matching a waistcoat

[vespasian]

I fancy wearing a few waistcoats (well one at a time) and there are plenty to choose from but how do you match one to a suit if you want to wear another colour (ie buy a 2pc suit then get a seperate waistcoat from elsewhere).

 

[Matt Deckard]

I do this all the time... I don't have the waistcoat for many suits because nowadays three piece suits aren't that easy to find off the rack.

Grey suit -- and blue vest
Blue suit -- grey vest
Brown suit -- red, yellow, blue, black vest.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Matt,
Do have any photos of that look you could post?
I just ran across a vintage waistcoat in gray with beautiful pearl buttons for $35, but I wasn't sure if it was a good look for me.
Thanks,
-HJ

 

[GateXC]

You can also do a darker suit (grey, black, blue) with a taupe, cream or lighter color waistcoat, ala Cagney as George M. Cohan in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (Best picture I could find, but if you watch the film you get a much better sense of it). Ends up looking pretty damn good if you ask me.

 

[Matt Deckard]

I'll see if I have a better photo.

The hat is Runnquist's

 

[Marty M.]

Waist not a waistcoat.

I fancy wearing a few waistcoats (well one at a time) and there are plenty to choose from but how do you match one to a suit if you want to wear another colour (ie buy a 2pc suit then get a seperate waistcoat from elsewhere).

Vespasian,
Besides your solid options, remember your patterns. Adding a pattern vest to a solid or a muted pattern suit is a great and easy option (example: a yellow and navy check waistcoat under a navy striped suit). Remember, it was the great people of the UK that made mixing pattern on pattern a great style.

Marty