Combining Colours, Neutrals, and Accessories | Soft Summer

We combine colours from the Soft Summer seasonal colour palette to create beautiful outfits with apparel, jewelry, footwear, and handbags.

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► E-Books for the 12 Seasons (30 page download, available worldwide) on the 12 BLUEPRINTS learning platform:

► Cosmetics and Fabric Colours Sets for 12 Seasons under Shop:

► Blog post:

► Sci\ART- based colour fans and palettes for the 12 Seasons:

► Global Sci\ART-based Colour Analyst Directory at Chrysalis Colour:

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► TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
02:06 Soft Summer E-book cover and Table of Contents
04:46 Soft Summer 1: Neutrals and Colour Ranges
10:44 Soft Summer 2: Casual Neutrals with accessories
15:26 Soft Summer 3: 9 to 5
20:11 Soft Summer 4: Weekend to work
25:10 Soft Summer 5: Scenes in a restaurant
30:20 Soft Summer 6: Colour + texture + shape + shine
34:06 Soft Summer 7: Mix and match 1
38:15 Soft Summer 8: Mix and match 2
39:14 List: Combining Soft Summer Colours
39:20 Outro

► Image sources from URStyle (to find specific items in the images, follow the link below and scroll down to the Comments section, select Used In Set):

Sailboat, Photo by Valeria Terekhina on Unsplash:

12 Season E-Books:

Soft Summer 1: Neutrals and colour ranges

Soft Summer 2: Casual neutrals with accessories

Soft Summer 3: 9 to 5

Soft Summer 4: Weekend to work

Soft Summer 5: Scenes in a restaurant

Soft Summer 6: Colour + texture + shape + shine

Soft Summer 7: Mix and match 1

Soft Summer 8: Mix and match 2

[ChristineScaman]

Welcome to our video 🌻 My thanks to a viewer for our theme today. Now that people compliment her appearance on the train, she shared, “I stand out more in my muted colours than I ever did in my brights!”
How inspiring! Wearing our own colours and being visible, beautiful, and enough, as ourselves.
I hope you enjoy the video and find many colour experiments in your wardrobe that become brand new looks.

[byssabyss]

Wow! I am just at the beginning, but I just want to say how stunning you look! The slightly windswept softness and assymetrical lines of your hair style here is really doing something magical to your features, and I love that soft teal on you.

[byssabyss]

If I were Soft Summer, I would relish a full-on Lord of the Rings elf look, with a mixture of misty greys. I hope at least some of you Summers are taking advantage of that potential.

[kathleenreese]

Beautiful color combinations! I love it when a scarf combines all the colors in the outfit.

[cinnamonswords]

There is such a duality to Soft Summer. It feels serene and sophisticated simultaneously. One moment, the colors cause me to imagine a lovely day in a forest overflowing with moss and mushrooms. There is a still blue-grey lake nearby with grey-green turtles and a heron peeking out of the cattails. Another moment, I am in a grandiose library of a centuries-spanning university. I am surrounded by wisdom, intelligence, artistry, and luxury.  

Great video, Christine. Can't wait until the next one! In your experience, how common are Soft Summers? It’s interesting because soft colors are what have been trendy for a while now (such as the so called “Quiet Luxury” colors) and so I wonder how often we see them on actual Soft season people. Also, as you’ve probably heard, Pantone’s color of 2025 is the soft “Mocha Mousse.” Very interesting.

[daniyyel]

I’m a male soft summer, I can’t tell you how much iv learnt about my colouring from your vids. I was always trying to make bold bright colours work but ended up being drained, now I have built a soft, muted wardrobe where everything works together. So grateful Christine 😊

[ritaaldonso]

This was so perfect. You truly are an inspiration 🥰

[thefarmerswifecanada]

I just found out I am a soft summer. I always thought I was a winter, but I always knew that I feel best in cool, muted colours. 😊

[LiaAndrews]

Soft Summer is such an elegant, soothing season. Since you hypothesized Angelina Jolie as a Soft Summer I am seeing it more and more. She is so gorgeous it can be difficult to see a "bad" color on her, but as she matures it was interesting to see winter white making her look gaunt. As a Bright Winter, winter white wakes me up when I haven't slept, but it is interesting to see it have the opposite effect on other colorings. This color exploration is infinitely fascinating to me ❤
Thank you Christine for opening a world up to me. You are such a master of this! Your constant scientific interrogation of the subject is what keeps this evolving.

[Flame-starr]

Great video as always!

So excited for "Your Best Greens" and "Your Best Reds" videos! They teach so much and they're by far the most helpful to really understand the subtle nuances between all the seasons best colours.

Thank you kindly for the work you do, Christine! Also, I miss your podcast Chrysalis Colour, last episode was last year October. Neutral combinations for Springs was just phenomenal, really helped me understand what neutral truly means for Springs. <3

[sandimcdougall]

Thank you so much for this video Christine from your Fargo ND soft summer Sandi. I have learned so much from it! You have given me a refreshing lift to color combos.

[tatjanapetrevska]

Wonderful, I enjoyed it as always! Thank you very much for YOUR work, I really appreciate it! And thanks for the e-book!

[haleypowell]

I always love your videos! You explain things beautifully and I enjoy your outfit examples and hearing you talk through them. I'm looking forward to True Summer, but I know each one between now and then will be a joy to watch!

[charlestonscnative]

I have purchased your e-book chapter for Light Summer and I am looking forward to completing it!

[jk]

I feel like every representation of soft summer clothes underestimates how warm and dark most soft summers are. Primarily cool, to be sure, but way closer to neutral than we are imagined as. A lot of greys are too light and too cool compared to a deep taupe or a warmer grey. A deep cool brown is perfection.

[lauriemcilrath]

I love the 3rd set of curated look. I often think I am boring because I, now that I am older, tend to wear more neutral soft summer palette and don't go crazy with the pop of color.

[MarleeMayI]

I was typed a soft summer, but have struggled finding much out about how to approach it, so I was so excited for this video.

[suzinshaw]

I'm a soft summer and I appreciate the visuals, thank you! We have a long, cold winter here and I liked the way you said that some soft summer colours can look floaty together. It's true and not every colour in my palette is going to translate well in a knee length puffy parka! (think muted marshmallow)

[laughloveshop]

Thank you, as always, for your insight, Christine. 💗 I’ve watched this video probably 4-5 times now and would like to share my thoughts as a SSu.

This is just my perspective on how I work my own wardrobe, so nobody come at me 😂 I’ve been a Christine fan since before she was on YouTube back in the blog-only days. So this isn’t mean spirited.

First thought: These are not my favorite colors of my pallet. Maybe it’s because I don’t love blue. I know. Shock and horror at a summer who doesn’t care for blue 😂 But I’m a SSu with brown hair and hazel-green eyes, and I think that might be why I prefer our taupes and greens over our greys and blues. I’m also one of those SSu’s you mentioned who at first glance might look like and autumn.

Second thought: I LOVE that pinkish-burgundyish fur coat!!! 😍

Third thought: I’m definitely not afraid of a lot of colors all at once. To borrow from Mary Poppins, “The more I [color] the more I’m a merrier me!” However, I like to have once piece that combines the colors. A patterned scarf, or skirt, or kimono, or even a necklace. I agree with you on the boringness of color blocking, but even the outfit with the grey dress, red back, and green shoes feels too color block-y to me. Now, make that scarf one with all those colors in it, and we’re soaring.

Fourth thought: why does combining my taupes and greys always feel disjointed to me? Like something in my mind is saying, “Grey with brown looks sloppy and unintentional.” 🤷🏽‍♀️ I’ve yet to figure that one out.

Fifth thought: The landscape I think of for myself as a SSu is a misty forest. A River running through it and flowers growing on the bank. Just touches of sky peaking through the branches overhead.

My biggest takeaway from this video is Rule 2: combine warm and cool colors. Easy if I’m combining blue and warm red. More difficult if I’m combining warm red with mauve. Any ideas?

Thanks again for your insight! I really do appreciate your perspective and experience. 💗

- Mandy

[EmL-kggn]

This video was so interesting!! If you ever make ones like this for the other seasons I’d love to watch them