Comments on: LOVE/HATE: The Many-Colored Man Edition

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:04:38 +0000

I agree that color can be fantastic if done right. I found some great colored tuxedos that were super fun and classy at http://www.brightcoloredtuxedos.com

By: bernadette

bernadette — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:45:26 +0000

The guys in our party had chocolate brown pin striped tuxes for our fall wedding. Each guy wore a different color vest (wine, copper, truffle, and ivory) it ended up being unique but not something that will look dated in a few years (I hope).

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:39:15 +0000

I don’t mind giggles later, either! But I HATE the way the options are so stripped for men. My husband really wanted something, anything other than black but there was nothing but black, slightly blueish black and grey suits in the shops. When we’d ask a salesperson for something not black they’d give us pin stripes!!! Talk about pimp. We live in the 2nd or 3rd largest city in our frigg*n country and all I found was one horrible white rental tux and one decent but ridiculously expensive one in black brocade.

In the end I bought him a bright green and a dark purple shirt (had to go to the capital for those!) to choose from in stead of white and it gave him some colour. He does look great in the fitted black Tiger of Sweden <3 suit we got and he can use it again and again, but why wouldn't a groom wear a smashing, fun, brilliantly coloured number once in a lifetime, just like the bride? Who cares how dated it might look later, the picture was taken on a certain DATE which is probably written on the album cover.

By: Margo

Margo — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:20:27 +0000

Love – especially jewel colours, like bottle green and ruby. But then, the powder blue tux with ruffles sounds great to me, why not eh? Something to giggle over in years to come.

By: Melissa B.

Melissa B. — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:44:11 +0000

Diane, that photo totally made my day!

By: Twistie

Twistie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:09:04 +0000

Everyone who hasn’t gone to see the photo Diane linked of David Tennant needs to go see it right now. David shows us how it’s done. Great cut, excellent fit, flattering color.

I’ve always been saddened at the thought that men get so few choices of color for formalwear. Basically, they get black and a few brave souls get white. That’s it. Men have skintones, too, you know. Some of them look better in blue or purple or maroon or olive green than they do in black or white.

Mr. Twistie happens to rock black like nobody’s business and he loves wearing it, but I feel for the guys who don’t get the chance to wear colors they look great in because society has determined that wearing anything but black (or perhaps, in certain circumstances, a bit of white) means they aren’t really men.

David, I hope other men take a page out of your sartorial book!

The dude NtB submitted for our approval/abject horror, however, has shown us How To Do It All Wrong.

By: toronto photographer

toronto photographer — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:38:02 +0000

coooool! the only colour I dont like for men is white!

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:09:09 +0000

I actually have no problem with colour. I have no problem with velvet. I have no problem with coloured velvet.

I DO have a problem with the above photo, because the man in it looks like a horse’s patoot, since he is apparently wearing his little nephew’s bar mitzvah outfit to his wedding.

Wear clothes that fit, guys. If they are too small, you look like a complete doof. If they are too big for you (T-shirts that reach your knees), you look like a moron.

Christopher Robin needs to change his clothes and put on some socks.

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:03:28 +0000

The tux pictured above is tragic. But David Tennant’s burgundy velvet tux is an exquisite example of colored tuxes done well. It doesn’t hurt that he’s lovely, but the suit is also cut nicely and looks elegant rather than dated.

See him here: http://media.photobucket.com/image/david%20tennant%20velvet/faerie_queen/picspammychallenge10/dt09.jpg

By: KTB

KTB — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:06:05 +0000

That particular tux just screams “hipster wedding,” which is fine if you are actually a hipster, but I agree with Sarah that it will seriously date your wedding photos. And I really can’t wait for all of those hipsters to look back at their photos in horror, 20 years from now.

My husband threatened to rock a powder blue tux (for a March 2009 wedding, mind you!), but ultimately went with the classic black. Which made everyone involved much happier, especially the photographer and my mother-in-law!