Sartorial Inspiration from Unusual Sources

[mymil]

Does anybody else find inspiration for their wardrobe from outside of menswear (and clothing in general)?

Particularly when thinking about how to incorporate color, I find myself drawing at least in part on palettes that appear in nature. Flowers, trees, clouds, the sky---the colors of these are in front of us everyday, and are sometimes surprisingly appealing when combined.

On the way to work today I walked by a bus stop that I've passed countless times before. I don't know why it caught my eye today, but it did---maybe they put down fresh mulch. So I took a photo:

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I was really struck by the saturated brown mulch (more orangeish than it appears here), the vivid royal blue bus stop pole, and the light gray concrete.

I took a few minutes to put together a Polyvore set using these colors as inspiration, just for kicks (but I spoilered it because the important thing is the photo of the bus stop above):

Does anybody else have any similar photos---sartorially inspiring, but ostensibly unrelated to clothing---to share?

 

[NOBD]

Here's one of a piece of string. I really like the colours. I don't have a literal translation to clothes, but it shows how well brown (background colour on the left) goes with "bluish" colours.

 

[plei89]

This will be an interesting thread!

 

[mymil]

I don't have an awesome macro lens like NOBD (just an iPhone---would these be cooler if I took them with Instagram?

), but here's another photo to echo his sentiment that cool colors work really well with brown. Although I think that string also shows how well purple works with light gray!

(The exact colors are off; I have no idea what I'm doing, and the iPhone camera exacerbates my incompetencies! It picks up the highlights on these flowers as white instead of light purple. And then the image looks different when I preview it than in my editing program... Oh well...)

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The siding is supposed to be very close to a sea foam green, I hope I got it close enough. And the bricks are not quite this saturated. Man I suck at this.

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These orange flowers are backgrounded partly by the unsaturated green I was describing in the first post. I think of it as a sage green.

 

[SpooPoker]

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