Know your neutrals - for Springs

Hannah wears a Light Birch Chloe Jacket with a Gingernut Ponte Kick Skirt over a Soft White Pippa Top

Neutrals can feel perhaps the most tricky for Springs. Your palette is so bright, clear, warm and light that 'sensible' colours can feel like anathema, but the reality is that the right neutrals will anchor your brights, making them feel less children's TV presenter and more effortlessly stylish.

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Your neutrals fall broadly into two camps - the warmer, more golden end of the palette, which works well on the warmer types of Spring (Golden/True/Warm and some Paintbox Springs), and the cooler, more 'blue' end of the palette, which is perfect for the cooler types (Blue/Bright/Clear and Pastel/Light Springs). Which isn't to say that a warmer Spring can't wear the blues, or that a cooler one should avoid the brown tones. No matter where you fall within your palette, every colour within it will harmonise with your skintone, and the effect of either set of neutrals can be altered dramatically by pairing with one of your best colours - imagine how different the elegant tones of Soft Camel looks when paired with elegant Soft White vs with Watermelon.

To give you the confidence to get going with your neutrals, we've put together three outfits which play with your neutrals in different ways - neutrals with a colour pop, neutrals as part of colour blocking, and a neutral anchor to a bold bright outfit.