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The Popular Bridesmaid Dresses Colors For 2021

The Popular Bridesmaid Dresses Colors For 2021

28th Feb 2024

Choosing wedding colors is one of the most serious issues before preparing for a wedding. The right choice will help to create a celebration with an individual atmosphere and special style. To decide on the color for bridesmaid dresses, you must understand the wedding trends: colors and elements of style. The greatest authority in this matter has the Pantone Color Institute, whose palette is used by the world's leading fashion designers. Representatives of the Pantone Color Institute have announced the main colors of 2021. And this time, we have not one color, but two - a shade of gray called Ultimate Gray, and a joyful yellow called Illuminating.

How to choose the right color?

The main advantage of trends 2021 in color dresses for bridesmaids is the ability to use more than one shade, combining one primary color with others. Therefore, you can choose any color or shade. Be yourself, choose a color, shade and combine them into a style that is closest to you. According to the style of the wedding, the color of your dress can be both monotonous (one color) or a combination of shades of one color, or a contrasting combination of several colors. Here again, you need to take into account the style of the wedding and the colors you want to combine.

Successful combinations of colors

Different bridesmaid dresses colors, and their shades are used, depending on when the holiday is planned. For example, gray is considered winter. However, the new trends of wedding color for 2021 prove the opposite, so you can safely choose this color even for a summer celebration.Combinations of contrasting or pastel colors in your dress will be quite successful and aesthetic:

  • Muted green together with Ultramarine Green and Military Olive can be used at any time of the year. This color perfectly emphasizes the tenderness and femininity of bridesmaid dresses.
  • Another relevant combination of color for bridesmaids’ dresses is a tandem of calm pink with green or gold, as well as a deep red with beige and gray. Pay attention to what season will be the celebration.
  • A combination of various orange, beige and brown shades is more proper for autumn. These colors can be used both in bridesmaid dresses and accessories.
  • To create the effect of warmth and soft sunlight, even on the darkest autumn-winter day, you can use bright summer colors. By the way, such colors and their shades are not the only summers because these light colors look appropriate in a combination of darker shades.

Guide to color dresses for bridesmaid

best color dresses for bridesmaid

Amberglow - amber with hints of orange - is perfect for creating an autumn atmosphere, perfectly fits conception with the classic color - black, white, red. In contrast to the classic amber, it tends to more natural tones - realistic, typical of the season of fallen leaves and the last sunny days of the year.

Rose Tan - noble pink - elegant, calm, and interesting, something between a tea rose and dirty pink, excellent color for bridesmaid dresses. Splendor and nobility are revealed to us in this shade of pink. The trendy Rose Tan - more saturated than tea rose, and more elegant and fresh than dirty pink.

Green Sheen - green-yellow - belongs to the bright, neon shades, bold and fresh, great for accessories. The fashionable shade of Green Sheen, also known as yellow-green and neon green, perfectly quenches the thirst for bright spots! As the main tone, it is, of course, too extreme, but as an additional - for details and fresh accents - it is well worth considering.

Ultramarine Green precedes the complex blue ultramarine in the thermal manufacturing process. Expressive, but at the same time restrained and elegant. It is the complete opposite of the playful and a little crazy neon green that was mentioned above. This green resembles a light emerald - it is fascinatingly significant but still not as dignified and mature as the classic emerald.

Magenta Purple -  purple-violet - a long-awaited and meaningful rebirth of the legendary ultraviolet. Moderately dark, mysterious, deep. Fashion experts believe that this color is a mixture of blue and red. Purple-violet is a very expressive shade, calm but remarkable. His vocation is to add solemnity and grandeur.

Blue Depths - navy blue - with a purple undertone, a deep, magical, elegant alternative to black.

Sandstone - dark sand - noble, sand-brown, dull. Nude shades do not cease to conquer: they are restrained, universal, and at the same time exclusive and independent. This is an ingenious solution for bridesmaid dresses by color.

Sleet -  gray with a metallic undertone - saturated and complete. Different shades of gray appear among the auxiliary and sometimes among the main color recommendations of designers. Its main feature is a metal undertone. It goes well with white, black, silver, blue.

Trendy yellow and Ultimate gray

trendy colours in 2021

The rendy colour of 2021 is illuminating - a juicy, sunny yellow shade that inspires hope and generates optimism. At the same time, it is not flashy and does not irritate with its brightness. Illuminating it harmoniously blends with many other shades and easily breaks the stereotypes about the use of yellow, including in colour dresses for bridesmaids. Sunny Illuminating will suit creative and bold brides, as it will further distance you from the classic perception of a wedding dress but will open up new possibilities for the look. You can choose a pure yellow dress, but also you can consider an alternative - a bridesmaid’s suit with a skirt and top or blouses in white and yellow tones.

The second main color of 2021 is Ultimate Gray - classic, unmixed, accurate. It symbolizes firmness of decision, stability, calmness. Ultimate Gray perfectly complements the bright illuminating and balances it. Of course, Ultimate Gray is too dark for a bridesmaid dress, but it will serve as a basis for implementation along with the effect of ombre or combinations of grey fabric, such as chiffon, or organza, with white lace.

Now you know about the most trendy colors of this season, so you can easily choose a dress in a chic shade and be the most stylish on holiday!


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