Rock The Contrast

If you are gonna wear a light color jacket take advantage of it and rock the contrast with a really dark tie for this effect.


With the square detail shown here.



Of course you can still look nice with a tie toned similar to the jacket while working off the contrast of the shirt as so:



If you will note, in the next photo I repositioned the square so as to leave out most of the red and just show the yellow hand rolled edge against the blue.



Have a great weekend!  :-)

And yes, for the Title of the post, I was inspired by the 80's The Clash hit, Rock The Casbah

Tie By Tie 4a (The Spoken Request)

Off to a Holiday party but here are some shots taken when I was in the store upon Jason's request from the previous posts comment's.

Links and commentary to follow at a later time:

EDIT: Links and comments inserted

Here is the English Twill Tie posted earlier against a French Blue shirt with the Hickey Freeman Jacket and Royal Blue Floral Square.  If you look closely you can see the blue in the jacket coming alive in with this shirt and square.


As Jason mentioned to me in an email (correctly so) the darker blue really makes the combo pop.  Not so with the Lighter blue shirt:



The lighter blue shirt with a white and blue pin dot tie and a light blue linen square.


And as per the original request the chevron tie in off white with the floral square.

I see the light

Light colored ties can be worn regularly and need not be reserved for affairs and elegant occasions so long as care is taken to highlight the tie by way of contrast with the shirt so that the tie stands out somewhat.

Here are some examples of the same two light colored ties and the differences the shirt can make in the overall appearance of the ensemble.

This English twill four fold tie goes from the somewhat drab against this white shirt:  (In all cases I utilized a white linen square so that it doesnt pull the eye away from the tie which is what I wanted to show)



To looking like this when placed against a blue shirt:



This white woven pin dotted tie looks like this against the white shirt:



But comes more alive when placed against the blue.