[0:00:00] Gentlemen, Antonio here.
All right.
Today, we’re going to talk about the color gray and how it fits in your interchangeable
wardrobe.
It’s my belief that the color gray is one of the most underutilized colors out there
when men are looking to build a classic wardrobe that’s actually going to work for them.
In today’s video, I’m going to talk primarily about two pieces that you should consider
in your wardrobe.
I’m going to talk about where to get them, I’m also going to talk about a few other
ways to bring gray into your wardrobe with shirts with shoes and possibly with a few
other items.
I want to hear from you down in the comments, let me know: What do you have in your wardrobe?
How do you use the color gray?
What do you think of the color gray?
And real quick, take a second go down there, that way I can go in there and see what your
opinion was before and then maybe you can go in there afterwards and let me know if
I change any of your thoughts about this color?
Again, it’s not really used much in a modern man’s wardrobe.
So, the first thing I want to talk about is the gray flannel trousers.
This is in my opinion one of the most underutilized, but useful piece in a man’s wardrobe and
I’m about to show you why.
So, this pair right here, I worked with a company called Trunkist and we’ve designed
this very – really a unique pair, they don’t have any belt loops on, they have side tabs.
I took this from – it was Dr. No when 007 wore something like this.
In addition, there’s a great picture of Warren Beatty, I think taken in 1975.
I love the idea of something the length of the leg line using a very, I mean let’s
look at it.
They’re not – the material isn’t super exciting.
These aren’t going to grab people’s attention and that’s the key with trousers is they
should allow the eyes to go up and down, look at your face, they’ll look at your feet
and they go back right up to your face where you want to be able to have eye contact and
talk with them.
But, the right pair of trousers can allow the eyes to go up and down and make you look
taller they can make you look leaner.
In this case, that’s what I designed this for, but the right pair of gray flannels can
match almost everything in your wardrobe.
So, I’ve got eleven shirts here, ten of which I want you to focus on because they’re
all going to be whites and blues.
Pretty simple, right?
Guess what?
This pair of trousers here will work with all of them here except for the gray one at
the back and I’ll talk about that here in a second.
Pretty much all fourteen of these sports jacket will work with this pair of gray flannel trousers.
So, I go through the dark greens, it’s going to work perfectly fine.
Look at that.
The blues, I think gray flannel with a dark-colored blue.
This is a classic, it’s next to a suit in level of formality.
In fact, you can wear this with navy and this would be dressier than a light-colored suit
or a suit with a bold pattern.
Again, I’ve got a wide variety of blues.
It’s going to work with all of them and that is the beauty.
Once you invest in a quality piece of gray flannel or I mean and there are many other
manufacturers, I’m not the only one that makes them.
Brooks Brothers has them, they’re relatively expensive starting at about $250, you can
find some custom clothiers that will do them over in Asia for about, I think about $150.
Be careful, I talked about how to choose a custom clothier over in that part of the world.
Sometimes the materials are really bad, but to get a great material with a great custom
clothier, let’s say you go to Savile Row or New York City and you’re – you find
someone really good, expect to spend upwards up to $200 to $300 and in some cases $400,
yeah, for custom trousers.
So, that’s one of the reasons that we were making these is we wanted to kind of help
fill that void.
Again, because they’re gray because they are a non-color, you don’t have to worry
about blues, you got to be careful of what they’re going to go with.
You can’t really try to match blues with other blues, a lot of cool tone items out
there are not going to necessarily work with blues.
Gray, you don’t have that issue, it’s a non-color.
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The gray jacket.
The second item which I think would work a great sports jacket and it can come in a white
and get solid grays, you can get ones that have complex patterns.
This one right here, you’ll notice you go in there it’s got a little bit of blue in
there, it’s got the white, it’s got the black, you know, so with tweed jacket like
this, this is going to have texture to it.
It’s going to have a nice feel to it where you could go with solid, again, you can go
with houndstooth, you can go with something that has a more complex pattern in it.
But, I personally like something like this I feel is going to match a wide range.
Now, it’s going to look best I think with the blues.
The whites, they could – they could pale you up.
If you’ve got really light skin or you’re older, you’re above the age of 50, you want
to be careful of, you know, bringing in a white with this as it could pull some of the
– some of the – literally almost pulls – it seems like it pulls the life out of
some of your skin.
So, focus in with a blue, maybe also look at some warmer tone shirts if you want to
get outside of this range.
[0:05:04] These – these pants this basically they
– a canvas blue, that’s going to work well.
But I really like it when you can start to bring in some contrast.
So, you’ve got this right here this – you see that?
Just throw it down there.
That would work – almost be a little bit, I don’t know if I would go with this, maybe
in the summer you could pull this off.
But, this right here, that’s going to be a fine during the fall, winter, spring, even
the summer.
I could talk about this stuff quite a bit long, guys.
I’ll go into more details in the article right here that will support this.
But, basically you guys maybe wondering, okay, if gray flannels if they were so great why
did they fall out of favor?
Really it was denim, less expensive.
It was, you know, in many people’s minds a bit more durable, easy to take care of,
so gray flannels fell out.
Also, a lot of flannel was used during the war, it was something that was watched very
carefully.
We didn’t use as much denim in the war, so they weren’t the same types of rationing
on it.
Things like that conspired against it.
We also saw same thing with sports jackets.
A lot of men just aren’t wearing sports jackets nowadays.
Now, I talked about few other things here.
Gray shirts.
Now, gray shirts in general if they’re solid, I don’t really like them.
I do like it though when you bring that cool little pattern like this.
Again, Ledbury is the manufacturer of this one.
I have it, I like it, I’ve worn it a few times.
Be careful about wearing too much gray.
Guys, I don’t recommend matching a gray jacket with gray trousers.
To me it’s choose one and that’s why I went in that order.
I did mention start with the trousers, get a few pairs and you can have variation.
I got this pair, very similar to – these were actually use as the designs off the one
that I’m working with Trunkist on, but, again, I love the side tabs.
For me it’s really unique and it sets me apart.
I make sure that they fit me properly the side tabs, let me adjust, I don’t need a
belt like this leg line.
I also like the guy – and I have these other ones I made with Trunkist.
I’ve got a hidden pocket, so I can hide my credit cards or hide anything.
I also don’t have back pockets on these trousers.
It was my design my choice to go for more streamline silhouette.
Gray is a color that you – it allows you to do and focus in on other things.
So, these pair of shoes, the color isn’t what we focus in on.
What we focus in on is the texture.
We focus in on the fact that they’re using suede.
This is from Paul Evans by the way, I’ve talked about him in another video in which
I talked about loafers.
Boom!
Right over here.
But, guys, again, gray the color isn’t a color and it’s not going to grab attention.
What I love about gray it allows you to focus on in other things, it doesn’t hug the limelight,
sits in the background, and allows you to build a more complete interchangeable wardrobe.
Guys, take care.
Go check out the support article and, let me know what the comments, have I change your
thoughts about the color gray.
Take care.
See you in the next video.
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