neutrals are safe. color is scary.

why I wore neutrals for years and how I started the slow evolution towards color

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For much of my life, I’ve been a neutrals person. They felt easy. They felt safe. And for a long time, they genuinely felt like me.

I can trace this preference back to high school, when I thought the most sophisticated thing a person could wear was a black top with jeans. I even made a New Year’s resolution once to wear more black (seriously, I really did). I loved the simplicity of it, the way I could never feel wrong in it.

There were moments when I tried to add color. In college, I bought a pair of green suede loafers (mostly because they were on clearance, why else would I buy green suede loafers?) wore them once to the campus library, and never wore them again. I also bought a red top because women’s magazines told me I should wear red (brown hair, brown eyes, etc). I got a lot of compliments, but I didn’t like it on me. Both the green shoes and the r…