Since everyone's weighing in on Foodie's PS, I feel compelled to, also. It's an interesting question to me because I don't have any boldly patterned blazers myself and thus have no experience wearing PS's with them.
On the basis of this one photo--which is, admittedly, not all that much evidence--I'm inclined to think boldly patterned blazers don't really need PS's all that much. A solid (or subtly patterned) blazer is (or appears to the eye as) an undifferentiated mass of color across most of the torso. On that kind of blazer, a PS can be a welcome, subtle break from the color's strong monotony. I think this is why PS wearers sometimes come to feel as if a jacket is strangely empty w/o one.
A blazer with a bold pattern (or, I suppose, color) doesn't have that problem. If anything, it's the opposite: there's too much going on and everything else in the outfit needs to be toned down accordingly. In Foodie's pic, the PS feels to me like an unwelcome interruption of the blazer's pattern rather than a pleasant surprise.
Basically, my wokring theory is that what in a tame blazer is a nice little sliver of variety becomes a distraction, a feeling of too-much-ness, in a bolder blazer.
On the basis of this one photo--which is, admittedly, not all that much evidence--I'm inclined to think boldly patterned blazers don't really need PS's all that much. A solid (or subtly patterned) blazer is (or appears to the eye as) an undifferentiated mass of color across most of the torso. On that kind of blazer, a PS can be a welcome, subtle break from the color's strong monotony. I think this is why PS wearers sometimes come to feel as if a jacket is strangely empty w/o one.
A blazer with a bold pattern (or, I suppose, color) doesn't have that problem. If anything, it's the opposite: there's too much going on and everything else in the outfit needs to be toned down accordingly. In Foodie's pic, the PS feels to me like an unwelcome interruption of the blazer's pattern rather than a pleasant surprise.
Basically, my wokring theory is that what in a tame blazer is a nice little sliver of variety becomes a distraction, a feeling of too-much-ness, in a bolder blazer.
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