Methodology
How we build these guides
The color, style and occasion guides on Clad9 start from a fixed structure: color theory, garment conventions and dress codes. Here is what that structure is, what a language model adds to it, and how we check the result.
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The structure comes first
Every color on Clad9 carries a real hex code, a color family, an undertone and a seasonal-palette classification. Color pairings follow the standard relationships of color theory: complementary, analogous and neutral-anchored. Occasions carry the dress codes people actually use, from black tie to smart casual.
That structure lives in our database before a word is written about it. A language model never decides that two colors go together; it is handed a relationship that already exists.
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A language model writes the explanation
Once a pairing or a dress code is in place, a language model (Claude, through AWS Bedrock) writes the plain-English explanation of why it works: the part you read on the page. It explains a relationship; it isn't asked to invent one.
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Every draft is checked before it's published
Each new explanation is compared with every explanation already on the site using an embedding-similarity check. A draft that reads too close to something already published is held back and rewritten, so what you read was written for that page, not lightly reworded boilerplate.
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Guidance, not a stylist who has met you
These guides are general styling guidance grounded in real conventions: a quick starting point, not personal advice from someone who has seen your closet, your coloring or your build. Clad9's daily looks are different: they're planned from the clothes you've catalogued, for your weather and your calendar.