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 ...

By Vanessa Friedman Sometime in the last two years, it became fashionable for men to wear brown shoes with blue or black pants. I thought there was a rule against this. How did the new trend start ...

fashionable Italian men have made brown shoes with blue suits chic. Anyway, if you don’t wear brown shoes with slacks, what are you going to wear them with? Kilts? I tend to wear brown shoes ...