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I recently purchase a green grenadine tie. It may be bottle green, but I am not sure. It is dark, not a kelly or bright green. I am not sure what to wear this tie with since I typically have not worn green ties. What are your recommendations for good combinations with suits, sports coats, and shirts? I do not currently own any shirts that have any green stripes or checks. Thanks.

I'd treat it the same as a dark or navy blue tie.

Should look good with gray sharkskin or flannel.

I know this is a bit tardy for a late-December query, but ... I clipped a photo some time ago of a gent in a dark blue with off-white pinstripe db suit, off-white solid shirt, and a tie conforming to your description, and it looks great in my opinion, in part because it is quite unexpected. ** May I ask, where did you acquire your tie?

Do grenadine ties have any seasonal restrictions?

I've seen a solid dark green tie look good on a white shirt with a medium gray light tweed or flannel (hard to say from television) with charcoal chalk strtipes roughly 1" apart--this on a guy with dark hair and a complexion, though pale, in the olive range.

Grenadine in that color would of course be at home with many country tweeds, especially wide checks and windowpanes in subtle greens, browns, and grays, and could look smart against a brushed twill tattersall shirt in which one of the check colors complemented the green. The grenadine texture would suit the informality of tweeds and tattersalls, but the sheen of the silk would reduce the all-fuzzy monotony you risk when wearing a wool knit or cashmere tie with such an outfit.

Any coat in the tobacco / rust / ruddy brown range would sing with a tie like that, and if you're a person who can wear oranges, that would work too (I'm thinking sweater-vests or odd waistcoats). For waistcoats/sweater vests (or shirt colors), lilac, lavender, or butter yellow would be handsome. Depending on your coloring, dark red pinstripes or graph checks on white shirting would look good. Etc. . . .

Wear it in good health!

The color I was originally referring to is a forest green. I am not sure what bottle green looks like.

The tie in question is made by Drakes. But one can find forest green ties at many locations, including New & Lingwood.