English style: no brown in town?

[Fishbone]

So I am fascinated with English style, my suits are of English cuts. I have heard alot about the so called "no brown in town", but I have not fully understood to what extent it applied. Is it only to suits? Casual outfits? Is tweed and brown ok?

In English style how and when are brown shoes worn?

I want to try to keep as much English-consistency as possible in my style but I would also want to incorporate something different other than my black shoes that I own.

 

[Chouan]

Essentially it is an obsolete expression describing an obsolete business style when formal business suits were dark, grey/black/blue based and were worn exclusively with black shoes for work in a city.
Brown/green suits and brown shoes were casual dress and were not worn in a city, and the wearers of them would not visit a city when they weren't working, so essentially brown was informal and for wear only in the country.

 

[maxalex]

It is difficult to take seriously, much less enforce, crusty dress codes about colors in the city during an age when billionaires wear hoodies to important meetings. Sometimes even brown hoodies.

You can safely forget that old canard unless you are a big-city lawyer or investment banker, in which case you would already know the code for your profession.

 

[Fishbone]

I see!! Thank you for the replies! I will keep that in mind!

currently looking to expand into a pair of dark brown oxfords

 

[Mr Knightley]

You would be quite correctly dressed today in London with a navy suit, for example, and dark brown oxford shoes. Plainer styles work better.