Coordinated Christmas involves choosing specific palettes beyond traditional colours, to create a cohesive festive look for trees, home decor, and often the couple’s festive attire. Not just for the party.
It feels deeply personalised look to have all matchy matchy and deciding on new colour scheme for the Christmas tree, beyond the typical red and green, all about the table scape and the urgent question. What I do wear for the parties and about our family PJs? Burgundy gown and your partner’s burgundy tie matched to the perfection ? At least being in synch with rehashed trend of ,ugly Christmas jumper’? NHL has quite funny tradition for all teams in the league to hold this sort of the party. Forget in the pub. It is about boring or quite creative jumpers, not so ugly, for the couples. It is a first sign of new NHL girlfriend on the block. Sorry, in the ugly Christmas jumper, coordinated with her NHL darling. You know, certain guys will obey or choose to be ,united club’ but without being suited and booted, more like wearing red jumper, the trainers or anything quite random to be ,unissimo’. Wearing family sleepwear on Christmas day is another matter.
It all has deeper roots in history. Not just in psychology and typical Christmas colour schemes, plush fabrics. Maybe little more to do with the jersey, the flag or the colours in the sport and its teams. It speaks about a teamwork, the social cohesion, the shared taste and the sport. Or romantic symbolism. Because humans instinctively read colour harmony as emotional harmony. When a couple matches, even subtly, it communicates loudly. Speak also about mirroring. It’s stylish, but it’s also very symbolic. Over centuries, the symbolism softened but never disappeared.
Victorian couples coordinated for portraits. Edwardian couples matched accessories for balls. 1950s couples matched corsages and pocket squares for dances. Today, we match ties, dresses, and even sneakers, the jumpers, the cap. At medieval tournaments, knights often wore a token from the lady they admired. Speak about courtly love and chivalry. Do you know about the origin of the word ,give me a favour’? The favour was a a small embroidered item, think of Burberry or McQueen with the recent trendy stuff on the cardigans again. Add the scarf, a piece of the fabric, something in the same colour, even for your sport team.
Even something as small as matching shoelaces carries the same historical echo as a knight tying his lady’s ribbon to his armour. You do not be the fashion twins such as denim duo Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears, like the robbers in the black or the Halloween orange presented by Timothee Chamalet and Kylie Jenner. It does not make nice holiday home decor or any cool family festive photos. Very calculated, too big splash of one colour. Crawling back to the Middle Age, courtly love, chivalry and jousting tournaments, the troubadours, a knight wearing a lady’s colours created a narrative. People whispered about it. Songs were written about it. It was the medieval version of a couple arriving at a gala in coordinated outfits. One tie matched to the lady’s dress is enough. You don’t need to be looking like two Siam oranges and your home will survive more than one colour as the couple goals. Just enjoy the festive season. And the parties, meet ups and dressing up. Remember, the communication and looking into the same direction is more than being matched in the visual terms and starring into each other’s eyes.
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