How to choose a color for your dog harness?
I regularly get ladies visiting me who come with their dog for a measuring session, but they find choosing a color difficult. Maybe it helps if you ask yourself these questions before choosing a color. If you want to put together the colors for your dog's harness yourself, you will always end up with a custom harness.
Eye-catching harness for your dog or not?
The first question I always ask is do you want a flashy harness or do you want the harness to blend in with your dog's coat? Of course there is a difference between flashy and flashy, but we'll get to that in a moment.
So question 1 do you want the harness to blend in with the coat? If so, then for a black dog you go for black or grey, for a light dog for beige for example and for a cognac/brown colored dog for cognac or dark brown. Do you find this too pale or do you think that the harness will disappear too much in the coat? Then you can also go for dark brown for a light dog or for a calm, more striking color such as dark blue or warm purple for example.
To make it even easier you can also go for 2 colors for example. You can still keep these colors calm of course. For example combine cognac with beige or cognac with orange.
Of course you can also do the full package. And by that I mean that you put 4 different colors in the harness. These can be 4 matching colors ( check out the limited collection, they usually contain multiple color combinations together) or 4 colors that are not in the same color line. You can also go for 1 bright color such as a pink harness, a red harness for your dog, bright blue harness for your dog, dog harness in bright green, purple or lilac dog harness or a yellow harness for your dog.
Do you want a cool harness for your dog?
You can also choose the width of the harness. Is your dog under 8 kilos? Then a 15mm wide harness is best for you. Is your dog somewhere between 10 and 15 kilos? Then you can take a 20mm wide harness. But is he just in between? Then you can ask the question, do I want a cool harness or can it be a little less noticeable? If you go for the first option, I would recommend a 20mm harness and otherwise the narrower 15m.
This also applies to the 25mm harnesses that I make. Is your dog 20 kilos or heavier? Then I do recommend this width, but it is not between 15 and 20 kilos. Then you ask yourself again do I want a cool harness or can it be a little less noticeable?
Mix and match colors
As you just read, you can go wild with the colors. You can choose a quiet harness of 1 color and a basic color, but you can also go wild with 4 different colors. For inspiration, I recommend checking out the limited collection anyway. This always has different colors. A new limited collection comes online at least twice a year.
You can also match a custom leash with a custom harness in different colors. The leash can be in a maximum of 2 different colors. I always stitch 2 layers of leather together and these can of course also be 2 different colors. Of course, a leash can also be made in 1 color. This choice is of course entirely up to you.
Are you still having trouble choosing a color? Then book a measuring session and come to our studio in Alblasserdam. I will measure your dog and you can also see all the colors we currently have in stock live.