Color choice is incredibly important. The right colored item can draw shopper’s eyes from across the room. It can make a person go from merely considering a purchase to pulling the trigger on the transaction. A shop can make the most beautiful mesh on the grid, but if the color selection isn’t on point, shoppers can overlook it.
Every season experts from the Pantone Institute, whose expertise crosses an incredible breadth of fields, decide what the Pantone Color Forecast will be. This palette informs designers, from fashion to interiors to graphics, on what colors everyone will be embracing in the coming months and years. It is a trendsetter from which everyone can take new color queues.
Color palettes may not seem that important, but they help to unify the color story of a season across all brands and media. If a store falls out of step with the color story, their items stop matching up with other brands. This can become problematic for shoppers. A shopper might find the perfect purple dress, but no matter where they go, they cannot find any accessories to match. Why? Well perhaps the dress designer is offering a greyed out purple while many other designers have embraced the more red based purple that is part of the new color story. Unified color stories are why shoppers can go to many different stores and still manage to find items that work well together.
But, matching isn’t the only dilemma that can arise from failing to follow color trends. Sometimes picking colors from palettes several seasons ago can result in an outdated look, even if the mesh is spectacular. People unconsciously associate colors which have gone out of trend with dated looks. Missing a color trend change can make a collection less appealing.
Why do we need our colors to change? Well, cycling through different variations of each color keeps our palettes fresh. If everyone has been using a very greyed out purple and all the sudden creators re-introduce a red based purple, shoppers will find the difference refreshing. This new purple is different from the purple of the past few years. It all the sudden has a freshness to it. Yes, that purple has always been in existence, but we have not seen it in a good while, so it has regained its appeal. This cross-industry rotation of colors is important in keeping colors fresh and exciting to our eyes.
Following color trends is by no means an imperative, but it can really help the appeal of creator’s lines. It can keep designs looking fresh and current, and keep shoppers buzzing about them. I know I always get excited when I find an item in the perfect color that I didn’t even know I was longing for. Color trends are what keep us loving color, and keep us excited about what will come next.
Curio – Penelope (Pearl)
Pink Fuel – Harley Lipstick (Orange)
Slink – Mesh Hands
Ikon – Destiny Eyes (Cerulean)
Magika – Shimmer
CARGO – Hipster Glasses
Pixicat – Wide Crop Top (Aztec)
Tres Blah – Denim Mini Skirt (Dark Wash)
REIGN – Moccasin Boots (Caramel)
The three styles are just beautiful, and the feet looks amazing. I didn’t knew this brand. Thank you for share. Great post!
Both a Color Picker and a RGB Entry? BUYING ALL THE SHOES.
uh oh! I’m going to have to get these! Who can resist a color change hud???
WOW! I can see my Linden Account diminishing by the second. Thanks for the post!
I Love that third pair. Must have NOW!
Second pair are adorable 🙂
Hiyas,
“I could be wrong, but these did not seem like they were rigged mesh. I was able to select them, and also, I noticed some movement/shifting near joint when I changed poses.”
Just wanted to comment on this in case people were wondering why or what difference it makes. I made the decision to not do rigged feet because of resizing, with rigged feet you have to use a specific leg shape for them to work perfectly, I felt the ability to re-size was more important to people although it takes take a little more fiddling to get the shoes to fit in the first place.
thank you for a wonderful post, glad you liked 🙂
I have quite a few of Breach’s guns and the attention to detail is amazing so I fully expect these shoes to be the same.
On their newer Mesh guns, you can completely resize (scale) them, which is a boon for a petite girl like me as their older prim-based MP7 looks like an Assault Rifle on me.
On the subject of Mesh on these shoes, and you thinking they may not be rigged, that would be consistent with the way the Breach guns are as I’ve described. I would be willing to bet these shoes are resizable in some way?
I have such horrible times with these foot/hud shoes. I tend to wear darker shaded color skins like Illusory. Even using the color picker, the numbers never come out right *sighs*
But I will give these a try. My sl feet are sooo ugly
I had the same problem. But these shoes have been very easy for me in terms of matching my skin color. But I have a light skin.
Very nice! I’ll try demos for sure.
I am in the store now trying the demos and I can’t believe how easily the color is matched with my skin. I love these shoes.
*sigh* And here I was hoping to keep some Lindens in my wallet this week…
Same here lol. I bought them all. I couldn’t help it. *.*
The Envy style looks amazing! I think I’ll have to head to their shop and check some things out!
I’m really impressed with how easily you match the skin color. i have such a hard time. And there’s always a seam if the shoes don’t have an ankle strap.
I got the Envy fatpack. One thing I’ve noticed, is that for the shoes to blend in the best, you should have Atmospheric Shaders on. You have to do the same for the SLink barefeet as well. It’s an SL glitch.