Brown shoes with black suit

[Meadowgrover]

Can these go together (wife says no - I say yes)? If yes can you provide links to photos to (hopefully) convince her. We are going to a wedding in 3 weeks & she is wearing a black dress & doesn't want me in the beige(ish) linen suit that I would normally wear for a summer do so I was hoping to informalise (new word) my black suit a little. No - I can't afford a new suit, current economic bah-di-blah.

[dzug]

Well I've occasionally done so inadvertently.

No one apart from my wife has noticed - or if they have they've been too polite to say so.

So it can't be that big a gaffe, though I'm assured it is one.

[Electrochem]

Personally I would never brown shoes with a black suit, but that's the way I was brought up.

It's the same reason I never do the bottom button up on a waistcoat.

That said. times have changed and almost anything goes today. I still keep my jacket on until the MC says "gentlemen may now remove their jackets" and I loathe seeing rolled up sleeves and a top button undone with the tie half way down the shirt!

[craft1948]

I'd wear the beige linen and tell her it's your choice......but black suit and brown shoes........er no....

[Coobeastie]

Generally its a no.

[dot.haukes]

it's a no from me too.

[Meadowgrover]

Then how is it that Italians allegedly do not own any black shoes?

[sn�gs]

Meadow... don't do it!

Its a similar thing to 'matching collar and cuffs'...

[dot.haukes]

lol i think there must be at least one man in the whole of italy with at least 1 pair of black shoes

[dot.haukes]

though this isn't that man lol
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/04/16/pope _bush_narrowweb__300x433,0.jpg

[Jan1957]

Personally I would criticise her choice. A black dress to a summer wedding?

[khoey]

the answer is no the shoes will stand out like a sore thumb.if you are economising on the suit,surely you can buy an inexpensive pair of black shoes, the sales are on at the moment so you can probably pick up a nice dear pair for half price.

[khoey]

i shoul`ve said brown shoes look o.k with black trousers and a shirt but not if your wearing solid colour

[khoey]

looks like i`m chatting to myself,lol
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meadowgrove
then how is it that Italians allegedly do not own any black shoes?
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because most of the time they wear linen suits and it depends on the suit, loafers look lovely with a lightweight suit,

why black its summer?

[Mr Veritas]

Brown SHoes with a Black Suit?
NO<.A fashion FAux~Pas of the first measure.
However,I am 86,so possibly live in another century fashionwise!
I mean I have never worn suede shoes,my parents told me only gays (well they said poofs) wore them! LOL

[Mr Veritas]

Meadowgrove I don't know where you got the Italian idea from,but I was in Rome in May (we have an Italian Son in Law) and the shops had shoes of ALL sorts of colours,and YES lots were black!

[wakeover]

Do what you want young man. How many times have you seena pic of a celebrity wearing a suit and sporting trainers..................argh..............but they get away with it. Just act like a celeb and yopu've cracked it.

[sn�gs]

Go naked... with a flower in your button hole...

[craft1948]

wot................his belly button hole?

[mrs.chappie]

Step away from those shoes, Meadowgrover .....

[;o)

[pinktwink]

no way at a must if money is low dye them