Yet More Goodbyes

This series of seven and four fold mixes together some great color combos that we have discussed and pictured at length in the past.  Green with Blue as well as the blues with browns.  Pretty ties, but like the others, its time for them to go.

Yesterday I pretty much kept it to one pocket square.  This time I mixed and matched to get a little more variety and to match up what i thought was a better and more correct  option.

I started with the celadon  green and sky blue four or seven fold tie again, against the light blue shirt with the navy blue suit and matched up the geometric vintage square for this look.



I thought though that with the green and blue in the tie we could do better with a green square and decided on this large paisley floral piece:



Which looks like this in play:



Below is the navy version of the same tie.  Again, the predominantly blue color invites the earth tones of the brown right in.  While I probably would have been better off with the blue version of this parasol square I went with the brown for this look:



Which looks like this:



For another option at the square I took this brown small paisley pattern for this look:



In play here:



Tomorrow maybe I will do some options on the navy version.  Meanwhile, have a great day!

Right Tie, Wrong Shirt

I have mentioned in the past but I cant say it enough that contrast is generally your friend. Colors of items can match yet if you group too many of the same color together invariably one or the other item will look wrong.

Here is an example of the colors being correct but the applications being wrong. Rust and orange, works with black and nicely so, yet the use of the rust tie here together with the rust colored check shirt will leave you wanting.



Better in the same pattern is the green shirt, which works well with the black jacket and the contrasting rust tie. The square has a little bit of everything in it so thats no problem.



You might feel that this square is too closely color related to the rust tie and I wont disagree, so to change that you have this square.



Finally, if you absolutely love that orange shirt, change the tie so that you gain your contrast in other ways as so:



Incidentaly, my first Orange Shirt writeup :-) at least the first tag created for an orange shirt that is. Kewl!

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I had planned on this combo before the earlier request came in so here you go.  Again, most of the items are from the Hickey Freeman His First collection so dont expect to see links.  The only thing that is linkable is the square, from the Spring 10 Collection at FIH.

The jacket is black check with a slight brown thread running through it.  Green and the green families (olive etc.) work well with black and the shirt and tie combo are right at home here.  The detail of the square shown just below shows the dark olive green in the square that bring it all together.  The burgundy, black and green.



The detail of the square.  Patterns and colors all well played out here.



If the monochromes of the shirt and tie were not what you wanted to see or if the green tie wasnt to your liking we can also do well with a charcoal grey colored tie in the same family.  No harm done.  Interesting is that the flowers in the tie come back to the paisleys in the square.  That same orange color, showing successfully that there are no colors here that simply don't belong.