The first thing a man learns about dressing is how to match. Pair navy blue with Pacific blue. Add a touch of gray and a pair of black shoes. Everything relates to everything else. Basic.
Far fewer men move on to the second stage of dress, which can be thought of as harmonization. Clothes do not necessarily need to match, or repeat colors that are present elsewhere in an ensemble. Indeed, in a perfect world they do not. For they only must look good together, like the pocket square that echos none of the other colors in the day's dress but simply looks right. Or, in the case of the photo, the cufflinks that have nothing in common with the blues of the shirt (nor the lavender of the necktie or the grays of the pocket square for that matter). But they harmonize.
Harmonization goes back to the heart of the image that we ideally want our clothes to convey. The one that says that though we own things of a certain quality they are not important to us for we spend little time thinking about our dress.
Harmonize.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Harmonize
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5 comments:
Those are gorgeous! What incredible taste!
Not really.
Green is a colour based on blue and yellow (gold).
And you think that invalidates the premise?
One step away from clashing colours though...a very fine line it is with very nice results if well done...
Wonderful, finally the style blog post I have been looking for. I once tried to explain this way of looking at the different colours found in an ensemble, in one of my own blog posts last year.
Now, the colour of my tie might be a bit unorthodox, but at the time i went throuth somewhat of an orange accessories-period. I am still very fond of the colour, especially combined with navy, khaki and dark brown.
I tried to explain how I do not fint it necessary that every colour in an ensamble, have to be found in another piece of clothing or accessory. Like your example with the pocket square.
To visualize it all, I componed an imaginary club stripe tie-pattern of the exact colours found in the images showing what I wore at the time. Shown in the last picture in the blog post.
Thank you for a very nice blog.
Cordially
Archibald
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