Pattern Mixing With Your Shirt and Tie

Here are a few more hints on how to successfully wear a yellow tie!

• Since it is a patterned tie, make sure to choose carefully when mixing patterns. While you don't have to stick to only solid colors shirts, make sure that:

• The shirt pattern is a smaller scale than the tie, or vice versa. (for this tie, we would suggest a shirt with a small-scale pattern)

• Since the tie is a bold pattern and color, keep the shirt pattern and color subtle and light.

• A grey or navy suit will work well with the yellow contrast.

• Try a shirt with light copper or khaki tones to bring out the copper accents on the tie.

See the design board below for suggestions:

Yellow Tie #2 by eparise

A Study in Contrast

In order to make a yellow tie pop, one can coordinate it with contrasting colors. People most often wear yellow with blue, but on the color wheel, yellow's complimentary color is actually violet.

You can tone down a purple/yellow combo with a black suit. If even that is too bright, try a grey shirt. Grey offers a modern option to the standard blue or white. This look is definitely still work appropriate without being too boring!

Men with Yellow Tie by makikoharris on Polyvore.com

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New Ways to Wear a Yellow Tie?

Hello all! Here is the beginning of our design board post series this week.

Do you sometimes get tired of the tried-and-true combinations, like yellow and blue, white and anything, red and blue? The challenge is to come up with a modern, polished way to wear this patterned yellow tie that doesn't rely on a plain blue or white shirt. Any ideas? We'd love to hear them! Keep posted for tomorrow's design board featuring this tie.

Here is a close-up of the pattern if you want to do some pattern-mixing...post your ideas or for those who are more daring, make a design board yourself and email to makiko@9tailors.com. It might appear on the blog!