Color Wonderful

by Joan Nicholson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 055334238X
• ISBN13: 9780553342383
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best color advice available despite outdated photos

It is easily the best color book I own as it focuses on YOUR unique coloring which is the only way to go. VASTLY better than the "Color Me Beautiful" books (all of 'em). Long ago, I noticed a woman with color samples while I was shopping. She looked amazing good and her coloring was somewhat akin to mine so I asked her what "season" she was. Basically, her response was "Season? What's that? My fabric samples are from X". X was a woman in her 80s in San Francisco who had been doing colors long before it became a popular concept. That elderly woman was the upper crust "go-to" woman for clothing advice and she used much the same principles as in this book (I think I kinda scared the woman I was questioning as I went from one casual question to an interrogation). I really wish the authors would update & reissue this book as the makeup is horrendously 1980s.

I Recommend this book to my color students

I have been a color consultant for over 20 years and I train new color consultants. My system and methods are a compilation of what I have learned from studying the color systems of many talented individuals. Nicholson and Crum were the first to create a system that placed more emphasis on color intensity and color combinations...than color temperature. I believe both aspects are critical and still recommend this book to my students after warning them they should not judge the book by the hideous pictures of garishly made up models in the book.

Still spot-on twenty years later.....

In the mid-80s I researched the various color systems and chose to go with Color 1. I had a consultation with an incredibly talented Color 1 associate and everything I learned then still applies today. It is true that this is a personalized system. The huge set of swatches I received was compiled by studying my coloring and holding up lots of swatches next to my skin. There is no one-size-fits-all. And everyone can wear every color in cloths and makeup providing that the color is in the right-for-you clarity, intensity, shade. This system is vastly superior to the system(s) which classify one as a 'season'.

Color Wonderful Color1:

I found this book to be one of the best I have ever read so far on color and clothing matters.It is nearly the ideal book on the subject.I found out ,finally, after reading Carole Jackson's book and others,in this book,exactly WHY I didn't fit into any ONE category in the usual way; I am one of those "Cross-over types" according to this knowledgable book = a "Light-Bright/Gentle" type.That Intensity and Contrast levels are so important.With up to date pictures, and less confusing/too much information crowded all together, is would be the best book on this subject out there.I HOPE there is an updated version of this coming out...