HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part III - Page 618

Originally Posted by zbromer 



These two combinations pose the same problem to me. On the left, the tie appears to have pindots, but the dots really create small squares that are basically the same size as the gingham pattern on the shirt. On the right, it looks like a grenadine. Like the tie on the left, the tie doesn't technically have a square pattern, but, visually, the weave effectively creates a small square pattern that mimics the pattern in the shirt.

I can see why when grabbing these ties, one could think that they don't have matching patterns with the shirts. Hell, the tie on the right is a solid. However, the visual effect of each just doesn't work for me with the shirts.

Originally Posted by kgmessier 

Can't stop looking at the classy guy in the background wearing a baseball cap.

Originally Posted by Cravate_Noire 


That was foo, he wore a hairpiece-baseball cap to to stay incognito in Naples.

Originally Posted by Van Veen 

The problem with Kevin's look becomes really apparent in black-and-white:



The shirt and suit blend together, and the tie is lighter than the shirt.

Originally Posted by Nonchalant 


V V- While your point regarding the similarity in tone of the subject's shirt and suit may be valid, I don't believe your method of substantiating it is applicable for two reasons. Firstly, I'm not aware that anyone's color blindness is so extreme that they see in black and white and secondly reducing any two adjacent colors to black and white can result in matching shades of gray depending on the hues and saturation. One could easily post a picture in color of a red rose on green grass that in black and white would appear as two identical shades of gray. Point taken... but process not so much.

Originally Posted by Van Veen 

It's just a tool to help diagnose, something that I learned working in graphic design. It's not a hard-and-fast rule.

Originally Posted by kgmessier 

Can't stop looking at the classy guy in the background wearing a baseball cap.

Originally Posted by Withaque 

Sonny58

Love the jacket. I have been wanting to get a vibrant blue SC for a while. Did you pick it up here, in town, recently? Where?

You look like you can pull off a bow tie on regular basis. But this one is not the best choice for the blue jacket/blue shirt combination. try the same outfit with a larger pattern and darker color. It looks like a white tie with a light plaid pattern on it. If this was not a bow tie , but a traditional tie with a four in hand knot, would you have worn it with this fit?

Try the tie with a medium to light gray jacket and a white or off white shirt.

Your last few fits have looked really good. And deets on the jacket, please.

Originally Posted by PaoloM 

The Windsor knot really doesn't work with a knit tie.

Originally Posted by Pieceofsand 

Did the secret service sector took down Victor from Russia?