In today’s show…
With the 4 main True Season groups in mind, we imagine a woman walking into the party looking so beautiful in her colours that the room goes quiet and we ask ourselves, “How did she do it?”
- Fun with comfort (2.16 min)
- Autumn (8.21 min)
- Summer (33.49 min)
- Spring (1hr 06min)
- Winter (1hr 34min)
Duration total: 1hr 51min
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Episode 41: Party Ready for 12 Seasons
Show Notes:
The Questions discussed in today’s show:
With the 4 main True Season groups in mind, we imagine a woman walking into the party looking so beautiful in her colours that the room goes quiet and we ask ourselves, “How did she do it?”
- Fun with comfort (2.16 min)
- Autumn (8.21 min)
- Summer (33.49 min)
- Spring (1hr 06min)
- Winter (1hr 34min)
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Spectacular post ladies. I have listened to the Summer section for a second time, and will probably listen again tomorrow. So many tidbits of information to absorb. Loved it.
So glad you enjoyed it, Diane. I found the same in listening to Jorunn and Cate, many ideas I hadn’t thought of or forgot and need to bring back!
A few episodes ago was the ‘seasonal stereotypes’ episode, wondering at some point what the stereotypes are –
Well, this episode is full of them. It was disappointingly little about actual color and supposedly much about “this season looks good in this totally not color-related style and vibe”
what’s a natural light summer to do? A dramatic light spring? A romantic bright winter? a ingenue dark autumn? a gamine soft summer?
I see your point, Gitte. Each of the categories you mention could occupy an hour’s conversation on their own and we hoped this episode (almost 2 hours long) might offer inspiration that all types could apply in some form. Sorry to hear that this one wasn’t for you.
As a soft summer, I will keep in mind the sea glass comment. I love that color. Hello to Christine and Jorunn.
Keep it in mind, Sandi, and it may just turn up one day. I find that’s how things often work out 🙂
This was my favorite episode yet. I listened twice and made a two page list of words y’all used for inspiration. When I was draped as a soft summer, despite seeing how the colors brought life to my eyes, I was so dissappointed in what I perceived to be baby colors for adults, so mumsy. Now after a few months of stretching into my colors (hello to my new fav, eucalyptus!), I’m looking for the kind of advice you gave here about how to capture and express my own character through the details of texture and jewelry and vibe. It helps me to feel like a fleshed out human, not just a flat image in a coloring book.
I thought it was fun when you mentioned how to make a plain men’s t-shirt appropriate for a season. I think it might be fun to hear how all 12 seasons could do so.
Hello and on behalf of Christine and myself, thank you so much for your comment! I’m impressed that you’re so thorough in your note-taking! And becoming a “fleshed out human”, what a wonderful expression. To me, that sounds like the long term goal of any personal colour analysis, growing into one’s Season, palette and essence like you’re describing here. And it does not happen over night. Sometimes it does take time and a little conscious effort to stretch into your colours, like you say. Good for you, and again thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.
Christine, are you an Enneagram 5? I’d guess Jorunn as a 2 or 7? I believe myself a 7.
I’d also guess, since I’m getting a bit new agey, Christine is a Capricorn. Way off? Well…there are 12,,
Have you noticed any correlation between birth season & color season? A question I’ve been dying to ask but seems so unlikely.
I was born late summer, & the color & style, items, properties, & colors describe my preferences perfectly—moonlight on water (or on anything!), pearlescent anything, beach glass (too expensive!), shimmer, round shapes…although I have no idea if the flatter!
Anyway, just a bit of fun weaving threads, or finding loose ones.
Christine here…Not sure on Enneagram for me, possibly 1? I don’t think Jorunn and I have ever discussed it. I have never noticed a correlation between birth and colour seasons, but I’ve never looked either. There may be loose associations between all these various aspects of ourselves, weaving threads as you say. Sometimes, the association seems to be between birth season and MBTI or something similar, but I’m not sure 🙂
Christine you are wonderful ,rescuing we deep Autumns with the wonderful lush colours, velvet and the gold. I hate cable knit sweaters, even shudder at the camel knit cashmeres. Nice that gold can be a neutral. I have pale skin lithe and was charcoal with green eyes and cheekbones and the relaxed is just a different individualist mind. Strength and Celtic looks magical. Shiny fabric looks weak and thin, better richly lustrous. I have kieselstein cords silver buckled belts. I agree re the feline energy. Feline energy in side and who cares what some thinks if they try to pat, no.
Christine you have wonderful ideas..love them. I agree being one.
Thank you, so glad you found inspiration in this episode 🙂 I very much enjoyed making this episode with the three of us tossing ideas around. Other people’s imagination can me more fun than our own (rather like the contents of their fridge!)
I just finished listening, and I had a lump in my throat, trying to fight back tears listening to the winter part. I just turned 47 years old and had color analysis done as a teenager (winter, Gloria Mundé system) and as an adult (by Ulla Pallin, my colors were cool, deep and clear, she doesn’t work with seasons). Your description or image of the winter woman is the stereotype that I believe have made it so hard for me to identify with my colors or feel comfortable in them since I was young. I am not elegant, sophisticated, or edgy, cool, rock and roll, provocative, controlled, static, and would look like a sad clown wearing a fur stola, sequins faux crocodile accessories, rock and roll type jewelry in chrome, it sounds more like a Cruella de Vil type. Maybe I am just overly sensitive, but I thought that personality and personal style had nothing to do with the colors you were born with physically.
First, I applaud your last sentence, that personality and style have nothing to do with your natural colours. You’re right and I expect that Cate and Jorunn would concur. I also appreciate that the imagery and references might seem exaggerated or difficult to apply to everyday (or any day) appearance. Thank you for pointing out these areas that could be clarified.
We’ve mentioned here and there that how people wear their colours is entirely their choice, the idea being simply to wear your own colours. Beyond that, some prefer quiet colour combinations and styles while others prefer the opposite. We hope that by presenting all variations throughout the podcasts, people can find looks to identify with and their place of comfort within their colours. With the theme of Party Ready, we felt an opportunity to relax or expand on some of the imagery in ways we felt would be attractive for the wearer, for those who would like to hear us stretch our visions. We appreciate the element of costume and perhaps should have clarified that taking one or two of the ideas that one could be explored might be all that most people would do.
I would guess that many Winters would align with your sentiments and receive the episode as a flight of imagination rather than reality, whether they attend parties or not. Like you, I am not elegant, sophisticated, or any other of the descriptions you mentioned. I wear athletic clothing and if I attend a party once a year, I might wear a slightly more sparkly necklace with a turtleneck sweater. I stick to my colours and that’s it.
I agree entirely that many of the looks are average or stereotypic and I also acknowledge that averages exist for a reason. They’re patterns that got noticed in the relative world of colours and Seasons. In that relative world of 12 groups, the colours do speak to me of control more than Spring would, but that’s not to say that the people are that way. All body types and personalities appear in all Seasons, as you say.
I hope that you’ll just us for the January episode and that you find more in the topic that feels relatable 🙂