Top Five Shirt and Tie Combos: #3 Plaid Shirt, Striped Tie
Plaid Shirt, striped tie. It’s a classic recipe that can work incredibly well when your tie’s colors pull from the same colors as the shirt. It’s also a recipe for disaster when your tie’s colors don’t pull from the same colors as the shirt.
We’ve talked about this before, but to recap, here’s what you’ve got to do to make it pop:
Make one of the colors in the tie match with a color in the plaid — ideally one of the lighter colors. Provided there is another color in the tie (which there will be, since it’s a stripe), if it is not matching a color in the shirt, it ought to be dark. Otherwise, it’s adding too many colors. Also, the base color of the tie — i.e. the color that isn’t the stripe — needs to be dark. This dark color will calm the eyes and let you parse out the whole image before you.
It’s okay to match more than one color in the shirt to more than one color in the tie, but trust your internal barometer of matchy-matchiness. Too much is too much and it can steer toward the vain.
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Do you believe it would work with a polka dot tie (small dots)? I’ve tried striped shirt with polka dot tie and if you do it well it looks great..