When are Brown Ties Okay?

[AlexE]

Yes (unless worn with a brown uniform, khaki shirt and riding boots )

 

[mensimageconsultant]

If you say so. However, it's probably still a bad idea for a German politician to wear a brown tie.

 

[AlexE]

Hmmm I am not sure that people associate brown ties with Nazis (and actually I believe that the SA wore black ties with brown shirts).

Politicians here wear the same crappy looking stuff like everywhere else primarily relying on blue and red or combinations thereof.

 

[mensimageconsultant]

It looks like at least in some variants of the brown-shirt uniform, the Nazi tie was brown. In others, it might have been black.

Vaguely related thought: brown ties seem much less likely to be patterned than most other colors.