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Charcoal pants with dark brown suede shoes, yay or nay?

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I think the color combination is great, but I'm a little iffy on the slacks/suede shoes combo. I think I'd have to see them together to have a strong opinion.

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bowtielover offers the worst sartorial advice ever, I am just telling the OP the 'rules' as I believe they exist. There is a joke often said in England that Americans 'wear brown shoes to funerals'. This is owing to their tendency to wear brown shoes in many inappropriate situations.

You guys make jokes about our shoes? Don't you have anything better to do? No wonder the Empire collapsed.
 

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Well, I think chocolate suede works well with mid and charcoal gray flannels.
 

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Originally Posted by MrG
I think the color combination is great, but I'm a little iffy on the slacks/suede shoes combo. I think I'd have to see them together to have a strong opinion.
I wish I could provide you with a photo. For the record, the slacks are quite thick in wool, so they're not from a business suit or anything.
 

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Originally Posted by MrG
You guys make jokes about our shoes? Don't you have anything better to do? No wonder the Empire collapsed.

ooh looks like I rattled your cage.
 

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Originally Posted by Patrician
I wish I could provide you with a photo. For the record, the slacks are quite thick in wool, so they're not from a business suit or anything.

This sounds quite nice. I can see where a heavier fabric would go very well with suede shoes.

Originally Posted by BareSolid
ooh looks like I rattled your cage.

Sorry to disappoint, but you didn't. I'm just genuinely suprised and amused that Brits have jokes about Americans' shoes. I'd like to think that, if I got to the point where I was cracking jokes about the shoe preferences of people in a country 4,000 miles away, I would find a new way to occupy my time (perhaps I'd take a up a hobby).
 

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doable.

Aeglus - maybe not quite "there", but a look in progress. something along these lines
greysuitgreentiebluesoc.jpg


Small snapshot of ManOfKent, I imagine a different sportscoat, plus cardigan, etc. basically mixed accessories creates a casual but formed look. a suit and tie plus suede = disjointed
suedebroguedwingtipsalf.jpg


I also seem to recall Gnatty8 doing this a lot. Not suede I realize, but here's the same idea, light grey flannel and brown, just swap for suede.
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leon_winter_10.jpg
 

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Originally Posted by MrG
Sorry to disappoint, but you didn't. I'm just genuinely suprised and amused that Brits have jokes about Americans' shoes. I'd like to think that, if I got to the point where I was cracking jokes about the shoe preferences of people in a country 4,000 miles away, I would find a new way to occupy my time (perhaps I'd take a up a hobby).
One doesn't 'find time' for that sort of thing, it's just a cross-cultural joke made by Britons about Americans rooted in some truth. A bit like how Yanks manage to 'find time' to accuse the British of having messed up teeth... your cage is really rattled, admit it.
 

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If your going for more of a casual look then yay if not then nay.
 

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Originally Posted by BareSolid
One doesn't 'find time' for that sort of thing, it's just a cross-cultural joke made by Britons about Americans rooted in some truth. A bit like how Yanks manage to 'find time' to accuse the British of having messed up teeth... your cage is really rattled, admit it.

Sorry, my resident of Britain antagonist, but I've made a resolution to avoid being baited by untalented trolls, so no dice.
 

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Yes

From Alan Flusser (Clothes and the Man):

Unlike the Duke of Windsor, suede shoes were considered proper only for country attire. Once he took them to town, however, men immediately recognized the kind of soft elegance a suede shoe could offer in juxtaposition with the severe worsted suit. It remains the most elegant accompaniment to the business suit. The suede tie-up - either a wing-tip or cap-toe - offers practically limitless versatility, for it is a proper complement to as wide a range of wear as that encompassed by a seersucker suit to a sharkskin worsted, in any color from gray to green, in any season. Needless to say, it is probably not the shoe to wear in a stuffy bank atmosphere, or in a drenching spring downpour. But with these exceptions, there is probably no other shoe that can play so many roles in a man's wardrobe.
 

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I'm not a fan of brown shoes whether they be calf or suede with any shade of grey. I much prefer black.
 

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Originally Posted by westinghouse
I don't like suede with dress slacks. Jeans, yes. Slacks, no. Nay. A preemptive "**** you" to the *** who criticizes my criticism.

Nice.
 

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Bumping this because I was about to ask the very same question. (Search FTW!)

Adding to the OP's question, what socks and belt would be appropriate for the combination he put forth?

- Keith
 

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