Shades of Grey
We can all appreciate how a bright splash of color can work to showcase our sparkling personalities and personal style choices.
There is, however, something to be said for those who can also master the fashionable area that lies between black and white. This week on The Spot, learn how to embrace your inner charcoal child with a piece like the Camo Flag Cotton Sweater, available to you from Ralph Lauren boys. Featuring an artist's interpretation of the star spangled banner in a motley assortment of grey hues, on a complementary and equally grey background, this sweater is a great place to start your understated journey.
The winds keep biting with an ever growing force and fierceness but that doesn’t mean that you have to make compromises with your sense of style for even a second!
This winter, it’s a good idea to get a piece that can be layered and worn interchangeably regardless of the wind chill. Take, for example, the Twill Terry Cardigan from Ralph Lauren boys, a garment that provides you with endless cold weather outfit opportunities. Made of a thickly-woven twill and terry cloth blend and designed in a simple yet elegant white with grey trim, this cardigan is ever interchangeable and infinitely essential to have in your wardrobe.
Want a top that’ll go with any of your favorite pairs of pants?
Need a dress shirt and tie set that is adaptable, classy and the perfect blank canvas for your ideal ensemble? Then Mens Fitted Chambray Dress Shirt and Houndstooth Tie Set from the Nick Graham collection at Macy’s is the way forward for you! Complete with a lovely ash grey chambray shirt paired with a subtle yet sophisticated black houndstooth tie, this set is ready to go anywhere you want to take it. Don’t forget: grey is a great foundation, build your own color palette (and look) around it!
If the complete lack of color is a little daunting to the more hue-tastic among us…
find a piece that accentuates the grey while subtly incorporating an unobtrusive secondary shade like navy, evergreen, or burgundy. One way to try this trend on for size is with the Classic Hamlin Stripe Tie, available to you from Perry Ellis. Featuring thick diagonal lines in a subdued navy and dark grey, broken up by thinner eggshell white strokes, this necktie is the perfect balance of elegance and outfit adaptability.
Lean completely into the monochromatic scale with a garment that makes for an easy foundation…
from which to build any worthwhile ensemble. There is something undeniably timeless about the Classic Montrose Dot Tie, also available from Perry Ellis, and there is no arguing its well deserved spot in your repertoire. Designed with a white polka dot pattern on an ashy backdrop, this necktie says all the right things without giving away any of that carefully cultivated intrigue.