How to combine colors in clothes: Goldilocks principle

These tips are based on scientific research, will help you to properly combine colors in clothes and always look stylishly.

US researchers decided to find out how the concept of style is associated with a color choice of clothes. In their experimentThe Science of Style: In Fashion, Colors Should Match Only Moderately they are repelled by the two extremes of fashion: a full color match all the elements of the image and, on the contrary, the use of dissimilar colors. Various combinations were evaluated in this range study participants.

In the end, it turned out to be the most fashionable suites, which are not the same color too, but not too different. That is the golden mean.

Here are some examples of failed combinations, according to the study.

But more balanced solutions.

The study authors note that the results are consistent with the principle of Goldilocks (Goldilocks - it English version of the girl in the fairy tale "The Three Bears", which of the three options has always chosen the median, optimal). The essence of the principle that the best is the balance of simple and complex.

So the next time you get up in the mirror, make sure that your clothes not too the same color, but not too different. This will be the Goldilocks principle in action.