Lesson 2 Express Once you decide on a color, you may discover the

Totally You! color wheel useful to find other colors that go well

together. There are three simple ways to use the

Wide pants, a striped shirt, a baseball cap: walk
color wheel: combining analogous colors, choosing
down the street and you'll see what's in fashion.
complementary colors, and mixing together analogous
Teens, like adults, tend to follow popular trends.
and complementary colors.
That's fine if you're happy with the current style, but

you can also create your own style if you're not.

The color wheel
Think of Steve Jobs, and a figure of a man wearing
1. Analogous colors
a black shirt and blue jeans might pop into your
Pick one color on the color wheel, skip one, and
head. Likewise, you can showcase your own charm
choose the next one.
and individuality with your own unique style, which
2. Complementary colors
can become a part of your personal image: a Select two colors on opposite sides of the color

signature style. Here are some tips from three wheel.

teenage fashion leaders on how to experiment and 3. Split complementary colors

find your own style. Choose two analogous colors and the

complementary color of the one that is found

Have Fun with Colors! - Amanda Brown between them.

What is your favorite color? Do you often wear

fashion items in that color? As for me, my favorite Combining analogous colors is one of the easiest

color is green, but I felt it did not go well with my ways of matching colors that will give you an

skin tone, so I used to avoid wearing it. One day, I elegant look, for example, a yellow shirt on top of

green pants. Choosing complementary colors, like

realized that green has many shades, so I
wearing a green skirt with red shoes, creates a bold
experimented with various shades of green and
impression. Choosing a mixture of analogous and
eventually, I found that a deep green helps me look
complementary colors together, called split
great. If you like a certain color, you can try various
complementary colors, can be tricky but results in a
shades like I did, and find one that suits you.
calmer look than a combination of complementary

colors. Unless your signature style is to wear colors

that clash, using the color wheel will help you

choose colors that are natural and pleasing to the

eye.
You Don't Need Many Clothes! - Dan Oakley Read Culture

I spend a lot of time at school in my uniform, so I Where You Live, What You Wear

don't pay too much attention to what I wear. But Climate plays a key role in what we wear, and the
there is one thing I often wear outside of school: a
way we live as a whole. In the Netherlands, for
black striped shirt. It's very casual with a simple
example, where one fourth of its land area is located
design. I like to wear it under a denim shirt, a
below sea level, an interesting form of shoes
leather jacket, or a cardigan. Putting on clothes in
developed as a way of getting around the muddy
layers like this keeps my style fresh even though I
roads. Wooden shoes, called klompen, were the
don't have a lot of clothes. Mixing and matching
perfect tool to keep farmers' feet dry while working
clothes is a lot of fun! My point is: If you have a

favorite fashion item, and it goes well with your in wet areas. A few artistic souls went further to

other clothes, you can create a new outfit every begin dancing in klompen, which makes a pleasant

single day. series of rhythms, eventually providing a basis for

modern tap dancing.

Invest in Your Glasses! - Jake Peavy The Inuit had to fight the cold and the wind, and
One of the simplest ways to develop your own
came up with the idea of wearing a heavy jacket
style is to pay attention to accessories like shoes,
called an anorak. It was originally made from seal
hats, glasses, or watches. I spend a lot of time
skin, and its surface had to be cared for regularly
choosing my eye glasses because they can be an
with fish oil for constant water resistance. Now, it is
important part of my look. When I choose frames, I
a modern winter necessity, coming in a variety of
think of my face shape. Since my face is rather
styles and colors.
angular, I usually choose round frames. If your face
Pajamas have followed a similar route to become
is round, however, you may look better in angular or

square frames. Here's another important tip. People trendy fashion wear in the bedroom or on the

tend to make purchasing decisions about frames in streets. In India, where staying cool is very important,

terms of material or color, but not many think about a pair of wide pants made of light and soft fabric

their eyebrows. Eyebrows can be so expressive, and seemed to be the perfect way to stay cool. The
covering them with your frames may hide the British rulers at the time liked the idea and spread
feelings you express, eventually making you look
the Indian pajamas to the rest of the world, helping
strict.
them to arrive in our bedrooms. The old saying that
BEFORE The frames cover the eyebrows, making
necessity is the mother of invention does make
him look strict.
sense, and some good inventions seem to spread
AFTER The frames do not cover the eyebrows,
quickly and easily.
making him look less strict.