Fashion trends ebb in and out like ocean waves.

It’s also important not to overwork a particular style.

One trend that can easily throw your whole look out of balance is wearing pastels.

A couple wearing pastels standing in front of a house

You already have on a pastel skirt, so are the shirt, hat, and socks overkill?

These soft colors peaked in the ’80s and have solidified their spot in the fashion world.

If you’re going to wear pastels, then you better learn color theory and the color wheel.

Woman wearing pastels

When you mix adjacent colors together, it comes off looking too complacent.

When you have complacent pastels together, you’ll definitely age yourself.

If you’re going to rock your pastel colors, then they need to be stunning.

The result of the color clash would look better than if you were putting together similar colors.

Gone are the days when people throw every pastel item in their closet into one outfit.

Fortunately, you have fashion gurus to guide you.

Another TikTok creator@monicabarbosa87shows different ways to style a pastel cardigan.

you might use this technique to style anything pastel as well.

you might even mix two pastel colors with a more aggressive color like black to liven them up.