Banker's stripes and flowers

January 30, 2008:
Today I chose to wear my gray pinstripe JCrew suit with a light blue shirt and a tie by Gianfranco Ferre. The tie was purchased at the Saks 5th Ave outlet in Woodbridge, VA. I bought it on a shopping trip with my sister when she was in town this past fall. The tie is a punchy-orange, with a wispy flower pattern (maybe poppies). I liked the simple, sparse pattern of the flowers and the way that you have to look closely at the tie to see the fact that the flowers look antique in some sort of way, like wallpaper from 1890. I thought it worked well with the power of the chalk stripe of the suit. It's a little banker-ish, and that isn't truly me, but I think that the simple pattern of this tie softens it significantly.