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My wife and I at the Charity Preview for the Detroit Auto Show. We were decked out in velvet.
A velvet dinner jacket with a tie ?
Yes, red velvet that matched my wife's dress. Let me guess, there is some "style" rule out there that says you can not wear a velvet dinner jacket with a tie?
Yes, red velvet that matched my wife's dress. Let me guess, there is some "style" rule out there that says you can not wear a velvet dinner jacket with a tie?
Welcome to Styleforum, where strongly held opinions are quite common.
In the context of the other accessories with which you wore the velvet jacket (grey flannel trousers and a plain white shirt), a four-in-hand tie isn't that out of place. Had you been wearing a tuxedo shirt and trousers, I would have found the four-in-hand tie more out of place, but that is my personal preference. Velvet jackets get dressed up and down a good deal - you took a somewhat more casual approach - nothing wrong with that. Chacun a son gout.
Yes, red velvet that matched my wife's dress. Let me guess, there is some "style" rule out there that says you can not wear a velvet dinner jacket with a tie?
It's always fun (and perhaps cringe-inducing in some of our cases) to look back at old outfits. Though your picture is from a while ago, a couple of uncontroversial but potentially enlightening comments for those who still lurk this thread in hopes of learning something (if I recall, there was some discussion this thread no longer offering constructive criticism): * Even if you had dimpled the tie, that knot is too big for the width of the blade. A skinny tie should be capable of making a skinny, smallish knot. * The pattern AND the scale of the pocket square are both too similar to those of the (very nice) jacket. I am sure exceptions exist, but generally both the scale and pattern of the square should be distinct from those of the jacket. ---