Striped shirt with a striped or patented tie, acceptable ?

striped shirt + plain tie = ok
striped shirt + dots tie = ok
striped shirt + striped tie = wrong

Striped tie = Acceptable, unless it’s trying to look like a club tie.

Otherwise, I would agree with this;

striped shirt + plain tie = ok
striped shirt + dots tie = ok
striped shirt + striped tie = wrong

(Today’s sartorial showing is a plain white shirt with a rather dashing Liberty print tie!)

striped shirt + plain tie = ok
striped shirt + dots tie = ok wrong
striped shirt + striped tie = wrong

FTFY

For me, plain (ideally white) shirt is the way to go, with a plain, striped or spotted tie

I’m very interested in the OP’s patented tie… what’s so special about it?

This was my understanding:
striped shirt + plain tie = ok
striped shirt + dots tie = wrong
striped shirt + striped tie = wrong
Plain Shirt + pattern tie = ok

However these longstanding rules of engagement seem to have been thrown out of the window of late.

PS: F*ing i-pad spell checking thing how do you get from patterned to patented.

Easy. One item can be patterned, the other may not.

And by patterned, I mean non-plain