Removing an orangish/red color cast?

I have a .jpg that was shot outside in the shade of a subject wearing orange surrounded by pumpkins and the whole image seems to have an orangish/red cast to it. I played with Levels a bit, though that did not remove the cast. I am not good with Curves. What are some other ways I can remove the cast?
Thanks.

Color Balance and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers. Color balance is just three sliders (cyan/red, magenta/green, and yellow/blue). It doesn't give you the control of curves, but you get the simplicity of sliders. Use those to balance out a decent looking color, then if needed you can tone down any extra orange/red by doing a hue/saturation layer, select "red" and expand the range on the bottom to include some orange, and move the saturation down a little bit. If you move the saturation down all the way you can see what tones your affecting, then move it up to where you like.
Edit: I didn't read your post very well on my first pass; just noticed the comment about wearing orange and surrounded by pumpkins. Heh. I would do the above in reverse, start with a hue/sat layer and pull down orange a bit so the whole image doesn't scream orange. Then go into your color balance and cool it a bit more. If you want to really give a go at editing, you can mask off some of the orange so you cool down everything else besides the orange. Blue and orange are complimentary colors, they should go well together.
Also, when I have images that are too dominant in one color I usually find that a general desaturation of the entire image helps. Not a ton, just to take the edge off. Besides, the cool desaturated look screams Autumn, IMHO.

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