They take a little longer to break in, but heavy jeans make a real difference in the winter. 3. Wear Thermals Underneath Your Jeans Look for a colour to fit or belong with the Season palette strip of similar colours. Your odds are better using the entire strip than aiming for an identical match for a single colour.

The 2 pairs marked V. Light are examples of jeans with a lower energy, perhaps too light, too soft, or both. The don’t subtract for Summer, but neither do they add. We see jeans as neutrals so these can works as Summer choices, but I wanted blues with more personality, that participate more in the overall look. The jeans in Soft Autumn are medium dark, but they’re not as soft as I started with. In the lower right quadrant, there are 2 pairs shown that I considered and in practice, both would be fine but with the soft olive top, but the look seemed a bit washed out. The pair at the front looks pinkish. The darker pair at the rear is better but I find the combinations in the Soft Autumn square at the top stronger and better. The jeans in the picture with the woman wearing the soft olive top are another of those “Yes, they’re jeans, they’re neutral enough, but they don’t enrich the look, they're just there." Placeholders rather than participants in the presentation. Winter colour is bright so items tend to look new and the parts of a look, including jeans, are mutually enhancing when the other parts are new looking as well. In #1, we see the brightness as a lively blue, with more colour pop and less sense of softness (visible gray) than Summer. The jeans would be hard to slide into the other rows. Cotton denim isn't great at repelling wind or wetness, which are two major concerns in cold weather.

Your natural colours have 3 properties, a particular warm-cool setting, a soft-bright setting, and a certain light dark range. Traditional colour-wheel primary blue is cool but there are thousands of blues. I find the warmth or coolness of blue less predictable than other colours. With blue, as it warms, it can become greener as yellow mixes in like turquoise, or violet as red mixes in, but this is harder to apply in practice than for yellow or red. My solution is to focus on what I trust myself to know, meaning the soft to bright aspect and the light to dark range. If the blue is too bright, say, or too dark to be reasonable with the palette, it belongs with another Season. Secondly, I make colour combinations to decide how well the blue works. The Light Spring colours could be a reasonable, believable extension of the blue palette strip. Some are closer to violet, like the first pair, which could be fine for Light Summer too, and some are greener with even more blue pigment, such as the middle pair.

In Light Summer, the pair on the left is brighter and could easily work for Light Spring. It is also more aqua and less pink than the middle and right pairs, as Sp yellow blends into Summer blue. The middle and right pairs are pinker and softer than anything we’d find in Spring, but not as light or soft as the pairs marked V. Light. About the pair marked All, they could be at the darker end of Light Summer, bright enough with a fair bit of blue, only medium dark. With Dark Autumn, the choices are fairly dark, since darkness makes blue work better in jeans. These also have more blue pigment than the other Autumn groups. The pair on the left are basic navy blue, a little golden orange, not too bright. The centre pair has a bronzy blue purple tone that looks great with this Season, a variation on warm dark blue. The pair on the right could work for True Autumn as well, a basic jeans energy that would be harder to place in the other groups.

Men's Trousers

The pair on the right is fairly faded. They're not as bright as the other two pairs and the fade helps lighten the colour without fading to white, which looks sharp or separate.They're not obviously pink for Summer, gold for Autumn, or dark for Winter. They’re not beyond the darkest blue of the Light Spring palette and worn with any of the palette colours, if I saw the combination at the market, it would be perfectly fine The inseam runs a few inches long — depending on your height, you may need to hem them for your perfect fit. Travelers will particularly appreciate the thoughtful details put into the fabric, which boasts an odor-neutralizing treatment — meaning you can wear them more often while still feeling fresh in between washes — and a water-repellent finish that will help keep you dry in light rain or snow. The mid-rise fit is also ultra-flattering, thanks to a slightly-slouchy boyfriend style with a cropped inseam to better layer over winter boots. Even considering the relaxed fit, these tend to run large — you may want to size down for a better fit.