To Covet: Going Grey…as a Neutral
Sometimes, “covet” isn’t a strong enough word to suggest the impression a trend, or an untrendy “fashion idea,” has made on me.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been obsessed with the color grey.
Maybe I’m just copying Elle (who stopped wearing color for a few months in 2009), or maybe I’m exemplifying a subdued time in my life, but whatever the reason, I almost never leave the house without a grey article of clothing, or handbag, or hunk of jewelry.
And I still want more.
Elwood Strange Fruit Jumper Short: $50 at Nimli
Sustainability: made from natural bamboo cotton
Compose Grey Winter Hobo: $48 at Mapel
Sustainability: vegan leather; from a small, local, woman-owned boutique.
STELLA McCARTNEY Pumps:$290 $145 at Yoox
Sustainability: made with eco-leather (genuine leather is banned from all S.McCartney collections)
Nixxi Batwing Top: $130 $91 at Nimli
Sustainability: made with tencel (remember? the more eco-friendly chemical manufacturing process) and wool
Compared to black and brown, grey is just so interesting. It also doesn’t show wear or fading nearly as much as black or brown, and makes colors – especially primary colors and jewel tones – stand out without looking garish.
What do you think of grey as a neutral?
Read more from the Accessories, Awakened Options: Vegan, Clothing, Fashion, Flesh It Out, Shoes category. If you would like to leave a comment, click here: 4 Comments. or stay up to date with this post via RSS
Leave a Comment
If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the form below.
i’ve been keen on using grey as much as possible for a while now, and it started with my first pair of pewter flats.* they were so insanely versatile and i wore them nearly every day. i kind of branched out from there, and now i’m instinctively drawn to anything gray. i love deeper, darker grays, especially with lots of texture.
it’s a little surprising, a hair unconventional. i dig it.
*one of them died a tragic moving-too-many-times-this-summer death, and this totally just prompted me to order a new pair. hello, giftcard hoarding and its rewards. :]
Love the jumper!! I want it! But my skin tone doesn’t look great in grey.
But I do think it’s a neutral.
Kristy´s last blog ..Valentine’s Supper at the Corson Building
I’ve been in love with grey since sometime last spring, part of it was to do with all the nifty fashion being introduced in grey.
And the other half was me accidently putting my peach eye shadow with a charcoal grey liner and going, omg I’m in love.
I like that it’s not as harsh as black, but it can pair so neatly with warmer tones. Though i’m more drawn to charcoals and darker blacks then I am the paler ashy versions.
Well…except for when I want those too. =)
grey is one of my favorite colors. grey, navy, black…. i guess i’m pretty neutral