purple gingham shirt + navy suit = What tie?

[micbain]

Looking for suggestions for a purple gingham shirt coupled w/ navy suit. Ideas? Pictures would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Manton]

Solid black or solid gray grenadine. Solid blue would also work, but is more predictable and dull.

 

[gdl203]

Can't imagine any tie that would look good with this. If the gingham is lighter than purple (lilac?), then maybe a dark purple or navy tie. I would personally keep a purple gingham shirt for a no-tie look

 

[Antonio Centeno]

Can we get a picture of the suit and shirt?

 

[alliswell]

Purple, blue and white striped knit tie, from BB last year.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting

 

[micbain]

Here is a picture of the shirt. No picture of the suit; however, navy isn't hard to imagine.





Should this shirt be matched which a charcoal suit instead? If so, which tie for that combo?

 

[lee_44106]

Purple and charcoal gray is a killer combo. I would go with a charcoat suit than blue suit.

 

[gnatty8]

Not sure I would call that a gingham shirt..

 

[micbain]

Originally Posted by gnatty8

Not sure I would call that a ginham shirt..

What would it be?

 

[denning]

That's neither purple, nor gingham. When you said purple gingham I thought of a shirt in this fabric, which I have from Jantzen. Now this is purple gingham.

 

[gnatty8]

Not sure, would that be a graph check? When I think gingham, I think of the shirts below. Actually, I have a purple gingham purple label shirt also that I wore the other day, but took it to the cleaners. Will post a pic when I get it back with the tie I wore with it. Wore it with a charcoal suit, but imagine it could look good with khaki also.

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by gnatty8

Not sure I would call that a ginham shirt..
I agree. I pictured this: http://harvieandhudson.com/product-view.phtml?id=1239 which I would have no trouble putting a red tie on. The shirt Micbain posted is a little washed out and more lilac like and could either take color such as a strong pink, purple, red, royal blue etc or even a navy. I would actually avoid greys and black solids. That's just my impression. A lot of it depends on where you are, what you're wearing the tie both with and for but I am thinking business in a big city, America or Western Europe. If you were wearing this for social I might wear a mustard or golden colored tie with some color in it...like purple.

 

[centalones]

Yeah, I'm not sure that qualifies as a gingham check.

This, on the other hand, is a purple gingham shirt:

I was hoping the thread would be about a shirt like this one, because I have one just like it.

 

[Gus]

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[micbain]

LOL @ Me. Sorry gents for the wrong description; however, my problem of which tie to wear with this shirt remains.