Summer clothes remain a gaping weak spot in my wardrobe that I’ve finally summoned the motivation to remedy. Admittedly, I’m treading on unfamiliar territory.
My general plan is to bring Ambrosi some Irish linen from W. Bill on my visit to Naples, coming up in a couple of weeks. However, I’ve never thought through the concept of linen trousers before and find myself challenged in choosing the right colors. My goal is to pick something summer-appropriate, yet wearable on a daily basis, including to the office. Most often, they’ll be worn with a shirt only (no jacket, no ties)–and as many of you may know, all my shirts are blue.
If I didn’t have any practical concerns, I’d probably order five pairs of off-white linen and leave it at that. However, they’re a pain to keep clean and wearing off-white pants to work every day of the week would be rather conspicuous. As such, I’m inclined to pick one other color to go along with them.
The candidates are a cigar brown and medium cornflower blue, pictured above. The latter is more daring, for better or worse. I picked the lighter of the two cream/off-white colors because it will better complement the blue jackets from my pending summer suits.
Thoughts?
Why not tan? I know it’s cliche, but it seems like it’d go perfectly with the blue shirts.
What is the number of the cigar brown linen?
As for colour, blue on blue, even in different shades, is… nah.
Great to see you writing again! I own a pair of royal blue linen trousers that I wear frequently during the warmer months of the year.
The blue you chose will probably work just as well with anything but blue jackets whereas the cigar brown jacket will work with anything but brown coats in similar shades.
Salvatore had some very nice gray linen for pants that he was pushing. SF Matt loves his light gray pair. SA prefers the darker gray. I didn’t get any but wish I had. Although, they would be a pain to dry clean each wear or two. Maybe you can convince him to preshrink them for hand ro gentle machine wash.