WEAR ME BEAUTIFUL

The aim of the study was to enlighten the knowledge of color and its applicationin selection of clothes. Any color in a dress looks nice if it is appropriate to the wearer'sskin tone and it looks becoming. The colors should be right for day wear and eveningwear. This particular book will be presenting findings of both Day and Evening Wear.Color is one of the most important elements in Fashion. Fashion is color; color isfashion, giving feeling and emotion to every changing trend and is an essential part of oureveryday life. Color is perhaps the first element that we register when we view somethingfor the first time. Color is usually first to attract us to clothing. Color selection in clothesis very personal and each of us has a color or colors in which we think we look best.It was observed by the researcher through the pilot study that the age groupbetween 20 to 30 years in women is very crucial, they have their own wardrobe demands,their choices in color selection are random and based on trends and mostly on othersopinion. They need color guidance for day wear and evening wear. However, thisreference is applicable to women above 30 years of age as well. Hence, under the study,'A STUDY OF COLOR SELECTION FOR CLOTHING AS PER SKIN-TONE'(Reference of Skin-Tones taken from Donna Fujji's Skin Tone palette of 10 Warmand 10 Cool skin colors).I have tried to give proper color palette for each of the sevenidentified skin tone from the sample size of 500 women with a vocabulary of 101 colors(Reference taken from Jean Allen's 29 basic and 101 Color Vocabulary) which werematched with Pantone Shade Cards and same were dyed in cotton and silk fabrics for thisstudy by the Researcher.22One of the main objectives of this research is to address misconceptions that women haveregarding skin tones and suitable colors for clothing for day wear and evening wear andprovide an opportunity of enhancement of self-image.Since the study is based on skin tones of the women, firstly each of the 500women's skin tone was identified with skin tone scale and with the data analysis sevenskin tones were identified on the majority ratio. Here the Hair color and color of eyesbeing constant as black brown. The second aspect was the vocabulary of color; it wasmatched with Pantone Shade Cards then dyeing them in exact shade in cotton and silkfabrics.This book hopes to provide suggestions, information and an opportunity to everywoman in India to enhance self-image, look beautiful and attractive in the colors shewears