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much, much later. Equally for those of you rich enough to buy a garment and upon finding it unsuitable color- wise, to throw it away or give it away, you may well fall back on the experimentation of random selections and/ or impulse buying, But for the others, who must balance space limitations and money, it would pay you well, to heed the laws of color and to plan your wardrobe with great care.

Let us scientifically analyze and place all types on the color circle. In basic color theory, those colors opposite each other on the wheel are called complements. When placed side by side, they enhance each other. Red is complementary to green, yellow to purple, orange to blue, red-orange to blue-green, etc. This would be true whether the color is pure or tinted with white or grayed or shaded. For instance a green scarf does wonders for a red dress. Generally a single complement s used. However, a "split-complement "can do the same thing to a lesser degree. With a red dress, you could wear yellow-green and blue-green at the same time, as a print might be. Also a "double-split-complement" en- hances each other to a still lesser degree. A red-violet and red-orange are helped by yellow-green and blue-green. Only in this way can colors help each other. To see this more clearly, try putting a blue or yellow next to a red. Both colors are dulled by their proximity.

Since in light theory, the primaries combine to form white, any color will go with white, and in the pigment theory, the primaries combine to form black, any color will go with black as well as gray.

Graying or tinting a color to a GREAT degree allows it to be used side by side regardless of it's position on the wheel. Generally it is well to use complements in the costume itself, and to use the basic color to either enhance or subdue complexion color. For instance, if one is ruddy, any costume in red or it's neighbors will dull the ruddyness.

A color scheme may be either complementary or nonochromatic. With a red, one could use red-orange and red-purple, but never a blue-purple or a yellow- orange. Never use three primary colors in one costume