Some women often make mistakes when wearing printed garments, either because the combination is not the right one or they don’t choose the garments they are going to wear well, falling into the frequent habit of overloading them. For these reasons, we will describe some of these common mistakes, and at the same time advise you what to do to wear a fresh, elegant and modern style:
A common mistake is to combine velvet with prints, since it is a very thick fabric which will add volume to the set and will look overloaded, spoiling those garments that can be very beautiful alone. See the importance of choosing textures and tones very well when you want to wear printed clothes.
When choosing textures: When using garments with prints, the mistake is often made when not combining textures and tones well; for example, a bronze sequins texture should not be combined with lemon green, orange, electric blue, or similar tones. Although it is valid to play with prints and textures, it should not be exaggerated with tones, so you should preferably wear basic textures.
Thus, if you wear garments with prints that have sequin textures, combine them with pieces in black leather, which are all-terrain and can be combined with everything, while satin can be combined with a floral print very well, among others, as well as denim, which blends perfectly with colourful prints.
Wear a garment similar to the pattern: When floral prints are worn, for example, in pink, the mistake is made by wearing blouses with flowers in the same tone and larger, which is not convenient because the correct objective of wearing prints on the lower and upper pieces is that they are different, not equal, even if they differ in size.
A correct example of how to wear printed clothes is by combining a plaid blouse with a skirt in animal print or a blouse with horizontal lines, dots or other geometric shapes in small sizes with a floral print skirt to be able to achieve a harmonious style where one garment is the protagonist and the other goes to the background, without attracting so much attention.
An important aspect is to consider the basic characteristics of your body when you have to select the colours of the outfit you want to wear because there are colours that do not go well with all figures and skin tones; for example, when it comes to pastel garments, very white skins are not favoured at all because they look much paler.
Play with very large prints: If you wear garments with prints of very large shapes, a blouse with flowers and pants of enormous points not be combined, for example; that would be to overload the set. There are also different prints that do not combine; therefore, we recommend that when these types of prints are combined, the same range of colours is chosen in basic and light patterns, such as vertical or horizontal lines, fine dots, black and white squares, animal print, among others.
Another case of garment styles with prints, is the “animal print”, which has become one of the most famous and used, staying in time and taken with different types of looks and sets; but it is a mistake to go from top to bottom with this print since it looks very extravagant and exaggerated, and much less it should not be combined with another kind of animal prints such as, for example, the print of a zebra with that of a leopard. This would turn the outfit into something grotesque with too many shapes and colours; so forget about that combination because you will look like a lost person in the jungle.
But this rule does not only apply to garments with “animal print” since when it comes to floral prints, fruits or geometric figures, they should not be combined with each other because they overload the style; and although there are ways to combine different prints in the same set, the ideal one, from our perspective, is to wear a garment printed with another neutral and plain.
The neutral colours that are recommended to combine garments with prints of different sizes and shades are black, dark grey, white, brown, navy, and the ones that less favour the combination are the intense and striking tones in yellow, orange, green, fuchsia, etc.
Another of the mistakes that some women make is to wear very large pieces of garments with exaggerated prints; this, in addition to looking grotesque, makes you miss the opportunity to wear very beautiful styles. Choose the correct size, which fits your figure so that the prints fulfil their function by combining them properly.
Equally, you should take care of the wearing of accessories and makeup so that they do not look exaggerated since if too many or too strong colours are used, it will spoil the image and there will be no harmony. The idea is to look modern, different and chic not to be a carnival of colours and shapes.
ALFA