So I have been talking to Tess about this because she is experimenting with a season-based color-matching thing. This season thing argues that different colors work for different people, but for me, I cut colors fairly coarsely without regards for tone.
As I see it, purple through teal look relatively good on me, purple especially, but only in medium-dark shades. Same for black, brown, and maroon. Of these I tend to favor purple because it is my favorite color, and blue because it is an acceptable neutral color. I would wear indigo and violet too, except I rarely see shirts in those colors.
I have a red face and believe that magenta, red, pink, and green all bring out the redness in my face. I do not think those colors will ever look good on me. Orange does too to an extent, though less so than red, magenta, and pink, and I like orange enough to sometimes wear it anyways when I own an orange shirt. Gray I think highlights the redness in my face a bit, but since dark gray shirts tend to be cheap and inoffensive I often have a few of them anyways. Gray is not a color I think I would ever wear if money were no object.
I think that light colors such as yellow, white, light blue, and lime look bad on me as well, because they tend to highlight that I am fat. Even lavender looks bad on me for this reason, and I love lavender. However if I lost weight, I think that lavender, light blue, and (dark) lime would all look decent on me, while yellow and white would probably draw out the redness of my face.
If I had money to get a variety of decent clothes in styles and materials I liked (since I am fat literally the only way this will happen before I lose weight is if I get them tailored) my wardrobe would be dominated by purple and violet shirts with some blues and indigos plus a few teals, blacks, browns, and maroons, and a solitary orange shirt. If I were normal weight I add have some lavenders, light blues, and at least one lime shirt as well. For my bottom half I would have kilts in a variety of colors and patterns in dark cool colors (which might incorporate red and/or dark green because kilts usually do and they will not be near my face), while all of my pants would be identical black slacks with purple pinstripes.
How about y'all? What colors do you think look good on you, and how would you dress if money were not an issue?