I enjoy a brown suit. I find it to be the versatile suit. You get both the formality of the suit silhouette and the easygoing mood from the brown shade. Clearly the versaility depends on your work. In some trades brown suits are no-go. If, however, you have the freedom to dress more or less as you please, the loosly defined brown suit seems to give more options that the fixed navy blue suit.
This article in a German magazine from around 1960, supports the perspective.,
Photo: The Journal of Style
Hi Torsten.
And what fabric would be best to actualise the iteration of ‘the versatile brown suit’? The depictions above show a tweed herringbone pattern. Though i suspect the usefulness of that would be evry limited.
So brown worsted? Solaro? Linen? Cotton?
A dark, perhaps slightly mottled, brown worsted would be the most versatile choice I guess. There is usually one or two samples in the classic books from Scabal, Harrisons, Smith etc.