What shades of blue trousers are best when wearing light-brown or "cognac" shoes? — Drew Iacovazzi, West Hartford, Conn. With lighter-brown shoes, any pants that fall in the broad deep-navy-to ...

Discover how to blend your navy suit with brown shoes seamlessly. While you may want to wear black dress shoes for formal occasions, you can also match your light blue suit with brown shoes for ...

Our fashion critic discusses the evolution of dress codes, including how rules — like one discouraging brown shoes with blue or black trousers — can come in and out of favor. By Vanessa ...

If I took my one phone call, I guess I could call the eminent tailor and author Alan Flusser, who says that Italian men have made brown shoes safe with blue suits. I was raised on the black-with ...

In Italy, for instance, it's not so much whether to wear brown shoes but rather which shade. There, men tend to pair a light blue or grey suit, for example, with a lighter brown shoe, while dark ...

His face always seems so pale for his complexion. Why do men wear black or dark blue suits with light brown shoes? Don’t they realize how ridiculous they look. Who started this trend?

Or his shoes, rather. He wore light brown shoes with a dark, navy blue suit. Is this what he meant when he said Canadians were getting a change? People on Twitter who watched the swearing-in ...