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Colour Matching

Expecto_Patronum

I'm not sure whether this is an autism thing or just a me thing but I've recently realised I really struggle to know whether colours go together or not. It's starting to really restrict what I wear as I tend to stick to things like grey, dark blue and black which largely go with anything. I recently bought a purpley coat which I really love but I struggle to know what I can wear it with as I don't know what other colours it goes with. How can people just tell what goes together and why can't I? Anyone else struggle with this?

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  • I don't think it is an autism thing. I am the opposite. I have to check if a top goes with trousers and can't wear things that don't go. I often have to reject two pale colours together. It is the same with socks. I tend to match them with my top, so I have some greys browns, blacks for when nothing goes. As others have said if you stick to black, brown, grey trousers then it is easier to find something that goes.

  • in reply to Homebird

    It may not be an autism thing. Or it could also be one of those autism things that people are either really good at or really can't do. Who actually knows. I wonder what it is that causes someone to be good at matching colours.

  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    Maybe it's about how good your colour vision is? I've got very good colour vision, I'm one of those people who drive others mad comparing different shades of white on a paint chart. Whilst I was always good with colours, what suited me was always a different thing, I'd love a colour and then wonder why when I wore it I looked like death warmed up!, Learning to match colours to what suits you is a different skill altogether I think. Colours also change depending on what light you and they're in, in the tropics and equatorial regions many colours will look more saturated as there's more infra-red light than in the north or south where the light is more in the ultraviolet.

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  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    Maybe it's about how good your colour vision is? I've got very good colour vision, I'm one of those people who drive others mad comparing different shades of white on a paint chart. Whilst I was always good with colours, what suited me was always a different thing, I'd love a colour and then wonder why when I wore it I looked like death warmed up!, Learning to match colours to what suits you is a different skill altogether I think. Colours also change depending on what light you and they're in, in the tropics and equatorial regions many colours will look more saturated as there's more infra-red light than in the north or south where the light is more in the ultraviolet.

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