Mismatched accessories: The Devil’s Playground

Wearing: white cotton shirt with navy check – Euromerican Tailors | maroon silk knit tie – Casa Pavone | black leather belt – Raphael Steffens | dark resin coated jeans – ASOS | whiskey brown leather loafers – ASOS |
When I was younger I read an article in a newspaper on being well dressed, and the author stressed that mismatched accessories were the high of impropriety. It’s one of those old-fashioned, throw away bits of advice that seems fairly innocuous the first time you here it, but which actually takes seed in your mind and grows and grows into a fully-fledged wardrobe hang-up before you realise it.
I’m now incapable of wearing mismatched accessories (more…)