After the wonderful submissions for our Color Symposium, we decided to ask readers to submit examples of outfits they created using our Fashion 101 Playing with Pattern. Once again we received many great submissions and have definitely been inspired by all of your fabulous pattern mixing!
Here are some of our favorites:
The lovely Kasmira of What I Wore Today sent us several great outfits to pick from. This one wins our vote for both pattern and color mixing!
Loyal reader, Diana of Simple Elegance, mixed multiple patterns and textures but kept it chic by using all cool blues with classic black and white. Beautiful!
We adore the analogous color play in this submission from Danielle of Just My Style. She makes stripes and florals look like the were designed for each-other!
This lovely blue pattern mixing comes from Clare of Between Laundry Days. This is just one of a week’s worth of fabulous pattern mixing from Clare.
We love this beautiful ensemble from reader, Kristen. The floral belt worn as obi and the bit of lace (yes, we count that as a pattern) peaking out make this plaid dress look so sophisticated.
Lovely reader, AJ, sent us this great look. We love the playful mix of pattern and color and this she looks fabulous.
The adorable Andrea of A Cat of Impossible Color sent us incredible mix of all thrifted patterns. The black base in each of the pieces pulls these bold prints together beautifully.
Finally, in true academic fashion, a late but fabulous submission came from Camille of I Get Dressed. We love how she boldly mixed the ruffles and polka-dots with a stripped floral skirt.
Thanks again for all the great submissions. We had so much fun seeing how all of you have been experimenting with pattern and, once again, found ourselves truly inspired!
Some great outfits. I really struggle with he concept.
I struggle with this too. But these look great! (p.s. it might just be me but I’m getting red x’s for some of the pics in this post in both IE and Firefox.)
The outfits I could see were really nice, but a bunch of the pictures didn’t show up.
I had the same problem as Vanessa (and maybe Katie)! I can see Kasmira, AJ and Andrea, but no one else!
In my opinion, Audi from “Fashion for Nerds” (http://geekthreads.blogspot.com/) is the QUEEN of pattern mixing.
Oops… we’re having a technical glitch, folks, but we’ll fix it as soon as we can! Thanks and check back for all the pattern mixing goodness soon!
Thanks so much for using my image! :) I really love Kasmira’s outfit.
Thanks for including me! I love all the outfits – so many inspiring examples of color mixing!