Pink and red hearts for Valentine's Day? How To Sort And List Clothes Colours For The Year



What colours can you wear to change with the seasons?

Sort your wardrobe by colour or season. List your outfits by themes and patterns. Then you won't be hunting for hearts, as I did, on Valentine's day.


Match the colours to the season, the day, or your birthstone.


Spring Colours

Pastels

Pastel pink

Yellow daffodils for March, with green and white


Summer colours

Vibrant colours

Pillar box red. Emerald green. Royal blue.


June roses: red, yellow, pink.


Autumn Colours & Patterns

Autumn or Fall: 

Rusty orange or brick red, mustard yellow, khaki green.

Leaf patterns


Winter Colours

Winter white

Green trees and plants

Mistletoe, holly, fir tree

Santa and santa hats in red and white


Seasonal events

JANUARY-February

Chinese New Year. (lunar, dates vary) Red.

February 14  

Pink for Valentine's Day

Pink hearts

Red hearts

Any hearts

March

Mid-March (variable date) Hindu Holi Festival of Spring/Colours/Love. Also celebrated by Indians, Nepalese, some Sikhs and some Buddhists and communities worldwide.

Celebrated with colours from paints or cloured powders on skin and old clothes, preferably from flowers and herbs which were orginally thought to prevent or alleviate illnesses during the changing weather.

April

May

June

July 1st, Canadian National day, red and white, red maple leaf on white.

August

Red and white for the Singapore flag on August 9th.


September

October 31 Halloween - pumpkins and orange, or black, or purple

November

December

Christmas colours: red, white, green.


January


Birthstones

January - garnet. 

February - amethyst. 

March - aquamarine. 

April - diamond. 

May - emerald.

June - alexandrite, pearl.

July - Ruby.

August - peridot (modern); sardonyx (traditional). 

September - sapphire (easy to remember alliteration).

October - Opal (easy to remember alliteration); tourmaline (green).

November - citrine (browny yellow); topaz (reddish).

December - turquoise, tanzanite.


Useful Websites

Useful pictures in:

https://www.americangemsociety.org/birthstones/

https://news.thediamondstore.co.uk/gemstones-birthstones/birthstones/which-is-my-birthstone/

About the author of this blog post


About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

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Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When



 



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