n the early 1980s, a fashion trend called colour analysis came along. It paired a person's skin tone and hair colour a colour palette for clothes to make the person look good. There were four types - Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn. As a summary, Winter and Summer are blue-red based colours and Spring and Autumn are orange-red based colours. There was a book by Carole Jackson, Color Me Beautiful (1980) that revealed the overall colour wheel.
I found out I was a Spring - which meant orange undertones to the colour palette. Orange red, coral, aqua blue, daffodil yellow, bright green, and orange-browns - these are the Spring colours. That was long ago.
But wait, this fashion trend has popped back up. And guess what! There are now 3 types of Spring not one. And there's now Wikipedia, so one can go to the entry and see a long history of colour analysis systems - from the 1850s onward. It is HERE.
And now? Here’s how we break down the types of Spring: Sunlit Spring – The light Spring color palette
Copper Spring – The warm Spring color palette
Vivid Spring – The bright Spring color palette (or sometimes referred to as the “clear Spring color palette”)
When I got my colours done in the early 1980s, there were 4 types compared to now where there are 12 types. You fit into one type. A person draped a large piece of fabric across the front and looked at the skin tones and how things matched or not.
Now it is complicated With 12 types and there is now a base season and secondary factors. The secondary factors are called light, deep, near, soft warm or cool. You can now "veer" between two seasons. How interesting to see the evolution and development of something like this over the decades.
And the motivation for getting one's colours analyzed? So that one's wardrobe can enhance one's skin tones and give a person a facelift for a very cheap price. | 
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