Tie By Tie 26 (More “Just Ins”)

Using the same sportscoat from last week I thought to show some more options which you can see here:

Oddly I didn’t shoot this with the square in the pocket.  Not sure why ;-).  I like the blue shirt with the grey and the coffee brown tie with the grey jacket and it helps to pull the check in the jacket out as well.  All shown with the honey jar square.

Here with the pink twill tie.  I like this look

Not sure about this tie here.  Looked better when I was taking it but here in the pic it doesn’t look that great.

Finally, a little Wintery coloration here with the dark satin based stripe.

Just a heads up, the buying season is getting hot and heavy and in fact I leave for Italy on Wednesday evening, so it may get a little spotty over the next few weeks, but I will do my best and will be back so don’t give up on me 🙂

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Even Brown

Picking up on last weeks black and white theme, a comment was thrown out about brown being destined to fail against a black suit white shirt background.

I promised I would and now I do challenge that way of thinking with the following photos.   To make it fair I have attached a poll so that readers can themselves decide (but bear in mind that the issue wasn’t if its the BEST match, the issue was if it would fail).

The first photo is almost unfair because its brown against black in the tie, but thats really the point. The tie is striking and nice and that just goes to show that brown and black do go well together. I could almost have stopped here but lets play with this a little. (Onix, you will get your turn 🙂 )

This second combo has brown moving away from the black in the tie and going it alone.  The different shades of brown and the brown family in the tie allow for some coordination that everyone is familiar with already from here.  Black with rust, with beige,  and there may even be some steely blue or clay grey in there if you look close.

The satin in this almost pure brown tie against the stark white of the shirt works to give a serious yet elegant touch in this ensemble.

Brightening up a little and less severe, while this somewhat solid tie is not the greatest combo I personally would NOT say that its off.

Throwing in a little color.  What you see here is a brown, purpley blue, and pink tie against the black.  Again here all the colors work independantly with the black and as a blend work as well.  Would they work better with another color suit?  Of course.  Do they fail here?  Hardly.

Finally, a primarily beige with shades of brown tie.  You have heard the terminology “golden brown” and gold works really well with black.  Shyould it come as a shock that brown does too?

Now vote! 🙂