![]() ![]() Suits are typically easier to wear in navy or gray, rather than black, and black dress shirts are questionable at best. To be sure, some of those rules are sensible. And in binning those shoes, many have learned to avoid black entirely. And black leathers don’t acquire the patina that makes a pair of well-polished, well-worn brown leather shoes so handsome. In fact, giving up square-toed black shoes in favor of more anatomically correct brown ones became something of a rite of passage for well-dressed men. Black sport coats look like orphaned suit jackets. Black suits are for morticians and the help. During the late-aughts, menswear writers confidently declared that nobody should ever wear the color. ![]() For all the guides on how to dress for your complexion, you only have to look at how black has been redeemed in the last ten years to see how color in fashion is often more about social meaning than simple color theory. ![]()
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