Before heading out to a gallery, some people might be thinking, "I wonder if it'll be crowded or not" or “Ugh, I hope there are no kids on a school trip,” but it's rare that someone's initial thoughts are, "fuck, what am I going to wear?"
If you want to go to your favorite gallery in style, but don’t have a clue of where to start with your outfit, don’t panic, because it’ll be easy to decide once I fill you in on one golden rule: the walls are your canvas. In order to figure out what to wear based on the golden rule can be done in one of three ways:
1. The first requires a little homework: choose a piece of art you admire and make your outfit match that color palette.
This can easily be done by looking up the gallery (on Instagram) because nine times out of ten hundreds of other people have already posted standing next to numerous works of art. Easy. Just remember when you coordinate an outfit with a piece of art to establish a sense of balance (you want to be stylish, but still let the art speak more than your outfit).
2. Put together an outfit of your style to make the plain/marble walls throughout the gallery pop.
This option is probably the easiest of the golden rule because you’re basically having a free photo shoot in a glamorous gallery. Now this rule doesn’t mean to legit wear anything, but to express your style according to the mood of the gallery. Meaning, you wouldn’t want to wear sweats and a hoodie to the National Gallery, but if you were going to the Fashion and Textile museum then this would make sense.
3. Play it safe by wearing neutral colors (tan, black, white or grey)
This option is strictly, keeping it simple. you can either wear all black, or different hues of neutral colors (white, black, tan, brown, grey, silver, etc.). dressing this way will bring attention to the art around you, but still give off the personal touch of your outfit. Here in London there are over 50 main museums and galleries that offer a creative journey. Some of the best museums to get dressed up to go to are: the British Museum, Saatchi Gallery, Fashion and Textile Museum.
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