French Women Over 60 Only Combine Colours These 6 Ways (And Never These 3)
Elegant After 60
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French Women Over 60 Only Combine Colours These 6 Ways (And Never These 3)
Why do some colour combinations make women over 60 look fresher, while others quietly add years? The answer starts in a Paris tapestry factory in 1824. Chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul was told his black wool looked weak. The dye was perfect; it only looked weak because of the colours beside it. His 1839 law of simultaneous contrast explains why every colour changes its neighbour.
Nearly two centuries later, researchers working with Chanel's skin research centre found that facial contrast fades with age, and that faces with more contrast look younger. Put those two discoveries together and you have the logic behind how elegant French women combine colour.
In this video: tone-on-tone with a step, navy with cognac, grey with powder pink, olive with camel, Chanel's 1957 beige-and-black slingback rule, and denim with écru. We also cover the three combinations to avoid: the exact match, the muddy middle, and two brights at equal strength.
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1. Porcheron, Mauger & Russell (2013), Aspects of Facial Contrast Decrease with Age and Are Cues for Age Perception, PLOS ONE
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
2. Facial Contrast Is a Cross-Cultural Cue for Perceiving Age (2017), Frontiers in Psychology
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
3. ScienceDaily: New sign of aging: Lessening contrast in facial features
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
4. Michel Eugène Chevreul, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_...
5. Georges Roque, Chevreul's Colour Theory and its Consequences for Artists
https://www.colour.org.uk/wp-content/...
French Women Over 60 Only Combine Colours These 6 Ways (And Never These 3)
Elegant After 60
3,177 views
French Women Over 60 Only Combine Colours These 6 Ways (And Never These 3)
Why do some colour combinations make women over 60 look fresher, while others quietly add years? The answer starts in a Paris tapestry factory in 1824. Chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul was told his black wool looked weak. The dye was perfect; it only looked weak because of the colours beside it. His 1839 law of simultaneous contrast explains why every colour changes its neighbour.
Nearly two centuries later, researchers working with Chanel's skin research centre found that facial contrast fades with age, and that faces with more contrast look younger. Put those two discoveries together and you have the logic behind how elegant French women combine colour.
In this video: tone-on-tone with a step, navy with cognac, grey with powder pink, olive with camel, Chanel's 1957 beige-and-black slingback rule, and denim with écru. We also cover the three combinations to avoid: the exact match, the muddy middle, and two brights at equal strength.
#frenchstyle #over60style #womenover60 #frenchwomen #colourcombinations #parisianchic #agelessstyle #fashionover60 #capsulewardrobe #elegantstyle #frenchchic #styletips
1. Porcheron, Mauger & Russell (2013), Aspects of Facial Contrast Decrease with Age and Are Cues for Age Perception, PLOS ONE
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
2. Facial Contrast Is a Cross-Cultural Cue for Perceiving Age (2017), Frontiers in Psychology
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
3. ScienceDaily: New sign of aging: Lessening contrast in facial features
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
4. Michel Eugène Chevreul, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_...
5. Georges Roque, Chevreul's Colour Theory and its Consequences for Artists
https://www.colour.org.uk/wp-content/...