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patterned shirts with ties

jgold47

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I generally wear solid or striped shirts with ties, but after a trip to london and time on here, I am fascinated with wearing patterned shirts (checked, gingham, houndstooth, etc...), with a tie as I usually wear them tie less. I have a terrible time however trying to figure out what kind of tie I should be wearing with them.

Specifically, I have this blue gingham shirt I want to wear to an event on thursday. Charcoal grey suit, black shoes, etc... but what kind of tie? Do I contrast the color? Pattern? Etc...

Any advice and especially pictures would be appreciated. I know its hard without seeing my closet, but I am pretty good at interpreting.
 

jgold47

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Originally Posted by chorse123
Black shoes =/= blue gingham shirt

but maybe that's just me.


I am in detroit, it will be at night, and its been nasty out, not feeling the brown right now.

I dont really own any solid ties, although I do have one or two with subtle patterning that could pass for solid from a distance
 

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I have a royalish blue gingham from TM Lewin that I plan on wearing with this tie & a beige poplin suit when the weather breaks (the pink one top center with the beige flowers)

Ties006.jpg


Here's another shot of it although the color is best represented in the top pic (second from the left, bottom row)

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Depending on the shade of blue, orange could work.
 

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+1. The solid orange one (second pic, bottom right) would probably work (resonably) well.


/U.
 

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Don't be affraid of mixing patterns - look at some of Phat Guido's posts in WAYWRN.

I'd guess either of the orange ties would work or the top three from the fourth row, but experiment!
 

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thanks for the adivce - I dont want to wear pink given what time of year it is, and it seems I have quite the selection of blue and/or pink ties, so I will have to experiment. But what I can tell, it seems as if the idea is to contrast (so no blue ties with blue gingham), and have some fun with it. Given that the suggestions all seem to range to 'brighter' colors for this combination, is this not an appropriate shirt to wear to an evening 5pm cocktail type thing?
 

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I doubt it'd be a problem for "cocktail attire".

A navy tie would work as a well. Possible a dark red, a brown, a tan...

Blue/white is a fairly easy combination of shirt colours to work with. The bigger challenge probably isn't choosing the colour, but choosing the pattern. Some patterns work well together, some don't. Stripe-on-stripe is mostly ugly, and it's best to mix scales, because if the two patterns are the same size, you will probably create an optical illusion and you will probably give people headaches. Beyond that, it's just getting your eye in and deciding what patterns you like with what.
 

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