Personal lookbook

Everything, on you

Every top, every pant and every layer worth owning, rendered on your own build and coloring so you can see the combination before you buy it. Tap to swap.

69 looksWarm paletteWhite GATs throughout

Tops

Six silhouettes across seven colors, ordered best to weakest for your coloring. Dark indigo denim and the white GATs stay constant so the only variable is the shirt. An asterisk marks the three Quince stocks right now.

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Silhouette

Color

Pants

The same ivory tee on six bottoms. This is the section that decides whether an outfit reads as one flat column or as two halves.

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Bottom

Layers

The highest-leverage category for a lean frame. An open layer adds shoulder width and puts a second color at the collar.

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Layer

Jackets

Zip-through layers for 50 to 65 degrees — open or close as the day moves. Pick a jacket, then a color.

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Jacket

Color

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The colour map

Not a generic wheel — every dot is a garment measured off a real product page, plotted against your own skin.

Hue — where the colour sits on the circle

YOUhue 21–24°

Reading it

Your skin sits at hue 21–24° — the orange-gold slice at the top right. Colours near that arc harmonise with you. Colours opposite it fight you.

0–60° — home. Reds, rusts, browns, khakis, olives. Everything that works for you lives here. Brick 0°, terracotta 19°, espresso 21°, flax 23°, khaki 37°, olive 41°.
60–180° — conditional. Greens and teals work if muted and warm-leaning. Mineral green 91°, soft teal 169°. Saturated emerald or mint does not.
180–300° — avoid near the face. Blues, indigos, violets. Atlantic blue 210° and coastal blue 211° are almost exactly opposite your skin on the wheel. That is the whole objection.
Achromatic — judged on brightness only. White, grey and black have no hue, so the wheel says nothing about them. See below.

Brightness — the second axis, and the one that catches people out

Your face measures 67–76%. Anything landing inside that band gives you no edge at the collar, whatever its hue. This is the entire reason Dusty Khaki underperforms despite being the right temperature.

Your face — 67–76%

Optic White100%

Porcelain90%

Flax89%

Coastal Blue87%

Dusty Khaki75%

Terracotta66%

Brick Red55%

Mineral Green53%

Atlantic Blue53%

Bayberry Olive49%

Soft Teal48%

Espresso29%

So who should wear cool colours?

Cool palettes are not worse. They belong to people whose skin measures the opposite of yours — blue or pink under the surface rather than gold, so red and blue come out near even instead of 80 points apart.

Cool-toned fair skin. Burns rather than tans, flushes pink, veins read blue at the wrist. Optic white, true red, cobalt and pure black were made for this colouring, and they are exactly the colours that drain you.
Deep skin with plum or blue undertones. Jewel tones, icy pastels and stark white all sit brilliantly against it — often the highest-contrast palette of anyone.
Ash hair of any shade. Ash blonde, ash brown, blue-black, silver. Ash means the absence of gold, and it pulls the whole face cool.
Anyone going grey. The most common real case. Silver hair shifts your contrast cool over time, and the warm colours that suited you at thirty stop working at sixty. People usually notice the photos looking off before they work out why.

The test is the same one run on you, not a matter of taste: photograph the face in daylight, sample unshadowed skin, subtract blue from red. Above roughly +60 is warm. Near zero or negative is cool. You came back between +72 and +108.

What you own, and what to wear it with

Five pieces arriving, plus the black tees and dark denim already in the closet. These are the combinations that work, rendered.

Five rules that predict every pairing below

One half light, one half dark. Never both. A dark top over dark denim is one flat column; that is what every old photo of you shows.
Warm goes nearest your face. Your skin measured warm at hue 21–24°. Whatever touches your collar should be warm too. Cool colours are fine below the waist and on your feet, where they never meet your face.
Leave fifteen points of brightness. Your face sits at 67–76%. Any top within fifteen points of that gives you no edge at the collar — go clearly darker or clearly lighter.
Let the layer carry the colour. An open shirt or fleece puts a second colour at your neck and adds width at the shoulder, which a lean frame wants. The tee underneath can then be plain.
Never two of the same family. Two greens fight. Two whites of different temperature fight. Contrast or commit.

Flax linen shirtLayer

Mineral Green fleeceLayer

Brick Red teeStrongest

Bayberry Olive teeBest neutral

Porcelain teeNeutral light

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Occasion

Three to avoid

Bayberry Olive under the green fleece. Green on green. The two fight instead of reading as one.
Porcelain and Flax together. Both near-white, but Porcelain is cool-neutral and Flax is warm cream. Side by side the mismatch shows.
Porcelain alone with black jeans. No warmth anywhere in the outfit.

Denim, chinos, socks

Question	Answer	Why
Jean wash	Buy mid-wash	You own dark indigo only, so every look has a dark bottom and your dark tops have nothing to play against. Medium blue, soft fading, no whiskering. Skip pale stonewash and black denim.
Grey chinos	Weakest bottom	They work, but grey is cool against your warm tops, and grey chino plus zip layer is half the uniform you are leaving. Buy olive chinos instead — same versatility, warm instead of cool.
Socks	Match the trouser	Charcoal or navy with jeans, olive or taupe with chinos, so the leg reads as one line into the shoe. Black socks with the white GATs is the one actively bad combination: a hard dark band between dark denim and a white shoe.

Care

Every piece, how to wash it and how to dry it — and which mistakes actually cost you something.

Two rules that cover almost everything

Only the linen goes in the dryer. Everything else lives on a hanger. Linen is the one fabric that softens through machine agitation; the rest only lose by it.
Heat destroys the measurements you paid attention to. A hot cycle takes an inch off a tee hem and shrinks a leg opening. The 28.5-inch hem is the whole argument of this page, and a dryer undoes it in three washes.

Clothing

Piece	Wash	Dry	Never
Linen shirt Flax	Warm, around 40°C, with lights. Half a cup of white vinegar in the rinse for the first few washes — it strips the pectin that makes new linen stiff.	Tumble LOW	Fabric softener (coats the fibre and kills the breathability). Hot water. Air-drying alone, which leaves it board-stiff.
Pima tees Brick, Olive, Porcelain	Cold or warm, inside out, like colours. Wash Brick Red alone for the first two or three cycles — saturated reds bleed.	Hang dry	Hot dryer. It shrinks body length, waves the collar and dulls the colour. This is the single most expensive mistake on the page.
Sweater-knit fleece Mineral Green	Cold or warm, inside out to cut pilling, like colours, no softener.	Low or air	High heat — it glazes the fleece face permanently and there is no undoing it. Never iron polyester.
Denim Dark indigo, white, mid-wash	Rarely — every five to ten wears. Cold, inside out, zipped. White jeans on their own, and treat stains the same day.	Hang dry	Hot wash or tumble. Both shrink the leg opening and fade the wash you chose deliberately.
Olive chino when you buy it	Cold, inside out.	Hang dry	Tumbling — cotton twill shrinks in length first, which is where a chino shows it.

Shoes, belt, jewellery

Piece	Care	Never
White GATs leather + suede + gum sole	Laces out and washed separately. Damp cloth and mild soap on the smooth leather. Suede brush and a suede eraser on the toe and heel panels — dry only, never wet. Magic eraser on the gum sole.	The washing machine. It dissolves the sole adhesive and yellows the gum. Never dry near a radiator.
Black Stan Smiths	Damp cloth, mild soap, air dry.	Machine washing, same reasons.
Suede runners	Suede brush after wear. Protector spray before the first outing and twice a year after.	Water, soap, or any liquid cleaner.
Full grain belt	Wipe with a damp cloth. Leather conditioner twice a year. Full grain is meant to darken and patina — that is the reason to buy it.	Soaking, and any heat drying. Both crack the fibre permanently.
Gold pendant on cord	Dry cloth after wear. Take it off before showering, swimming and the gym.	Jewellery dip cleaners — they strip plating outright. Sweat and chlorine are what wear gold plating through, and friction does the rest.

How to group a load

Lights. Linen shirt, Porcelain tee, light cottons. Warm, vinegar, tumble low for the linen only.
Darks, first wash. Brick Red and Bayberry Olive on their own before they join anything.
Alone. Jeans, towels, the fleece.
Never in with linen: denim (rivets and zips abrade it) or towels (lint transfer shows badly on cream).

The five rules underneath all of it

Hem at mid-fly. Around 29 inches shoulder to hem. Past the seat and the legs disappear.
Warm beats cool near the face. Ivory over optic white, camel over grey, espresso over black.
Never one value head to toe. Light top over dark bottom, or the reverse. Not dark over dark.
Fit the thigh, tailor the waist. Never size up a whole pant to fit one part of it.
Clean shoes or none of it works. White leather earns its keep only while it is actually white.