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[pearl]

So, I have a magenta-coloured skirt. What colour should the top be?

Yellow?
Blue-ish?
Or Purple-silver?

I'm thinking the silver, with the blue used for cuffs, collar, and overlapping panel. Or the blue as main and silver as accents.
But I'm also notorious for having dubious taste, and I don't want to accidentally blind people.

Comments

[From: doushkasmum.livejournal.com]

Which colour looks best against your skin? They all work with the skirt fabric. Which one makes *you* look best?

[From: pearl.livejournal.com]

I'd lean towards the purple/blue choices, since I *think* I'm considered to have a cool skin tone.

So, which of the blue-purple, and silver-purple would you choose?

[From: doushkasmum.livejournal.com]

I would go with the blue (and I do, in fact have a dress in this colour combination myself, a 1920's frock 8-> )

[From: http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

iI like both the blue and the silver but prefer the blue. I'm not sure how yellow would work on you. Which looks best on you?

[From: pearl.livejournal.com]

Which looks best on you?

I'm really not sure.

The yellow doesn't photograph well, but it's a shot silk, with a magenta warp which is why I think I keep on looking at it. I don't think it would look very good on me though.

[From: http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

It's a lovely silk but I'm worried it might make you look jaundiced since your hair is quite light.

Yellow is just a really hard colour for most people.

[From: hometime.livejournal.com]

I like the bluish best.

[From: omnot.livejournal.com]

Lovely fabrics you have there. In my opinion, you have two options; a) To suit the skirt, make the top with the yellow/magenta with blue trim. b) To suit you, make the top blue and trim in silver.

[From: pearl.livejournal.com]

b) To suit you, make the top blue and trim in silver.

Oooh, that is an idea. Thanks. :)
(If the link works, this (http://jikimi.cha.go.kr/english/search_plaza_new/ECulresult_Db_View.jsp?VdkVgwKey=18,01140000,11&queryText=((V_ENO%20%3E=114)%3Cand%3E(V_ENO%20%3C=%20114))&requery=0) is the top I'm planning to make.)

[From: (Anonymous)]

I wouldn't go for the silver, the combination makes both colours look washed out and drab

[From: katmoonshaker.livejournal.com]

Personally... I absolutely adore the yellow and the others seem to me to wash out the magenta. But it's much much much harder to make a decision based on pictures on the web as opposed to seeing the fabrics in the light held against your body. It also depends on what you're making them into... IOW for modern I'd go with the silver first, blue second; for 18th C - 19th C I'd go with the blue first, silver second; for anything earlier I'd go with gold first, silver second, blue third... albeit I have a hard time judging on those without seeing the fabric.

But if only one fabric is shot, I'd go with it. Just saying.

[From: cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

My impression from what little I know of Korean costume is that a Korean would favor the yellow. But your skin tone would probably work better with the blue, and that's also a legitimate period color choice so far as I know. I'd go with the blue if I were you.

[From: pearl.livejournal.com]

It depends... the blue is the closest I could come up with for the colour worn by palace maids (at least in the 18-19th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seoul-Gyeongbokgung-Chinjamrye-01.jpg), and in a bunch of period dramas, which is really the best I can work from without learning Korean.)

The magenta skirt is wrong, but it was the cheapest second-hand sari I could find, so I'm trying to work around that.
The only hitch is that at the end of the 16th century, a dangui (the curved-bottom over-jacket) was only just beginning to be worn, so another option is a hip-length jacket. And there is a gorgeous lined silk jacket that I have in (http://jikimi.cha.go.kr/english/search_plaza_new/ECulresult_Db_View.jsp?VdkVgwKey=18,01140000,11&queryText=((V_ENO%20%3E=114)%3Cand%3E(V_ENO%20%3C=%20114))&requery=0) mind (http://jikimi.cha.go.kr/english/search_plaza_new/ECulresult_Db_View.jsp?VdkVgwKey=18,01140800,11&queryText=((V_ENO%20%3E=114)%3Cand%3E(V_ENO%20%3C=%20114))&requery=0). (If the links don't work, go here (http://jikimi.cha.go.kr/english/search_plaza_new/ESearch_Detail.jsp), and check the box and type in "Designated Number from 114 to 114." and click on 114, and 114-8 for photos.)

[From: cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

And there is a gorgeous lined silk jacket that I have in mind.

Sweet! Do you plan to emulate the brocade insets and, if so, what are you going to use?

I'm curious as to why you say the magenta skirt is wrong. Too modern (aniline dyed) a color?

[From: pearl.livejournal.com]

There are almost-identical, two-colour tops that don't use brocade. It's just the famous brocaded one that is in all of the costume books is easier to find. :)

I have some brown, viscose-y brocade with a similar flowery pattern though, but I think I really just want the solid colours.

[From: cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

Hard to go wrong with solids. :-)

[From: felinophile.livejournal.com]

I vote blue. I have absolutely no idea if it's appropriate for Korean, but it's the most eye bleeding choice on your list. This is a Good Thing tm.

[From: fiberferret.livejournal.com]

I vote blue, but what is this being made into?

[From: pearl.livejournal.com]

A late 16th century hanbok.

If you scroll down to the third image here (http://londonkoreanlinks.net/2007/11/05/hanbok-day-at-the-va/), and ignore the hair of the mannequin on the left, that's about the look I'm aiming for. (Ignore the hair because I'm finding it difficult dig up any information about 16th century hairstyles, and the big hair thing seems based on 18th century artwork. I may be wrong though.)

[From: cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

I note that the mannequin you've pointed out is wearing blue, though a much richer, deeper blue than you have available.

Still, I think the blue will look better on you than the silverish color, and I agree with the commenter who thought that using the silver for trim would make the ensemble look washed-out. That's not just a modern comment--the examples of 16th c costume you've posted all seem to favor warm colors and dark colors (or whites) rather than muted ones.

[From: cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

I've got to admit, the blue with the magenta makes the nicest combination in my opinion. The magenta brings out the shot threads in the blue, and the blue makes the magenta look pinker.