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What Do You Wear With Tie-Dye?
If tie-dye brings pictures of 1960’s hippies with long hair, braids, and rose-colored sunglasses it’s time to rip that tie-dye out of t-shirts and tunics and bring it into the present. You can wear tie-dye in a sophisticated and stylish outfit that will make people look twice.
The current day tie-dye pieces are no longer the oversized rainbow t-shirts that don’t fit, well, they are still available but you don’t have to wear them. Tie-day has been transformed into chic dresses, moody silk tanks and sexy skirts. What’s even more appealing with tie-dye is that each piece is unique. Each tie-dye piece is different so when you buy a tie-dyed piece you have something that is uniquely yours.
But how do you wear tie-dye without looking like a colorful mess?
As with most trends and poppy pieces, don’t overdo it. Only wear one tie-dye piece at a time. You shouldn’t wear tie-dye pants with matching tie-dye shorts – go with one or the other, not both.
Wear your tie-dye with neutrals. In this outfit, I wore this tie-dye silk tank top and pair it with black jeans and a blazer. This made the main focus of the outfit the shirt and brought more color to this outfit without making it look too tie-dye crazy. I also wanted to create a strong contrast so I went with black instead of say white or a darker blue. This is especially important if you wear a tie-dye dress make sure your accessories, purse, blazer, jacket and heels are neutral.
Look for tie-dye in darker hues or pale, water colored hues. These colors will create a sophisticated look and keep you looking classy. Stay away from the bright rainbow color palettes. If you do want to wear something a little brighter go with a piece that has colors in the same color palette; such as turquoise, aqua and blue as opposed to turquoise, hot pink, lime green.
So, what piece should tie-dye? The answer really depends on how adventurous you are. You can stick with a tank top, such as I have, or wear it in accessories, denim jackets, shorts, dresses, skirts, anything really. You can wear any piece you want in tie-dye as long as you follow the three points I made above.
If you’re looking to make a big statement, tie-dye jeans will do it without a doubt. I wore tie-dye jeans sometime ago, they were white denim with purple patterns. With such statement pants the rest of the outfit needs to be neutral without much fuss.
How do you wear tie-dye?
Stay Stylish,
-V
Photos: @peterlang
