How to Pair Brown & Gray - Color Combinations for Tans & Greys in Menswear

About this video

The Gazette team provides comprehensive guidance on pairing brown and gray together in menswear, two foundational wardrobe colors that are traditionally less commonly combined. They present six practical tips for creating harmonious brown and gray outfits, including maintaining sufficient contrast, matching seasonality and formality, incorporating accent colors, and utilizing optical illusions created by patterns. The team demonstrates these principles through detailed outfit examples across different seasons and formality levels.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team emphasizes that adequate contrast between brown and gray is essential to avoid a muddy appearance, achieved through varying shades, patterns, or textures
• The Gazette team recommends matching seasonality and formality when pairing brown and gray—for example, combining flannels with overcoats rather than summer-weight fabrics
• The Gazette team suggests adding accent colors like petrol blue, burgundy, red, or off-white to elevate brown and gray combinations and create visual interest
• The Gazette team recommends substituting dark brown shoes for black shoes with gray suits to create softer, more cohesive fall and winter ensembles

Episode details: published October 18, 2019 · 94K views · 14:45 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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