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The blazer/sports jacket paired with odd trousers style is a cornerstone of modern male fashion dressy enough to Cheap Michael Kors Handbags work in the office or at a bar whilst still being casual enough for weekend wear and coffee with friends. Unlike a more conventionally composed suit, the jacket/trousers combination offers immense opportunity for self expression and fun. Choosing the right combinations however, can be a daunting and tricky prospect with a lot of room for error. In light of this, I thrown together a quick reference guide and a few albums to highlight arguably the best and safest options available. Note that whilst I tried Cheap Michael Kors Handbags to avoid influencing it overly with my personal opinions but this is hard to avoid and as such there will be plenty of disagreement. That Nike nfl jerseys china ok!

The colours discussed mostly refer to solid colours as patterns introduce a whole new layer of complexity. In general though, most patterned jackets are dominated by one major colour and can be matched in much the Cheap Polo Ralph Lauren same way. Patterns do allow for a lot more freedom as well, breaking up harder colours and allowing for more innovative and daring combinations.

As a general rule of thumb, dark jackets and light trousers are the easiest combination to work with. The other way around is a bold look that can very easily look bad done wrong and light light/dark dark is certainly the most challenging. Attention and diligence to the shades of both items involved is crucial too close and you will create a mess. Too far apart and your outfit risks looking disconnected or disproportionate. A very dark jacket and a very light pair of trousers can make one Cheap Polo Ralph Lauren look unreasonably top heavy. A good way to fix this is by paying attention to the cut of the jacket a shorter jacket with more open quarters will alleviate and modernise the look. Good if you want to wear a navy jacket with white trousers, for example.

There a general rule of thumb that your upper half “ought” to be darker than your lower half with this style of dress not always correct but a good start to thinking about the reasoning. A darker lower half and a lighter upper half risks visually shortening Cheap Michael Kors Handbags you and messing with your proportions. Light areas are visually expansive and dark areas the opposite (the old advice of black being “slimming”). If you got a belly a lighter jacket might emphasise that, whilst your legs are reduced in presence. Unpleasant.

So in general dark trousers are difficult. Charcoal ones work sometimes due to their greater neutrality but need to be considered carefully. Darker browns can work coherently with an earth palette if done tastefully (think darker brown with a medium green jacket both in heavy fabrics).

Navy however is so traditionally ingrained as being both the colour of choice for suits and for blazers that it weird to see it as a lone pair of trousers. It not greyscale and it not earthy so doesn benefit greatly from the combinations available to those palettes. Therefore you end up with dark trousers that don have a natural home they won clash or actively work against most other colours (blues are dead easy to work with) but compositionally they add little and usually detract.

The question is best answered by taking a look at your life and circumstances. What needs do you have for a suit? Do you require them for work? Do you want one or two around for interviews? Do you go to more up scale bars/restaurants semi reguarly? Do you go to weddings? Etc. Buying a suit simply through the virtue of it being dressy is not necessarily the way forward. However, having one good suit in your wardrobe is a great idea just for those few occasions when they are necessary it no fun scrabbling at the last minute to find something to wear to an important job interview, and your red suit won quite cut it there!

Solid navy is a great choice for a first suit and Suit Supply is definitely one the best options in the lower price brackets. Their Sienna model is very interesting: being quite professional but in a very Italian and slightly trendy manner. High button stance, soft sloping shoulders, ticket pocket and a more delicate S130 wool all give it a very distinctive look and edge. Personally I think the Siennas are at their best for events rather than office wear but it not a bad option in any case. Certainly professional enough for most job interviews, and if you young and slender it work well.

The Ludlow sports coat is in much the same vein trendy and designed for young, svelte people. Here the lapels are razor thin, the cut away of the jacket aggressive and the waist slim. Brown tweed is a great choice for a first sports jacket and it serve you well.

I wouldn overthink things with your jacket purchases there no need to own a navy blazer (I don actually). Their virtue is their versatility: the tweed sports coat you picked out is going to look out of place in the summer/spring due to the material. Conversely, it look excellent in autumn/winter.

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It a bit fashion forward because of the green pants and tassel loafers, and a look like this is obviously not for everyone. But I do think it works and looks pretty good on him because fit and proportions are perfect, allowing him room to play around with expectations in this case subbing in the green pants instead of grey or khaki to give a very different feel to the outfit than normal. The tassel loafers serve to take new era hats wholesale it even one step further away from what expected, while still feeling congruous in formality to the top half, sort of tying everything together.