Wear a conservative necktie to tone down a less conservative suit.
In the photo, a navy blue grenadine necktie reduces the impact of mid-blue linen. Worn with a blue on white striped shirt and a linen and cotton pocket square with a violet border.
Opposites attract.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Opposites Attract
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13 comments:
This look captures the season wonderfully.
Very nicely done, Will. Lovely!
Good buttons.
I think it looks nice, but hasn't Will advised us that monochrome is a bit amateur? Wouldn't another color besides blue be better here, either in the tie or shirt stripes? I don't think the violet pocket square border counts. Or perhaps it's the monochrome that allows it to remain conservative. Still, although nice, I think Will can do better!
Love the colour of the suit.
I like it Will.
Wow! That's a great outfit. What did you wear from the waist down?
Evan,
Perhaps you might like to read Will's answer to your question here.
But what of the old gentleman's adage that the tie should not be dark with a pale suit? I am now utterly confused!
http://davidikus.blogspot.com/
Evan, I may be able to do better but that combination is not monochromatic.
Horatio, below the waist were matching trousers and the tan shoes that I had polished in another post.
Finally, Davidikuss, if there is such an adage you should tell it to HRH Prince Charles, another gentleman who wears dark neckties with his cream linen suit(s).
*ahem* Will, I love you and your blog, but all blue is a monochromatic color scheme (it doesn't have to be grayscale to be monochromatic). From wikipedia:
"For an image, the term monochrome is usually taken to mean the same as black-and-white or, more likely, grayscale, but may also be used to refer to other combinations containing only tones of a single color"
And from about.com:
"A monochromatic color scheme uses a single color... a monochromatic room in blue might use single shade of blue paired with white. Yet it might also include dark blue upholstery fabric, pale blue walls, medium blue draperies, and a patterned area rug that includes both blue anjd white."
Reasonable men may disagree Evan. I choose not to ignore the violet on the square, or the tan shoes that are out of the photo.
What an unexpectedly controversial post!
A well done monochromatic approach has professional-like, not amateur, provenance. Sometimes with a two color scheme within which even the hue or tint is substantially the same. See for example the picture of Agnelli in Flusser's Dressing the Man, page 155: gray suit, gray tie, gray sweater, white shirt; or the Duke, page 226, presumably oxford gray suit, with silver windowpane, silver shirt, silver tie.
As for a dark tie with a light suit or jacket, examples are so numerous as to make the proposition axiomatic.
So if the mood for such strikes, why not enjoy.
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