Black tie, black shirt

[FriskyFrog]

I need advice with one more combination please. Can I wear a black tie, with a black shirt and charcoal grey pants in a business setting? I think it all goes well and matches but I don't want to look like I'm going to a funeral.

Thx!

Oh, and just to show that I'm actually learning something about fashion, a tie should never be the same pattern as the shirt, right? In the example below, this tie works but a tie with vertical stripes would not work with a shirt with vertical stripes, right?

 

[cptjeff]

You can't wear that in any setting whatsoever. Burn that shirt. Rule #1: tie darker than shirt.

If you don't know what you're doing, you need to be wearing shirts that are predominantly white, or predominately light blue. Start there.

 

[FriskyFrog]

lmao! Can at least wear the shirt without a tie? Perry Ellis must have made it for a reason.

 

[unbelragazzo]

They made it because you'd buy it.

You can wear it out clubbin' with your bros. not for the office though.

 

[Veremund]

Firstly, burn those shirts. Secondly, try to find a tie with vertical stripes.

 

[Ennius]

Black shirt and black tie combos only really work for boxing promoters and titty bar bouncers.

 

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Can I wear a [...] black shirt [...] in a business setting?

No.

 

[GBR]

It can be done in an informal setting.

 

[AlexE]

Black shirt and tie works very well in business IF your business is to bring the girls to the brothel in the afternoon and pick them up again at night

 

[Punjabjat]

No...black shirt and tie does not go well in business settings...