See the attached chart.  Agree, disagree?  What do you think?

Do you also agree that the belt should match the shoes?

What about socks?  Should be similar color family to pants unless you are trying to make a statement?

What are some shoes, socks and pants combinations with socks to make a statement?



What about adding a blazer?  What colors go together?

That's ghey.

Take that trailer trash behavior back to GD.

If by "classic shoes" they're talking about dress shoes, that seems pretty reasonable to me.  As far as the other two that represent "contemporary", it's hard to say as there are some (to me) fairly odd colors in the tables I just wouldn't wear, like red trousers or orange/purple/red shoes.  If it were me I'd just stick with casual shoes in black, a couple shades of brown, and maybe burgundy.  I'd also add burgundy shoes to the "classic" table as well.

I mix it up. Like yesterday for example...

Dark blue chambray button down

Orange tie with green purple and blue and yellow paisley.

Olive pants, cognac brown shoes and belt and navy sock with red orange and purple stripes.

Got complements from the ladies all day.

Looking good and smelling good will get you pretty dang far.

I think if it works it works

Who wears red pants?

other than that, i agree with the classic chart.

Sorry for the delayed response.

I am not sure on the red pants thing.  I guess whatever floats your boat.

I took the contemporary to refer to both design and/or color and not necessarily both at the same time and classic is just referring to the 3 classic colors of shoes.

I would think most people would have burgundy or similar color dress shoes and I would consider that more classic than contemporary.

I’ve been using mainly brown, tan and burgundy shoes with matching belts (not a huge fan of black shoes, although did just pick up a pair of black cordovan cap-toe oxfords).  With that I use gray pants in in different shades, navy pants and some dress wool pants that are kind of gray, kind of light brown-tanish. Then for socks I try to get relatively close in base color at different shades, maybe some very mild patterns.

Shirts are pretty low key, mild patterns or solids, rarely wear ties.

I wouldn’t mind being a bit bolder on the socks, but I don’t have much of an eye for picking that kind of thing.  I’ve asked for some for Christmas, so we’ll see what a couple of ladies are able to come up with for me.

For blazers I just go with a navy or a brownish-gray jacket, but I don’t wear them very often.

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Tan is definitely the most versatile. They look good with beige, tan, brown, blue, navy, grey and charcoal. Half my dress shoes are tan because I wear them the most. Brown gets the second most wear, then mahogany quite a bit with navy, charcoal and sometimes black. I only wear black shoes with black pants and typically only for funerals or very formal occasions.

IMO black is an incredibly overused color.  God forbid you tell some of the people around here that a black suit isn't meant to be everyday wear.  Then again, there's also arguments about why anyone should be bothered to dress up any more than a polo shirt and clean jeans, or taking your hat off indoors/at the table.

yeah you uncivilized oaf, this is a technical forum