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Brown shoes with black suit
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.
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(Sun 22:11 28/Jun/09)
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. |
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(Sun 22:14 28/Jun/09)
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! |
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(Sun 22:16 28/Jun/09) I'd wear the beige linen and tell her it's your choice......but black suit and brown shoes........er no.... | |
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(Sun 23:13 28/Jun/09) Generally its a no. | |
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(Sun 23:15 28/Jun/09) it's a no from me too. | |
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(Sun 23:28 28/Jun/09)
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Then how is it that Italians allegedly do not own any black shoes?
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(Sun 23:30 28/Jun/09)
Meadow... don't do it! Its a similar thing to 'matching collar and cuffs'... |
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(Sun 23:33 28/Jun/09) lol i think there must be at least one man in the whole of italy with at least 1 pair of black shoes | |
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(Sun 23:35 28/Jun/09)
though this isn't that man lol http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/04/16/pope _bush_narrowweb__300x433,0.jpg |
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(Sun 23:36 28/Jun/09) Personally I would criticise her choice. A black dress to a summer wedding? | |
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(Sun 23:38 28/Jun/09) 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. | |
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(Sun 23:42 28/Jun/09) i shoul`ve said brown shoes look o.k with black trousers and a shirt but not if your wearing solid colour | |
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(Sun 23:46 28/Jun/09)
looks like i`m chatting to myself,lol -------------------------------------------- meadowgrove then how is it that Italians allegedly do not own any black shoes? ----------------------------------------- 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? |
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(Mon 00:55 29/Jun/09)
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 |
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(Mon 00:57 29/Jun/09) 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! | |
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(Mon 00:59 29/Jun/09)
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. |
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(Mon 01:03 29/Jun/09) Go naked... with a flower in your button hole... | |
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(Mon 01:05 29/Jun/09) wot................his belly button hole? | |
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(Mon 01:08 29/Jun/09)
Step away from those shoes, Meadowgrover ..... [;o) |
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(Mon 01:09 29/Jun/09) no way at a must if money is low dye them |
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