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Need help with tie coordination for a bengal shirt

post #1 of 10
10/14/11 at 7:31pm
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I recently picked up a bengal shirt from Brooks Brothers with thin, dark blue stripes. I know to avoid ties with a pattern that is similar in size, but I'd like to know what you all thought would be appropriate both in color and pattern.

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post #2 of 10
10/15/11 at 12:00am
Solids, polka dots, pindots, wowen ties!
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post #3 of 10
10/15/11 at 1:09am
I'm rather passionate about a plain grenadine tie with Bengal stripe.
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post #4 of 10
10/16/11 at 1:57am
I'm quite the opposite. Of all the non-plain shirtings, bengal is the blankest canvas there is. Just don't take a tie with a small pattern.
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post #5 of 10
10/16/11 at 3:12am
Polka dots or wide stripes. Solids would work too.
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post #6 of 10
10/16/11 at 4:20am

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Originally Posted by Blackhood View Post

I'm rather passionate about a plain grenadine tie with Bengal stripe.


was about to post this but you beat me to it +1

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post #7 of 10
10/16/11 at 4:36am
A plain woolen with texture (given the season) could be quite appropriate.
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post #8 of 10
10/16/11 at 6:42am

I think bengal stripes need two things in a tie: a darker colour and a wider pattern.

 

Solids - even textured solids - can be too flat against the vibrancy of the shirt especially if they're not darker than the shirt. Check out these combinations I used with a couple of bengal striped shirts over the course of this year for a few examples of some attempts that worked and some that fell flat on their face:

 

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The most successful ones IMO are #2 & #5 (numbering from L>R, then working down), followed by #3 and #4. The least successful is #8 IMO, because it's a solid in too light a colour. But the darker #7 doesn't work either despite also being a textured solid because the lack of a pattern in the tie just seems "dead" against the shirt. Of course, people like different effects, but that's what I see.

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post #9 of 10
10/16/11 at 6:16pm
Thread Starter 

Thanks so much for your input guys, and I really appreciate your pictures Holdfast. Is #7 a navy grenadine style tie?

 

Also for #2, is the bengal stripe a navy blue or an indigo? The shirt I have is more of an indigo.

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post #10 of 10
10/18/11 at 7:04am

The two shirts in the pics are a navy and a dark red/burgundy. The slightly different colours of them between snaps is down to different lighting and poor photography. #2 is the red.

 

The tie in #7 is probably a black grenadine, but it could have been dark navy (I have both, and can't really remember which that is, but I bet it's the black).

 

Coincidentally enough, I'm wearing a purple bengal-stripe (well, almost bengal-stripe) today. Not exactly conservative... ;) (pic's in the WAYWRN thread if you're interested).

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