Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 19 – The Grey Suit
With the last couple of week’s articles done and dusted, you should now know what you’re looking for when purchasing a suit and have a rough idea of how to make it suit your body type as well. But now the real question is which suit are you going to buy? Because let’s face it, there are plenty out there! With this being fashion basics, I’ll try to keep things as simple as possible on our way to building a respectable business wardrobe to compliment your beautiful casual one. So we should start off with the most versatile and indestructible suit of them all; the grey suit. An amazing piece of tailoring that can see you through from your first day on the job all the way to your final presentation to the board. There is nothing it can’t do. Even if you’re only going to need your suit for weddings/funerals/special occasions, this is still the one suit you should always have in your wardrobe. I would suggest that you get it in a medium grey colour because lighter shades will suggest Southern American Lawyer From Louisiana and charcoal is reserved for Cary Grant and Michael Caine. A medium grey can sit itself perfectly in the middle, making it as appropriate for a summer wedding as well as your daily office work. But what can you wear with it? Well, if I’m being honest, what can’t you wear with a grey suit? It is such a versatile colour anyway so as long as the fit and feel of it are bang on then you can’t go wrong. As anyone will tell you, pairing it with a crisp white shirt with black tie and shoes is a great look, if a little too easy and obvious at times. But it will also go well with soft blue and pink shirts for simple way of adding colour into your suit and almost any colour tie under the sun will look great next to grey. However, my personal favourite to pair with a grey suit are items that add a pattern to an otherwise subdued outfit. Gingham shirts especially in black, blue or red/pink will always look great and stripe ties really help bring it to life. Just remember to stick to one pattern for now, so if the shirt has a pattern keep the tie solid so as to anchor the whole look and vice versa.