Style

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New members may come across mention of the Great Renunciation. This is a reference regarding the use of color (or lack there of) in mens wear. A trend towards color-less clothing began a couple centuries ago. This eventually led to the dreary drabness we see in mens wear today.

Members have commented that women have embarked on their own Great Renunciation.

For mens wear we may now be in a long trend that will reverse the Great Renunciation. We may eventually see more use of colors bright and bold, as well as the subtle use of pastels.

I see color as being as significant as any (non-skirt) style.

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Further comments regarding color:

Color may tend to gain traction more easily, and sooner, compared to other changes, such as MIS. Without any style changes, color can be applied to otherwise ordinary items from the male side of the aisle.

Pastels may work well with shirts, particularly dress dress shirts, because of the tendency to layer other items over them. Jackets...ties...necklaces.... The soft neutral of the shirt may serve well as the background for items with more vivid hues.

Of course, bright and bold colors can look good on shirts too.

Adding more color would work well with socks.

If used as a statement piece, bright and bold turns a skirt into a peacock tail.

Going in the opposite direction, for the sake of style, we should consider shoes and hats.* Consider the tendency towards earth tones for leather shoes. This can have the effect of grounding an outfit. Helping to keep the rig from going over the top. While hats can look good with vivid color, they can also look good with earth tones. I believe that earth tone hats can reinforce the grounding effect-from the other end of the body-while paradoxically looking dashing.

* Individuals with a special eye for clothing may make more colorful items work for their rigs, while other, less gifted people may not.

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Though this video deals with traditional trouser suits, it is worth considering socks for per tonal expression in general.

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That was supposed to be "personal expression."

Patterns in mens socks.

If the socks I have linked to seem a bit tame, you might explore socks from the other side of the aisle

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If you were to base skirt colors based on the colors of mens trousers.

[Mouse]

If you were to base skirt colors based on the colors of mens trousers.

I have a few of the seven colours in my working skirts. I am missing brown, olive and white, however, it made me smile when he had a picture of a man in white trousers standing next to a proper Land Rover. IMHO, while I love my Defender, it and white skirt/trousers do not make a good combination.

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Mouse, as I recall a member put those 7 colors into the category of "mud colors."

So it seems that for work you have skirts with mud colors.

[Mouse]

Mouse, as I recall a member put those 7 colors into the category of "mud colors."
So it seems that for work you have skirts with mud colors.

On some building site that would be totally appropriate.

[Faldaguy]

If you were to base skirt colors based on the colors of mens trousers.

I have a few of the seven colours in my working skirts. I am missing brown, olive and white, however, it made me smile when he had a picture of a man in white trousers standing next to a proper Land Rover. IMHO, while I love my Defender, it and white skirt/trousers do not make a good combination.

I can't say white worked with my Wrangler, nor current Land Cruiser -- maybe if we switched to all white lithium grease for them?

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How to convince men to take a chance with skirts? There is the idea of lowering the barriers to entry by using the same mud colors as mens trousers.

That might look like this.