The Research And Application Of Complementary Colors Concept In The Dress

With the development of the times and the continuous progress of people’s thoughts, therequirement people have towards their own clothing style is not just confined to keepingwarm in cold weather. Rather the cutting of clothes that is catching on, the texture or thecolors used in making them have all been changing continuously. It is color that is the firstimpression an outfit gives to other people. Moreover, how the different colors match togethercan also play an important role in deciding its own attractiveness. We can evaluate a person’scultural qualities or artistic accomplishments through the way they dress. So, the perfectbetween colors is an important part of the clothing, which can display a person’s style andelegance, whereas unsatisfying match between colors will show a sense of vulgar anddisorder.But the traditional method of matching similar colors together, which has been thought tobe safe and slightly mediocre at the same time, can no longer meet the individual needs of thepeople, making designers trying new patterns in color matching. Giving full play to theircreativity and using mashup, designers start trying those color matchings which were notcommonly used or allowed by the traditions and combine those colors with much differencetogether. This, as a result, updates the original color characteristics and clothing personality,brings a new shining point to clothes and produces a brilliant visual impact, which cansuccessfully draw others’ attention and show the unique creativity clothes can have.Nowadays we seem be entering the "complementary colors" era. Besides clothing, alldesigning fields including Beauty, advertising design, painting and home are all trying tocreate a new world with outstanding matching between contrast colors. In this paper, we willanalyze the evolutionary process and reasons of the popularity with contrast colors, deeplydiscuss the manifestation and applications the idea of complementary color has in clothingdesign and predicts how this idea will be used and develop in the future.