Wear black shoes with trousers in the gray/black and navy families ... it might work better with a tan suit, with khaki pants, or, in cooler weather, with a brown tweed jacket.

Since you’re wearing a sport coat and trousers, it’s important to create a color contrast between the two, because if you wear a jacket and pants of a similar gray, you’ll look like the guy ...

Compared to other wardrobe staples, pants are just kind ... sweater over a white tee with brown loafers and the pant style I'm writing this entire story about: gray straight-leg trousers.

Drew Iacovazzi, West Hartford, Conn. With lighter-brown shoes, any pants that fall in the broad deep-navy-to-mid-blue range should be fine, but avoid going too light: It can fast land you in ice ...

There is a movement toward brown shoes, I think, because they offer more potential in the patina department. Great brown shoes look luxurious. If the suit is dark gray, however, the shoes, if ...

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 ...