Matching nonblue ties to lavender shirts

[josepidal]

What ties do you match to lavender and light purple shirts? Blue looks very good, but becomes boring very fast. I understand lavender is not the easiest to match unless you want to just put on a dark purple tie (no), so was hoping for ideas or photos.

 

[oscarthewild]

grey glen plaid

 

[FIHTies]

Originally Posted by josepidal

What ties do you match to lavender and light purple shirts? Blue looks very good, but becomes boring very fast. I understand lavender is not the easiest to match unless you want to just put on a dark purple tie (no), so was hoping for ideas or photos.



I dont really see the Blue conection but since you do lets leave it at that.

Personally prefer Greys and that family, (Grey, Charcoals, Blacks etc.)

 

[Mr_Sweden]

I would suggest green ties.

/Mr S

 

[EL72]

This is one of the only times a charcoal grey tie looks nice. Black grenadine is always an option too. Please don't wear a dark purple tie with a lavender shirt.

 

[josepidal]

Jonathan, that's very interesting as lavender shirts never came up in a previous thread regarding grey and silver ties; all I got was that the latter ties were very difficult to pair.

I'll try grey and green. Photos would be appreciated.

I mentioned blue because I happen to have a Carlo Franco dark navy pin dot where the little twist is that the pin dots are lavender. They go great with a lavender shirt and it still looks very formal.

 

[zarathustra]

I wear lavender shirts quite frequently. I think it is hard to say exactly what to wear without haviing an idea as to the colour of the suit or sportjacket.

What about a plum tie, rather than a grape purple? RLPL has a really nice one this season that I think would go well.

 

[designprofessor]

go opposite, try something in the tan /yellow or orange end of the spectrum.

 

[edmorel]

Originally Posted by josepidal

Blue looks very good, but becomes boring very fast.


If you were in front of me, I'd punch you.

 

[josepidal]

That's a line (regarding blue) I've seen rather often on this forum, so you might wear out your fist.

 

[LabelKing]

I'd never wear blue with lavender.

Perhaps a green tie.

 

[scruff]

Originally Posted by FIHTies

I dont really see the Blue conection but since you do lets leave it at that.

I think Blue works.

Otherwise, I throw on some sort of charcoal, grey or brown wool tie in the winter, and a dark orange tie with my purp shirts in the summer.

Here's a very old camphone pic -

You should hit Pink's website, which has a nifty shirt+tie mix n match program.

 

[Holdfast]

I'll echo greens, greys/black and yellow/gold.

I don't see what's wrong with using a plum/mauve/purple with lavender either. esp. with a nice pattern - my one caveat is you need to stop it looking too matchy. There has to be enough contrast between shirt and tie.

 

[josepidal]

Heh, I've seen a lot of people wearing very matchy lavender shirts and purple ties; once I saw a suit with lavender lining to complete the look.

By the way, I was hoping to discuss lavender or light purple, which I think goes well with dark navy. As shown, however, purple and a lighter shade of blue go well too.

 

[zarathustra]

I am always worried of looking like this when wearing green and purple: