What to Wear With a Brown Sport Jacket

What can brown do for y'all?

A chocolate-brown sport coat should be one of your commencement purchases. In fact, I believe it is more versatile than a navy sport coat. It tin do nonetheless things navy can, but will pair amend with jeans. The mail title might be a touch misleading – I am not suggesting one brown sport coat. Rather, I'll study a number of them in my own wardrobe for maximum effect!

At that place are a number of ways we can go well-nigh categorizing brown sport coats for this exercise:

Brown Sport Glaze sub-categories:
- Nighttime brownish
- Warm brown
- Grey-ish brown
- Tan (aka light chocolate-brown)
- Patterns with chocolate-brown in them

And since I've listed them all here, I'm going to cover them all!

Shades of Brownish Sport Coats

Dark Brown

Here is an example of how I wore my darkest dark-brown sport glaze. It's a rich, chocolate base of operations, with a navy and burgundy bank check. I've paired information technology with a crisp white shirt and silvery-grey grenadine tie. Unseen are the light grey trousers. To me, brown and greyness is every bit equally versatile as a navy and gray based outfit. You get all the good contrast, and escape the more formal-leaning structure of a navy jacket.

The 2d outfit picks up the burgundy check in the jacket with the necktie. Cream trousers and a white shirt keep it light, and add together some dissimilarity. Instead of a white pocket square, I chose my Cream Waves from Vanda. Every bit y'all tin come across, it helps to continue the tone and colour of the trousers upwardly into the peak half, while keeping the overall warmth of the look. I think a white square would accept been to harsh.

Warm Brownish

I recently picked upward this beauty from Spier & Mackay – it'southward a squeamish warm, slightly rusty shade of brown tweed fabricated up in a Donegal style by Botolli. At starting time, I wasn't sure I loved how colourful the flecks and specks are. Brilliant dejection, oranges, greens and reds really pop all over. I tried it on a couple of times earlier deciding to bring it home. Side note: this may exist the bestest fitting off the rack sport coat yet! Anyways, I wanted to play off the warm tones, and paired this brownish sport coat with my light brownish VBC flannel trousers (they are available again this twelvemonth!) and a brick ruby tie from Vanda. A blueish houndstooth shirt and my St. George and the Dragon pocket square from Rampley & Co rest out the warmth with some libation blue shades. They likewise option out the blue flecks nicely.

And then, to summarize so far: Brownish sport coats are awesome with gray trousers and light chocolate-brown trousers. Skillful? Good.

Greyness-ish Brown

This summertime slub is a really cool fabric. I've featured information technology previously, when I wrote nigh the v3 Neapolitan cutting from Spier & Mackay. The grayness and coppery threads actually add some fantastic texture and depth to the colour. In the first pic, I've leveraged the grey tones with that same silvery-gray grenadine from Kent Wang (notice a pattern?) and my soft mint gingham shirt. I wore my Kingfisher pocket foursquare from Rampley & Co to residuum out the colour of the shirt, and hoping the orange would pickup the copper in the jacket.

In the second epitome, featuring the same brown sport coat, I went with my burgundy Sam Hober grenadine tie and the Taurus Orion pocket square from Kent Wang. The deep burgundy contrasts nicely with the dark-brown sport coat, and the warm yellows, reds and browns in the pocket square really tie everything together. Light grey trousers and my blackness cap toe Carminas offer a neutral base of operations.

My next gray-ish brown sport coat is this Donegal number. The colour is chosen Fawn by Abraham Moon & Sons, it'due south a brown base with flecks of charcoal, low-cal grayness, beige and yellow. It is a very neutral shade – neither warm or cool, and has a wonderful texture. In the first pic, I've worn information technology with a calorie-free wash denim shirt and a wood greenish wool tie. The pocket square is a Tom Ford slice I picked up from LuxeSwap. Because the top half was more often than not low dissimilarity, I continued the theme on the bottom half with navy trousers and my Velasca suede wingtips.

In the 2nd case, I've paired the jacket with some burgundy flannel trousers. Because the jacket is non overly saturated, I really like the mode the burgundy warms upwards the overall look while still providing a nice amount of contrast. The rest of the upper cake is my soft mint gingham and navy grenadine from Kent Wang. The pocket square is from Vanda, and is a dainty maroon/burgundy that has some silver, blue and yellow in it. Overall I liked this wait, but the pocket square seems a scrap contrived hither – like I needed to justify the burgundy trousers in some mode, if that makes sense.

Tan (light brown)

I've written about this tan herringbone jacket a few times. I had trouble finding pairings early on, but have come to learn that information technology is a actually versatile piece. I'm actually on the hunt for a Fall/Winter weight jacket that is tan. Actually, Spier & Mackay has a really nice one from this flavor that I'k eyeing. The lighter tone works well with trousers and jeans. Information technology seems lite compared to all my other jackets, but I've plant it has enough contrast with nearly of the trousers in my cupboard. Tan is a great brown sport coat to have in the rotation.

Brown Patterns

These examples all characteristic a bold pattern, with brown playing a strong supporting roll. I'm non going to go into detail most each of them, just I wanted to include them.

The Chocolate-brown Sport Coat

I might become so far as to say: brown makes a ameliorate sport glaze than navy. I generally stay away from declarative statements like that, but every bit I go more and more comfortable in my clothes, I get more comfortable in my positions nigh them. Now, I tin can't promise I won't change my heed in the futurity. Then, since this is an "inspriation" post, have I inspired you? How would yous wear a brown sport glaze? How many practice you already own? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for reading!

-Colin

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