Brown hat with a charcol grey or black suit

[jaw1993]

Ive seen a really nice brown fedora and Im thinking of buying it. However Im not too sure wheather it would look ok with either a charcol gery or black pinstripe suit. I think it might look ok, but Im curious to hear about other peoples views on this.

Thanks in advance

 

[Jabos]

I think I've seen on FL brown with a light grey plaid suit somewhere. For me I don't mix the two, but that is out of cowardice.

 

[kaosharper1]

Depends on the brown and the band. If its an orangy brown, I don't think it'll work, but if its more of a chocolate brown it could. Also if the band is black then it would work.

 

[jaw1993]

yes its more a chocolate colour, so Im thinking it would look good with my beige chinos as a summer alternative as well

 

[ScionPI2005]

I agree that a darker "chocolate" brown would probably be more flexible. It's probably a matter of preference as well. I've never really mixed blues and browns.

 

[GWD]

I've seen many vintage photos of Gray and Brown together.

Here is a photo with Paddy and me last year on the Queen Mary (photo by SlimPortly).

Brown Suit with Gray Whippet.

Page taken out of "Clothes and the Man"

 

[carldelo]

Charcoal gray and chocolate brown I would do in a NY minute, picture gray flannels and a nice rich brown leather belt or briefcase. Probably not black though, especially pinstripe, not sure why. A black ribbon on the hat might change that. Scion, you've got to try brown and blue together, especially with a fair complexion. I have a dark chocolate brown suit and robin's-egg-blue shirt w/brown pinstripe that are perfect together. Put on a brown hat and an oxblood tie, and you're good to go....

 

[Bill Greene]

Charcoal gray and chocolate brown I would do in a NY minute, picture gray flannels and a nice rich brown leather belt or briefcase. ....

Same here.

 

[Tomasso]

However Im not too sure whether it would look ok with either a charcoal gray or black pinstripe suit.

I sometimes wear a brown lid with a charcoal gray suit but only when brown accessories (shoes, belt, watch band, outerwear, etc..) are added to the ensemble. Otherwise, I would wear a gray or black hat, same as I would with a black pinstripe suit.

 

[Lexybeast]

I personally think 90% of making various colour combos work is confidence. Or, in my case (being colour blind), ignorance.

 

[danofarlington]

I've seen many vintage photos of Gray and Brown together.

Here is a photo with Paddy and me last year on the Queen Mary (photo by SlimPortly).]

Maybe so, but times are different now. Actually the hat-suit combos in the photo work well; that color brown probably could go with lots of suits except black. But I wouldn't be as free today as in the old movies and pictures. I say that having tried and rejected some combos in the mirror. Yes, for example you have Jimmy Stewart in a chocolote brown fedora in his 50s movies with any kind of suit, and that looks good. But when I tried it myself, dark brown hat and blue suit didn't work. Depends on the combo, but I would let the mirror be the judge, and I don't think one can be as free to mix and match colors now as in the 40s and 50s when every man wore a hat every time they he out the door.

 

[danofarlington]

I've seen many vintage photos of Gray and Brown together.

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Actually, now I'm interested in that tan color hat for purposes of matching with a blue blazer or suit. What do you call the brown color?

 

[elvisroe]

Go for it!

I saw an old movie the other night set in WW2 Europe and one of the charactors wore a black suit with a chocolate fedora.

I thought it looked great and not at all incongruous.

As someone who wears a lot of black and owns only black, grey and tan hats I'm now leaning toward something in a deep brown for my next purchase.

 

[Hereward]

I have seen dozens of Freemasons in London with their dark to black suits and shoes and they all wore a grown hat, which seems to be by far the most common colour amongst such people here.

 

[jaw1993]

I've just seen this photo in another thread,

Im going to the shop in Bath tommorow so I'll wear my charcol grey suit tommorow. And Ill see how it looks and if I buy it Ill post pictures tommorow