Black clothing, when worn as a solid, is powerful. White garments, when worn as a solid, are youthful. Black and white fabrics, when worn together, are simply stunning.
The color black relates to the hidden, the secretive and the unknown. Emotional and mysterious. Black is the absorption of all color and the absence of light. White is the color at its most complete and pure, the color of perfection. White is totally reflective, awakening openness, growth and creativity.
Black hides, while white brings to light. What black covers, white uncovers. Two opposites that when put together in fabrics, meshes together like no other colors!
Black and white: haute couture at its height!
White Fun Fact: White is an achromatic color, literally a “color without color”, composed of a mixture of frequencies of the light of the visible spectrum. It is one of the most common colors in nature, the color of sunlight, snow, milk, limestone. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity and citizenship.
Black Fun Fact: Black is the darkest color, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light. Black is considered a primary color, used in color printing to produce all colors (along with cyan, yellow and magenta).
Black and white: opposites that attract!
Black and white worn together is both tough and tender, regal and royal, soft and hard. Black and white garments. when mixed, are both feminine and masculine, creating a fabulous look in a category all its own!
Black Fun Fact: Black was one of the first colors used by artists in Neolithic cave paintings. In the 14th century, black began to be worn by royalty, the clergy, judges and government officials in much of Europe.
Black became a high fashion color in the 20th century. The color black rocks the catwalk with the same sense of style and mystery as a slinky black cat!
White Fun Fact: White was one of the first colors used by Paleolithic artists, they used calcite or chalk, sometimes as a highlight, along with a charcoal and red and yellow ochre in their vivid cave paintings.
The color white, when worn strutting down the catwalk, lights up the room, like an all white cat.
Sometimes, the black cat just needs to play with the white cat!
Catwalk culture! Cool, calm, classy!
Just like clothes themselves, colors conjure up images all their own.
Positive and Negative Traits of the Color Black:
- Perfection
- Comfort
- Strong
- Contained
- Formal
- Sophisticated
- Seductive
- Mysterious
- Endings
- Beginnings
- Aloof
- Depressing
- Pessimistic
- Secretive
Positive and Negative Traits of the Color White:
- Innocence
- Purity
- Cleanliness
- Equality
- Complete
- Whole
- Simplicity
- Immaculate
- Neat
- Sterile
- Stark
- Fastidious
- Empty
- Boring
Black and white, when blended together in clothes so fine, looks just right!
A fashionable, head turning, sensational sight!
Black and white mixed is innocent yet seductive! Think the “little black dress”and the wedding dress honeymoon together! Definitely a color scheme that works all year round, no matter the season, no matter the weather.
Black and white stuns when tossed together!
The color black represents mystery, power and control. While the color white represents innocence, equality and unity!
Both unique and united, black and white, you can’t fight it!
I tip my hat off to black and white fashion!
“What are you going to wear tonight?”
“I haven’t decided. I think I’ll wear white.”
“You’ll be a beautiful sight.”
“And you?”
“I was thinking I’ll go black.”
“Sexy. You’ll cause the room a heart attack!”
“Do you want to go together?”
“Sure. We’ll stick shoulder to shoulder all night and look like we’re wearing black and white!”
“Brilliant!’
“Remember, I’m always right!”
“Yes. We will be a beautiful sight!”
Author Nancy Mangano is the author of two riveting Natalie North murder mystery novels, A Passion for Prying and Murder Can Be Messy. Nancy has woven her love of detective work and her passion for fashion into her books. Visit Nancy on her author website www.nancymangano.com, her fashion/style/beauty/book blog www.passionforprying.wordpress.com, Twitter @nancymangano and her author Facebook fan page Nancy Mangano https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nancy-Mangano/362187023895846?fref=ts
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