Tie and Square with Charcoal Suit (pics)

[Lebowski10]

Gents,

I have an upcoming event and i'm undecided on which tie and square to match. I'm new to silk squares and would like to venture out of my white-linen-tv-fold comfort zone. The suit is a wool charcoal and the shirt a white cotton (my only shirt with a respectable collar for suit wear). Most pictures feature a navy grenadine tie i just picked up from Kent Wang - I figured this would be the most SF approved (it's also my favorite of the bunch). If it factors in at all, I plan to wear Merlot shoes...though i'm toying with the idea of a dark chocolate brown. Apologies about the photo quality - I changed lighting after a few...colors seem much more true in the later photos.

Suit / Shirt as a whole

Square #1 - new silk from Kent Wang...i really like this, but the navy might be too close to the tie?

Square #2 - boring white linen, tv fold

Square #3 - white linen with red edging

Square #4 - silk, i like this

Square #5 - silk, i'm not so sure this works...awkward pattern?

Square #6 - silk, i like this...but again, the navy might be too close to the tie?

Square #7 - silk, not sure how i feel about it

Close up of squares 7, 6, 1, 4, and 5

Cheap printed tie - but i like the look of this combo if i could find a similar tie of greater quality make

Other tie options

Any thoughts would be appreciated! Maybe pairings with other ties? I'm open to any, but prefer the grenadine. Feel free to suggest new ties / squares entirely - my collection could use some new additions.

 

[GBR]

Don't try to match square to tie at any stage, that is crass beyond belief, They compliment one another.

Square 3 wants burning forthwith, the others have their places.

The last tie is OK as a design but if it is a cheap print, burn that at the same time. Just set off to find similar but better.

 

[Lebowski10]

How would these two hold up with the navy grenadine?

http://luxire.com/collections/accessories/products/princess_and_the_suiters_pocket_square

http://luxire.com/collections/accessories/products/pocket-square-canaletto

the gold / earthy tones would compliment?

 

[Lebowski10]

ohhhh or this from Conrad?

http://www.conradwu.com/collections/pocket-squares/products/orange-pocket-square

 

[tim_horton]

I like squares 1,2, and 6, and to a lesser extent 5. 7 looks like a tie pattern to me, just an opinion. Stick with the original tie, it's a classic.

 

[Master-Classter]

i like squares 1 & 6, maybe 5. That geometric tie is really bad. The one to it's left with the heavy crisscross pattern is terrible too. Your navy grenadine replaces both of them.

 

[cptjeff]

Any square from 1-7 works. You're wearing a charcoal suit, white shirt, and plain navy tie. That's an incredibly basic outfit (though a nice one)- you get to add a pattern. Any pattern. Complexities of pattern matching come into play when you have more than one pattern to worry about.

And I agree that that geometric tie is awful.