We grew up watching sports, movies and reading about sexy swimsuit models. We played basketball and attended football games. But never, did we learn about color theory or recognizing what clothes match with what articles. We just had no idea. Neither did we seem to care. Until we realized this all important truth; Evolving into our highest potential as a gentleman requires paying attention to finer details in life. And one of those happens to be clothing.
Generally, the closer a layer of clothing is to our body, the easier it is to match. Take a layer or two away, and matching suddenly becomes a much more arduous task. We now have layers beneath to match and contrast against, and we are all of a sudden dumbfounded. In creating this content, I would like to point out three critical components to pay attention to when matching ties to your suits and shirts.
These should help you navigate through this article better and help you maintain a sense of what is important when choosing ties that best match your suits and shirts. The first component of matching ties is color. Color may seem arbitrary to many of us. Hence, the color wheel. A color wheel is a great foundation for understanding color. It is largely divided into two camps.
Warm and Cool Colors. Warm colors exhibit vibrance, such as red, orange and yellow. Cooler colors are associated with calm, such as blue, green and purple. The concept of a color wheel allows us to harmonize colors. Harmony is the process of creating a balanced look. As we will see below, what creates ideal color harmony is a situation where we have a warm color set against a cool color, hence creating visual contrast and an element of pop, something that we would all like to achieve when strutting our latest suit, shirt and necktie ensemble.
As mentioned above, the color wheel largely divides colors into two camps, warm and cool colors. Using a color wheel, we can create color schemes that will help us achieve the all important concept of harmony. Below is a list of the major color schemes working from schemes with lower intensity and contrast to the boldest color schemes. The Dark Knot Tip : When first starting out with matching ties to your suits and shirts, it is best to work with the color schemes below listed first and to gradually work your way up to a complementary boldest color scheme.
If you are looking for ties that match shirt colors in your wardrobe, please feel free to use our filtered search system here where you can find ties based on matching shirt colors. All of our ties come packaged in an elegant black gift box, along with a card with recommendations for matching suits and shirts. Our products also come with a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee Our Customers are always happy but if you are not we promise to return your funds! This is the easiest way to start experimenting with color and also the most conservative color scheme.
A monochromatic color scheme matches darker variants of a color with lighter variants e. This will allow you to look elegant and sophisticated, without necessarily taking you out of your comfort zone.
A monochromatic scheme is a safe and easy way to look dapper and can be used in any setting, from work, to presentations, meetings and even more formal social settings such as a wedding. Courtesy of runnineverlong. The next progressive step for the aspiring dapper gentleman , an analogous color scheme is one step bolder than using a monochromatic color sequence.
This color combination involves choosing adjacent colors on the color wheel. While this generally means wearing tie colors that are either cool or warm colors, and hence not introducing harmony yet warm and cool color balance , this does introduce an element of sophistication without being overtly bold.
Examples of this include wearing a purple tie with a blue shirt, or an olive green tie with a blue shirt! Analogous color schemes are soothing to the eye, and hence can be used at work or in more social settings!
Courtesy of stevetillystyle. A Triadic Color Scheme involves choosing colors that form a triangle along the color wheel. Finally, we now have a color scheme that involves harmony creating a balance between warm and coll colors. Hence, triadic color schemes are blue, red and yellow and green, orange and purple. While both of these color schemes involve both warm and cool colors, the contrast is not as strong as with a complementary color scheme.
This slightly muted, but highly attractive color scheme, is a great way to introduce color into your wardrobe. For almost all men, triadic colors are something that they have experimented with in the past. This is why a red tie looks great against a blue shirt, as would a darker, mustard yellow. A triadic color scheme is a highly professional yet versatile scheme, and so can be used at work, in professional settings such as meetings and presentations, and for formal social events such as a wedding or elegant horse race!
The Dark Knot Tip : To pull off an exemplary, stylistic look, as in the case above, have one of the these triadic colors be the dominant color of your tie, and have the color of your shirt as a background color in your tie. But never wear a shirt, suit and tie that are, all three, patterned, as your outfit will look far too busy.
Going for stripes? Stick with stripes across the board. A little-thought through process, matching the size of your tie to the style of your suit is another important step. Thankfully, after all the loopholes and exceptions in the colour department, this is rather cut-and-dry. If your suit is slim-fit and tightly-tailored, go for a skinnier tie. Your suit will determine the material from which your tie is made.
Those grey and navy coats are always great except the undertaker part. When you are wearing a light coloured suit, it would be best to go for a dark tie or even a muted pastel colour which would go for the complexion. Do not go for the bright coloured ties with the light suits at all. When you are wearing those patterned coats and shirt, you would want your tie to go with the shirt colours while making the core colour prominent in it.
If you are unable to balance the clashes of different powers in your attire, you are not supposed to go for them. The classic combination includes a grey suit having a blue tie on it, that pale blue shirt having a maroon tie with it.
The body size should be kept in mind while considering the width and length of the tie. If you are broad, the wide and long ties would look great on you. If you having a slender figure, the skinny ties would look perfect on you. But if you plan to keep your tie shorter, do not go for the wider tie if you are not wide, and the tie should be reaching the belt hardly, not more than that in the length.
You should check our other blogs related to tie to have a more certain idea that which tie would look the best on your on which events. Posted on November 5, The Rules of Matching Ties to Suits This point should never be ignored that the tie is supposed to be the one which needs to be matched with the clothes, not the clothes which need to be matched with the ties.
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