What suits you, and why

What is here

These pages are a rendering of an engine, not an archive of articles. The colour verdicts are distances measured in LAB space against a season palette; the shape verdicts are named rules with signed effects, the same ones that fire when the product looks at something you are about to buy.

That has a consequence worth stating: where the engine has nothing to say, there is no page. Several body-and-garment combinations were generated, found to rest on a single rule, and dropped rather than padded out.

• 12 pages on season.
• 7 pages on body type.
• 84 pages on season and body together.
• 55 pages on body type and garment.
• 288 pages on season and colour.

How to read a verdict

Two vocabularies, kept apart. A rule from geometry is stated flat, because a cut that adds width at the widest point does so regardless of who is looking. A rule from convention is marked as convention, because it is true in a place and among people who agree, and stating it as fact is how styling advice usually goes wrong.

Numbers are effects on a score that starts neutral. Positive is in your favour, negative against, and roughly twenty either way is a strong opinion.