WARDROBE
Clothing and accessories enhance the portrait as part of the palette and the story.
Plan the color story together.
Choosing something like denim/blue and adding another color you love is an easy place to start. Or seasonal colors. Pick two or three if you are a large group, and have fun with it.
Unexpected tan with red, lending the gray and blue to become the neutral here.
Early Spring walk on the rail trail. Reds appear in Dad’s shirt and Mother’s and daughter’s shoes. Everyone wears denim. Daughter’s jacket and mom’s dress are black, topped off with son’s forest green hoodie. Pop of color only seen in daughter’s top is a golden yellow. Kudos to this crew!
Autumnal browns and blues with a pop of cranberry. I knew how this field would look Thanksgiving week, and I chose their natural surroundings as the inspiration for their wardrobe direction.
Black jackets and blue jeans are the neutral in this shot, giving the child center stage in hot pink!
This family started with the dress in the center, and then pulled pieces based on it.
Go monochrome: This family knocked it out of the park with yellow and gold everywhere!
Making white work!! Red, white, and blue with a twist.
Pastels with the pop of color in mom’s embroidered dress.
KEEP PATTERNS SMALL.
NO BOLD GRAPHICS OR BRANDING PLEASE.
TRY IT ON - try on, iron, and de-lint anything that needs it.
BE YOURSELVES, whether you go casual or formal, wear what you love.
You’ll enjoy these images for a long time.