Peanut butter with pickles, strawberries with sour cream, baking a chicken with apples,
mixing an avocado with honey.
Now, those may not sound very appetizing unless you've actually tried them and you realize
those are delicious combinations.
In today's video, gents, we're going to talk about surprisingly stylish clothing combinations.
Surprisingly clothing combination number one, gentlemen.
Don't be afraid to mix and match patterns, have fun with this.
In fact, you can bring in four or more patterns very easily and a lot of guys resist this
because they're afraid it's going to over it's going to come off as just too much as
flamboyant as looking clownish.
Here is the key with matching patterns and looking stylish is make sure that you never
repeat the same pattern to keep them muted especially when you start to bring in a lot.
So, let's start off with the suit.
Oftentimes we're going to keep this solid.
Most of you guys maybe own a few solid suits.
If you own more, then you can start to bring in other patterns.
But, the key when you bring in all these patterns together, make sure that they're not the same
size.
So, if you're going to bring in multiple stripes make sure that the basically the space between
the stripes on your shirt on your suit are not the same.
But, let's say you go with a solid suit, then you could bring in a striped shirt.
Right here I've got solid colored shirt, but I could have easily brought in a stripe.
Then, wear a necktie, a necktie being able to bring all of a sudden a wide range such
as dots, such as small repeating patterns.
You can also bring in a bit of texture.
Then, your pocket square, all of a sudden paisleys.
If you're aware this is a sports jacket, you could actually bring in maybe a glen check
on your trouser or have a very muted glen check on the jacket and keep the trousers
solid.
So, right there you could see bringing in four to five patterns and those combinations
look especially if you keep the colors a bit muted nothing really standing out, the whole
combination just really can work for you.
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Another surprising combination I love is when you actually mix a rougher textured fabric
with a smoother textured fabric.
So, right here we've got regular cotton shirt, very tight weave.
It's made from an Egyptian cotton and has a very nice a little bit of a, you know, not
sheen or anything, but definitely has a nice smooth look.
Then, over here on the jacket we got texture with it.
The pocket square, this one is made from linen, again, very smooth.
So, using texture mixing rough with smooth is a great combination.
This tie would look great simply because, hey, it's going to contrast a bit with the
shirt.
It's also the color is going to help it stand out.
But, I could just as easily wear a very nice silk and, again, that nice sheen on it, a
very dressy look and it would kind of take this up, this is going to be a pretty casual
look, but you guys can see how you can mix and have fun with those combinations.
Surprising clothing combination number three.
Incorporate the odd vest.
So, the odd vest is where you've actually got it separate from a three-piece suit.
This is a vest that stands on its own.
Oftentimes the back of this vest is going to be made, so it can be seen off.
If you look at one that was comes with a suit it's oftentimes going to have a silk back
odd vest or oftentimes going to have more of a structured back.
They're going to look a little bit more finished back there, but you can still go with something
that's got a silk background.
The idea though is to wear it with a jacket or to wear it with a pair of trousers in of
itself, so that the color stands apart.
So, right here if I wore a red, if I wore a blue that would look really good.
The red definitely would stand out would grab attention.
Most of it depending on how the V is right here and me wearing this jacket, it actually
would be covered.
But, people at different angles would be able to see the layered look and I think it's a
great way to be able to add style.
Actually, the function of a vest is actually to add warmth, so right there you can level
up your style by bringing in the odd vest.
Surprising clothing combination number four.
Navy suits with dark brown shoes.
A lot of guys they always go with the black shoes.
Why not change it up?
Go with the dark brown.
And, if it's a lighter blue suit if it's a true blue suit, maybe look at oxblood.
Surprising combination number five and while we're talking about shoes with suits, why
not a pair of white clean sneakers with a casual suit?
What's a casual suit?
A casual suit is often made from a pattern that's going to be a little bit more eye-catching
not necessarily the darkest color or a solid color, it's going to bring in a pattern.
You could also have texture with it.
But, try matching that with a white pair of sneakers.
Now, you have to have confidence, you need to make sure it's appropriate.
But, for a younger man I think you can pull it off especially if you're going to be on
your feet all day.
But, notice I said clean.
The thing with those white shoes, you got to keep them clean.
So, you're going to be walking to the city and it's a muddy day, guys, don't even try.
Surprising clothing combination number six.
Wear dark-colored shirts with lighter colored jackets.
I pull this off a lot of my videos because I love darker colored shirts.
So they're a big part of my wardrobe and a lot of the jackets I gravitate towards are
going to be lighter, a little bit have a little bit of color to them.
But, I can wear the shirt with a white jacket with a gold jacket which I've done with a
lighter brown, then actually this go with maybe a tan.
I could also wear this with a light blue a light green a wide variety of colors I could
pull off with this darker colored shirt.
Surprising clothing combination number seven closely tied to the last one we talked about
is actually pulling in turtle neck sweaters or wide variety of darker colored sweaters
and wearing them with those lighter colored jackets.
Again, we're looking to get mileage out of everything.
You know guys, you know, I love the interchangeable wardrobe, but I think maybe a burgundy colored
sweater with a brown light brown colored jacket is a great combination especially if you've
got a medium to high contrast and that's basically where you've got lighter colored skin with
darker colored hair or you've got medium colored skin with medium colored hair or dark colored
hair.
So, for those kind of guys, they can definitely pull off that look.
My next surprising clothing combination, gentlemen take the classic navy jacket, the one maybe
with the gold buttons with a nautical feel to it, mix it with red chinos, great combination.
Now, make sure that they aren't cargo pants, they don't have the cargo on them.
That's a little bit too fashion forward.
And I do recommend this combination for the younger men, but I think it's but a lot of
guys even into their 30's and 40's can still pull off.
Now, these last two combinations have to do with denim.
So, first off, you can wear jeans with a denim top, so denim and denim.
The key here is you don't want them to match exactly.
You want to go with something that's kind of big contrast maybe a darker wash in your
jeans and a lighter wash in on the jacket.
Now, let's get back to that denim jacket for our last surprising clothing combinations.
So, I think the denim jacket is a classic piece in any man's wardrobe.
Get the fit right, but when you get the fit right and it's close to the body, it maybe,
you know, too cold outside to actually just wear this jacket in of itself, but you can
layer with it.
So, if it's close enough of a fit and if your sports jacket is a little bit looser, you
can actually wear that denim jacket under a sports jacket.
Now, that's going to be a little bit more of fashion forward look, probably more a look
that more guys can pull off is when they wear the denim jacket and they wear another jacket
over that heavier coat like maybe a parka, maybe a, you know, a type of trench coat maybe
an overcoat maybe a pea coat.
I've seen that, it looks really good.
You can even wear a fatigue jacket as well.
But, what I like to see is a little bit more of contrast between maybe the pea coat, the
darker color and the lighter colored denim just a great overall combination.
Guys, hopefully you learn something new in this video.
I and I would love to hear from you guys down in the comments what are some surprising clothing
combinations that you highly recommend?
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Gentlemen, that's it.
Take care.
I'll see you in the next video.