, I may cause structural damage to my 55-story building…
love,
Janice
p.s. Ten years ago, I started with a delicious plaid coat, and built a wee travel capsule wardrobe around it! When you travel in cold weather, you spend a huge amount of time in your coat, so this isn’t a crazy thought.
D D says
Love these browns! A nice change from muddy ones.
Rebecca says
Is it just me, or do these colours feel very 1980s? I’m thinking particularly the pale blues and greens. I don’t know that I would wear any of these, although the things that you have picked, Janice, are very lovely.
I’m curious to hear more about the ‘state of emergency’ of your closet.
Julie says
I’m with you on these colours – I personally would only wear the blue. The rest are meh.
Sheila says
It’s possible I might chime in again later, but at first glance the scarf with the Kashmir grouping is the thing that really makes my heart sing! Not quite sure on any colors yet. Though I did see a preview of a spring line which was showing a lot of a color similar to Crocus combined with a peachy color and it was very pretty. Also, I live in Seattle area, and I think we get lighter colored crocuses….
Kristi says
I live just north of Seattle and double checked out my window, my fall crocuses are that color. I think the spring ones are too… but I’d have to wait until spring to double check. I of course love the petrol blue color and the rust and tan. But those all seem very neutral to me and not very colorful. Oh, well!
Janice says
Okay, pink crocuses are real! We need some of those in Chicago…
hugs,
Janice
April in SugarLand says
I tried to comment 3 times Friday. We’ll see if I have better luck today. The only color cool enough for me to wear would be the Kashmir. It seems like a lighter version of the evergreen we saw last week. And that was a color I used to wear. The shirt in the Bran set seemed very similar to the fair isle sweater of a couple weeks ago. So I could potentially wear that too. I do like the darker of the 2 greens, but it would do me no favors.
I loved the groups and method of last week. The groups with beige/winter white are the most appealing to me. And I liked both the evergreen and burgundy. My wish for the next set would be navy and dark denim along with white/cream/beige. And as I have a few pieces in mustard and rust (even thought they don’t flatter, I love them). And maybe a true purple. Not plum. Not lavender or orchid.
How about revisiting this in another month with true red and green as the accents, and then revisit the method again in the spring for the lighter and brighter colors?
I don’t know if I wish you had thought of this method 20 years ago, but how about 8? I’ve been following since 2016. Thanks for your work. I try to guess how you’ll combine pieces. Sometimes I guess correctly and other times I wonder why I missed such an obvious combination!
April in SugarLand says
Ps. We used to have crocuses at the ranch when I was growing up. They were the first sign of spring, sometimes blooming up thru the snow. Ours were yellow like miniature tulips!
Ezzy says
Be still my heart the earrings on the blue and orange!!!! Gorgeous. most of the earrings are lovely that you’ve found Janice, but those two….
Show-stoppers.
I think the blue ones would go well with the fancy lady who was told she looked like a countess in a portrait (one of your start with arts; settlement made history and she bought a place in Paris)
Janice says
They are quite her style…
hugs,
Janice
Pepper from minnesota says
The only color from this set that tempts me to wear it is the De Ja blue. The rest would look nice on Easter eggs lol. And when I’m thinking Halloween, Easter is a far off idea.
Carol B says
The scarf in the Limpet group really calls to me. I could easily see a travel wardrobe based on that combination!