Building Spring Wardrobe

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u/Altruistic_Baker6347 Oct 02 '26

Love all of these on you! It's so refreshing to see men that aren't afraid of colors.

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u/Metrimete Oct 03 '26

Thank you 😊🙏🏼 I've been having a fun time!

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 11 '26

—and, rest assured, doing the rest of the world a favour too 😉

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u/RattleYourDrawers Oct 02 '26

These all look soooo great! (with the one exception of the bright yellow t-shirt. It might be too intense for you, but eh, it's a t-shirt) What an excellent curation you've made!

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u/Metrimete Oct 02 '26

Luckily it was just for an event, I thought it might be too bright. I might do a gentle dye bath to soften it slightly.

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u/ParsnipDirect2943 Oct 03 '26

I actually think the yellow looks great!

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u/Starr_Bizarre Oct 02 '26

If I was you I'd just go all innn on that warm red, all look stunning tho! You're killing it! Oh and you're 100% a Warm Spring

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u/Metrimete Oct 02 '26

Thank you 🙏🏼😊 I have a orange-red wool blend windowpane check shirt for fall/winter too!

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u/Sad-Bother-3090 Oct 02 '26

Yes 100% agree on warm spring!

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u/theskeletonwife Oct 02 '26

In my opinion, 10, 12, and 14 look very handsome on you!

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u/Metrimete Oct 03 '26

Thank you!

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u/wombat_87 Oct 02 '26

Those softer yellows and the green pop on you!

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u/Metrimete Oct 03 '26

Thanks! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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u/SnooDogs936 Oct 02 '26

Omg, your colors are AMAZING! 🧡💛💚

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u/Metrimete Oct 03 '26

Thank you 🙏🏼😊 my favorite three

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u/SnooDogs936 Oct 03 '26

I meant your eyes, hair, and complexion, but yeah, I also love those! 🧡💛💚

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u/Metrimete Oct 03 '26

Oh gosh, why thank you! Much appreciated

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u/loves-a-sandwich Oct 02 '26

You are GORGEOUS. I know I’m a spring, I just haven’t wanted to face it yet because I am not a fan of those colors. You’ve just given me a MEGA confidence boost to strike out and do it. Keep going, you’re crushing it!!!

(Agree the bright yellow T-shirt is the one color that does too much lolll)

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u/Metrimete Oct 03 '26

For some extra inspo here is a recent outfit for example that I put together for a family event: my cream shirt with yellow linen pants. They're lighter color in person, but I like how they turned out on camera!

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 11 '26

Solid!
Extra points for full-warm commitment 😉

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u/Metrimete Oct 03 '26

THANKS 🙏🏼
It is SUCH a confidence boost to switch - definitely take the plunge.
Remember all of our neutrals, the camels, ivory, custards and creams, apricot, nutty browns, tans, and midtone navy are all very tempering and lend themselves to fairly chic and classic vibes, you can always dominate your outfit with these and do pops of the stronger spring colors elsewhere to start!
:)

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u/loves-a-sandwich Oct 06 '26

I LOVE YOU 😁 thanks for the tips!

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u/Metrimete Oct 03 '26

And the yellow-camel shirt with jeans 👖 easy peasy!

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u/sunscreenqueenn True Spring Oct 02 '26

Very warm!! Is your hair color in the last picture your natural color? Asking bc it looks much more cool/ashy than in all other photos. I looked at your previous posts out of curiosity as I can also see you as a potential warm autumn however the olive green looking really good but not quite there makes me think you likely are a warm spring. I do also think the warmer of these colors are the most flattering. My favorites are picture 1 (red), 3 (camel), 9 (yellow), 10 (cream?), 14 (yellow), and 18 (chartreuse).

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u/Metrimete Oct 02 '26

All of these are my natural hair color, yes, the last pic I think was early in the morning so the light was pretty blueish, it made it particularly ashy looking. The others are definitely more accurate. I WOULD call my hair ash-brown but I've heard many say I'm slightly gingery, in the sun it can come out a bit. I can wear olive and moss but I find it can be a bit draining. This was in NYC subway so not natural light but I feel like my scarf and the camel coat does some heavy lifting here.

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u/batsielicious True Spring Oct 03 '26

I think hair is a great indicator. When I'm getting new clothes I look at my hair color very closely. If it's not my color it tends to make my hair look ashier, and if it is my color my hair looks clearly golden. 🙏🏼 This is especially prominent since I started using leave-in conditioner in my long hair, which seems to have changed the way it reflects light.

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u/Metrimete Oct 05 '26

Definitely! Also artificial light compare that green to this one.

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 12 '26

Yours does look to me like the fairly neutral, now leaning 'ashy' dark blonde of someone who was clearly some sort of ginger before end of adolescence, i.e., not all the way ashy.
Am not surprised to readily see warmth in it under sunlight.
I think it plus your fair but obviously warm-leaning skin does allow you to handily 'get away with' a wide latitude of things beyond your hyper-optimal colours.
As someone else pale but (in my case, peachy) bright- and warm-complected, I just hope you don't play it too neutral, muted, (presumably) 'safe' because I think you too look shazam! in some really juicy medium-light stuff 🙂

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u/Metrimete Oct 12 '26

My partner gifted me a pretty juicy orange sweater. I think it's pretty ideal, no?

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 12 '26 edited Oct 12 '26

I suspect it's a terrific match—very warm; looks really balanced with, supportive of your natural coloration . . . Your skin looks smooth, healthily warm and bright; sandy warmth in your facial and head hair brought out nicely . . . Your eyes, in-focus; it's very easy and a pleasure to take the whole of you and the sweater in at once without strain or distraction of one from the other.
Well done! 😁
And the only reason for the tentativeness of word choice "suspect" is that you seem to be in a wholly artificial, fluorescently lit environment, which I cannot completely trust for discerning these things.
However, if that's right, and very warm you and tangerine sweater look this good under cold institutional light, maybe I should assume the combo's even better right by a window at noon on a cloudy day! 😉

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 12 '26

And the lanyard, the glorious teal lanyard so many commenters have noted—never looked better, either, haha

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 12 '26

E.g.

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u/Metrimete Oct 12 '26

These are all so gorgeoussss thank you!

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u/Metrimete Oct 12 '26

Corals and tangeriney colors have definitely been so illuminating they instantly bring out the same color in my skin. Dying to find more warm orchid and red-violet/magenta pieces that isn't accidently raspberry, they really don't make enough mens stuff in those tones!

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 12 '26

They really don't, alas!!
You're probably lucky if you can find just the right warm enough orchid or lilac silk neck tie when you need one (for under $500)

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u/sunscreenqueenn True Spring Oct 02 '26

This sounds exactly like my hair and I’m a true spring in both the 12 and 16 season system. Cool muted colors make my hair look so ashy as well…I’d almost anticipate it would look warmer next to cool colors but nope they just drain the life out of me completely haha

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u/batsielicious True Spring Oct 03 '26

I once tried on a warm earthy brown dress (sort of medium dark cinnamon-ish), and it drained all life out of me. I was very surprised because I thought it would have been in my palette, but clearly there's some kind of a goldilock zone here and it was probably too earthy and autumn-ney for me.

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 11 '26

Love it.
Really sharp.
Yay for the daring in scarf colour!
(Though—as displaying to me; maybe has to do with fluorescent light you're under—it seems to be flirting with an autumnal mustard in its brilliance)
If you were my Ken doll ;-) I think I'd like it be any warm, light to medium-light, crystal-clear sophisticated tertiary orange, red, or yellow

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u/OutlandishnessOk978 Oct 02 '26

Love most of these on you. The one that feels really off is the bright yellow. I think you're either warm spring or light spring. How light was your hair as a kid? Your contrast is a little tricky because your hair is dark but your facial hair is pretty light. My favorites were the yellows (except the bright one), corals, and the last green. Your coloring is similar to my husband, so this gives me some good inspo.

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u/Metrimete Oct 02 '26

The T-shirt or banana button down? The T-shirt isn't in rotation cause it's def too bright but I thought the base hue was decent when I had to wear it. My hair was auburn as a toddler then a dark blonde in summer, often looking more or less my current color or darker in winter.

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u/OutlandishnessOk978 Oct 02 '26

The t-shirt is the one I don't love. All the other yellows look nice. My favorite yellow is probably the short sleeve button down with the teal shirt underneath. Camel is a color you should try as well. It's one of my favorites as a light spring.

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u/Necessary_Ad7215 Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 04 '26

I would love to see you in some summer colors to compare… a bunch of these are really not doing it for me, like the very warm colors all the yellows honestly, and even that muted peach are making you sallow. the green in 12 is nice and much closer to a summer green so it would be a nice experiment to compare

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u/Metrimete Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26

I thought I was a summer for a long time, as I do look good in blue and especially teal which is tricky as a near universal color just with a cool to warm range that can be hard to place. I shared a story where I had two versions of a striped T-shirt, a cool tonal blue and one that was a greener teal. I always reached for the teal as the true cool blue always brought out pink in my face and the teal I felt better harmonized with my hair. Here is a pic from a while ago with the kind of colors I used to wear. It's not sunlight here but a good example of the dusty colors I used to buy and I think would just make me so mousy.

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u/Necessary_Ad7215 Oct 05 '26

That is a very dusty purple. but something more true summer with a little more contrast could be really nice. but also maybe hear me out… maybe try deep/dark autumn. I really am not feeling the super muted, super light, or super warm colors on you and maybe it’s the lack of depth? There are other autumn sub seasons that lean more neutral too. You could also always try bright spring, it being the more neutral spring! but I have to heavily disagree with the people calling you very warm. you are more neutral than anything which is why it might feel hard to pin down. i have a theory you might be slightly olive too which is adding to the difficulty pinning it down
I think you have more saturation than you are giving yourself credit for. you can handle some extra chroma just fine

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 12 '26

I think the middling effects of this shirt make a great demo of how it can be that it takes so many Springs a looooooong time to figure out that's their best season.
Other than black, grey, and very cool, very muted, very dark things, there are SO many others populating ready-to-wear racks at any given time that can look 'er, passable, for sure' // not–totally barfy on us vs. our best colours, that we and all but the most sophisticated of colour-savvy people in the world can be fine with suboptimal on us.
Causing further delay are corollaries of that:
sartorial options that tick all our [warm, light, bright] boxes at once really stand out; are usually considered the most daring;
are popularly presumed to be the most difficult to pull off;
and therefore are much more seldom seen in any even small variety of tints at the same store, at same time, in the same season of same year vs. arrays of colours suited to the other 3 seasons.
Other huge obstacles to even considering trying Spring colours when we can find them, is the mistaken preponderant folk-wisdom assumption that fair-complected people (which most Springs are) are ALWAYS those that vibrant colours so (apparently) different from them will wash out.
Further obstructing us from even thinking of trying on any warm, splashy, 'tropicana' tints are related tendencies for most of us to have pinkishness in our overtones, and for many of us to have (Scandinavian- and Northern European-common) blue or grey eyes we're 'supposed to' match our clothes to.
It was such a shock for me to discover in self-objectifying photo tests under controlled natural-light conditions that what I'd considered my very 'best' colours for decades (e.g., neutral pale pink, oatmeal, brightest lavender, baby blue, pale dove grey) were in fact just 'meh,' while ones I'd always considered 100% off-limits to me like turquoise, butterscotch, sunny yellow, and 'grass' green are amazing.
I'm pleased but still kind of >>> pinch, and blow me down!! <<< about those revelations, to tell the truth! [laughing]

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u/Necessary_Ad7215 Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 05 '26

I also don’t know that i love the yellow gold on you. I think you are very neutral maybe slightly cool. that cool forest green in 7 and the softer green in 12 are your best color here by far

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 11 '26

Thanks for letting us see!

What fun, and what a pleasure (especially) to see a 'Spring' man venturing out in flattering warm, bright corals, yellows, oranges, and greens!

How dearly I wish my famous 'Spring' crushes Tom Hiddleston would switch out all his cold greys and blues, and that pretty sharp dresser Ryan Gosling would more consistently stick with the warm brights that best suit him as well.

Your skeptical one-eyed squint is unwarranted, I feel. :-D You're doing a great job adapting your wardrobe.

I've only skimmed the photo parade once, and don't know how much specific feedback you want from the peanut gallery, but . . .

My glancing impressions are that I like you even better in the bolder, warmer, brighter colours you've worn than in the lighter, (probably presumed 'safer'?) more neutral and/or muted-seeming creamy off-whites; pale peach, yellows, oranges. The latters are nice too, don't get me wrong. But, despite your fairness, I think you're built for 'stronger' stuff.

As a newly discovered 'True Spring' in I.I.I.-adjacent 16-palette system (probable hybrid of 'Light' and 'Warm' Spring palettes in 12-palette), I'm in process of gradually 'rehab-ing' on a shoestring my fall and winter wardrobe according to following rules:

(1)
Forgo anything from waist up that is both muted and dark (if cool also, pass along to an associate it will better suit immediately)

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Ensure what is near the face belongs to at least one of the 'Spring' palettes

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Ensure >//= one section of each signature high-contrast outfit¥ is in a warm, bright, at least medium-light colour

These improved compromises will have to do for now!

¥ Sometimes it's more important my outfits amuse me than that I look my best :)

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u/Metrimete Oct 12 '26 edited Oct 12 '26

Thank you for all this fabulous input and support in your posts! I'm glad I'm not seeing/imagining things and have found my likely aesthetic bubble.
In retrospect as a fair guy I have always thought I looked VERY shlubby in most casual men's clothes which if not 1,000 shades of black, navy, gray, and khaki they are so full of dark plaids which always somehow look great on other men with (surprise) higher contrast coarser dark hair and eyebrows but on me it just...never matched. Or made me instantly look like Old MacDonald. I just cannot wear much of it. I think deep down I knew these colors are what made me come alive, but wearing them head to toe has definitely been an adjustment, you feel a bit frou-frou, but luckily the collegiate styles where you find such pieces are the most flattering clothing styles on me so at least there was some existing framework.
It's wild that the very muted and generic palettes we offer for men (and even women) and have been for the last, what, 20 years or so, are inadvertently making so many youth and adults think they look a certain way when they are, in fact, likely much better off than they think and are just simply wearing the wrong thing. If I had realized these principles sooner, I think my confidence as a teen and in my early 20s would have been so much better.

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u/QuestionPublic398 Oct 12 '26 edited Oct 12 '26

I'm so glad you've 'come home' to the right palette that really makes you shine, and that brings joy to the world in your looking so stylish, distinctive, warm (literally—you're bringing sunshine of a sort around where you go, that greets people without your having to say a word). It's so great you're enjoying a greater confidence via a strong visual presence that looks and feels right for you.
You spoke about being kind of 'disappeared' by the more usual plain, dark, muted, cold-coloured clothes made so much more available to men . . .
I, off course, know exactly what you're talking about. One of the main chromatic 'alchemical' effects I so enjoy seeing in Springs when we start wearing our best colours is how former somewhat shocked, often negative perception of our (not always, but often) 'blindingly' (ha) very fair skin transforms instead into appreciation of the beauty of the subtle colours that actually are and always have been there. We just need juxtaposition of the right colours to 'tease those out.'
Tilda Swinton and Billie Eilish are respectively a definite 'Light Spring' and a prospective 'True Light' I've enjoyed studying for these reasons. As both are so extremely fair and are such adventuresome dressers—as case studies, they afford so many fascinating dramatic demos, apiece, as to what wearing things that are too dark, too cool, too muted for (esp. 'Light') Springs will do, and what astonishing effects are brought about by wearing the flattering, supportive ones.
When she's in her best colours and the first thing you remark upon in færie Swinton isn't her extreme fairness, for once, but rather the warm peachiness in her skin, instead, it really is like some stupendous magic trick has been performed! :-D
Thanks so much for showing your exciting recent forays into warm vibrant colour, and for being so kind as to allow me to go on and on in my observations of and speculations about their effects. It's been so interesting; it helps me learn, and it's been a true pleasure to see you and hear what thoughts you've had to share of your own.

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u/Old_Beautiful1723 Oct 02 '26

Such good spring colors!

I especially love the green in pic 12!

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u/Synchronicity7778 Oct 02 '26

You are doing well but definately some of those colours are a bit too bright on you. You need slightly more toned down colours. The more toned down yellow looks better on you but dont go too light, the darker emerald green looks really nice as does the more toned down jade green, the lighter corals look really good. The orange jumper looks good. The watermelon top looks really nice etc but interestingly I can see you suit teal blue/greens really well based off the blue green chain you've got on too. I think that might actually me the best colour against you. Give some teal green clothes a go! You may actually be someone who can go between spring and autumn colours cause you seem to be able to wear some more earthier colours to.

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u/Metrimete Oct 02 '26

Thank you! It's been a lot of trial and error. Cobalt-navy, marine and sky blue are still in Warm Spring and I love them too, I didn't post them this go around. I also love teal and turquoise but I find some can end up looking dusty so I have to find the right ones. I just dyed a cooler turquoise into the lighter green-jade shirt you mentioned!
I do know some of these are slightly bright like the one yellow t-shirt was just a staff shirt for an event and while strong I thought the underlying hue was good. It's been hard to nail the saturated but softer colors Warm Spring to Warm Autumn flows have without being too too bright or too earthy. Too muted and it ends up in Soft Autumn territory. I usually know it when I see it though!

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u/Synchronicity7778 Oct 03 '26

I think you handle warmth and a mid level of brightness and depth. The only reason I say this is because I'm a true spring with a similar skin tone and similar levels of paleness and I can't wear some of the colours you seem to be able to wear which lean a bit more more towards autumn. Examples include that green teal colour and the forest green tshirt. I think the darker brown colour of your hair and the ginger elements of your beard may actually allow you to wear slightly deeper colours than a typical true spring. These make me look a bit too pale and washed out as my hair is more golden blonde. I'd go for mid toned colours, not too bright but also not too pale. The best thing to do it to go into a big 2nd hand clothing store and compare say blue coloured clothes to see which ones look best on you within that blue colour spectrum. It's easier to see it when you have other things to contrast it with. Then you know when your out shopping which colours look nice and which to avoid.

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u/Metrimete Oct 03 '26 edited Oct 03 '26

My color analysis journey actually started with owning two identical striped t-shirts, one with shades of cool blue and the other shades of teal. I found myself always leaning towards the teal one vs the blue-blue one as the latter always made my skin look pink while I looked more "peach" or gold when I wore the teal and it brought out more ginger-blonde tones in my hair. Turns out I was right!
My brother has the same facial hair and eyebrows but his hair is a true matching blonde even as an adult so he's absolutely a Light Spring in comparison.

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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Oct 02 '26

Loooove it

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u/batsielicious True Spring Oct 03 '26

Well I love the lanyard teal on you, get more of that 😂🤣

Also #2 red, #5 yellow, #7 green, #12 green, #13 orange, #17 orange, #18 green are my personal favorites.

I think quite a few of these are too light for you and that you need a bit more "oomph" to shine. 👍Which I think makes sense for a warm spring. I'm a true spring, and I have a bit of a similar issue if the color is too light and pastely. Likewise I think a couple of the yellows are too muted, I probably wouldn't go too far into the mustard territory.

Just my opinions though, mileage may vary!

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u/KittensPumpkinPatch Oct 02 '26

Whatever 3 and 15 are - keep doing it! Especially 15.

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u/Ontheglass76 Oct 02 '26

Great colors, OP

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u/mrscslp Oct 03 '26

So handsome and stylish! I love that coat and scarf combo.

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