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 ...

I was going to wear some brown slacks and a blue or white dress shirt. Looking in my closet, however, I only a pair of black oxfords that would be appropriate as footwear. <BR><BR>People with some ...

Q I've always been told that men should not wear brown shoes with a blue or a black suit, that you should wear only black shoes. Yet I see a lot of guys wearing brown shoes with them. Which is right?

Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump's top economic adviser and National Economic Council director, reportedly tells colleagues that they shouldn't wear brown shoes with blue suits. Black shoes ...

Variations exist, of course, but the simplest rule is this: With blue suits and gray ... dressing comes in: wear brown shoes in summer with your khaki pants combinations, perhaps with a pastel ...