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Brian Sacawa is the Founder of He Spoke Style and one of the original men’s style influencers.
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If you’re going to make your first suit a navy suit – which you should, by the way – your second suit should be a charcoal grey suit. It’s got all the versatility of a classic navy suit, which means even more wardrobe and styling options. Here, I’m showing you how to style it as a timeless piece for the office.
Like a navy, charcoal grey is very easy to pair with a variety of different colors, making potential shirt and tie combinations almost limitless. White can be on the formal side, so choose blue for more of an everyday look. You can never go wrong with a striped tie, but again, those stripes can come off as more formal and severe. I like a classic madder print as a show of sartorialism.
| WEARING | Knot Standard suit, Michael Andrews Bespoke shirt, Seaward & Stearn x He Spoke Style tie, Cubitts glasses, Rolex watch, Shoes c/o Allen Edmonds | PHOTOGRAPHY | by Rob McIver Photo
Other than lapel style, the type of pockets you choose for your jacket has one of the biggest effects on how formal or “less formal” your suit comes off. While I’ve been in the habit of getting many of my made to measure suits with patch pockets recently, I chose jetted pockets for this one and it’s a direction I’m planning on going for my next few suits as well.
Why? For starters, I like how clean the jacket looks with jetted pockets. Second, if I do want to wear the suit more formally, I can quite easily with this pocket style. Although it cuts down slightly on the versatility of the jacket – particularly wearing it as a separate – I’ve reached a point in my own wardrobe curation that I’m becoming a little more focused on each suit as a monolithic piece. Can I still break it out into separates? Sure, but it won’t be nearly as versatile as my navy hopsack suit with patch pockets.
By the way, we’ve quietly been working pretty hard behind the scenes to give the HSS YouTube channel the reboot that it deserves. We’ve already shot 12 videos and the first one is up today. You can expect at least two per week and the first is up today. Next week, you’ll see this suit five different ways so be sure to subscribe.
A classic suit deserves some classic shoes. You know I’m a big Allen Edmonds fan and here, I’ve got the Fifth Avenue resplendent with its brogued captoe.
Thanks, as always, for reading.
Stylishly Yours,
Brian Sacawa
He Spoke Style
Brian Sacawa
Brian Sacawa is the Founder of He Spoke Style and one of the original men’s style influencers. Since 2013, his goal has remained the same: to provide men the advice and inspiration they need to dress well, develop their personal style, and gain more confidence. Brian’s interest and passion for men’s style and luxury watches has led to his writing for The Robb Report, The Rake, and Sotheby’s and he has been quoted on menswear in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Today.com, Brides Magazine, and the Huffington Post. He lives in the woods north of Baltimore with his wife, Robin, kitties Nick and Nora, and German Shepherd/Collie mix Charlie.
