I am looking for some advice/opinions about matching pants and a sport coat. I have a dark brown corduroy sport coat (very narrow wales), and I am curious as to what color pants you would match that up with? I have a pair of khakis that it looks good with, and I would like to match it up with some other color pants; however, I can't seem to picture it in my mind's eye. What say you?
Sport Coat and pants
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If you already have the pants, just lay them out with the coat so that you see how they match. I think that just about any browns would go good with dark brown.
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I have 2 pair of khakis (one a little darker than the other), and 2 pair of black pants (one for suit, the other dress slacks). The black and brown is not right, that much I do know. I have black and brown shoes.
Corduroy is very casual so I would say khaki and blue jeans would look great. I have a navy corduroy jacket and wear it with jeans all the time.
If it is a 'warm' brown rather than a 'cool' brown, you may be able to do a dark red or rust pant with them. And regardless of colour, a nice moleskin pant would work well on the casual end of the spectrum, giving a different texture while maintaining the thick-n-warm theme of the corduroy jacket.
Burgundy or hunter green turtleneck with khaki pants would be the bomb!!
I love a sports-jacket/jeans combo- it can look as dressed-down or classy as you like but a corduroy jacket sends out a very particular message; post-grad/research fellow with jeans, professor with dress trousers. Khakis are about the middle ground, but if you want to go the whole "writer in residence" hog, get a pair of dark green moleskin trousers. If you like the khaki theme, a true-navy, linen, single-breasted jacket with 2 vents is very nice teamed with them. I've noticed a couple of different style-rules between The US and The UK- e.g. in The UK, only nouveau riches wear brown shoes with a navy jacket.
Olive green pants go great with a dark brown coat.
