Kuzano wrote:
In the fashion world, some few years ago, there was all this fashion work regarding "what season are you, etc?" I knew some people who used to do fashion consulting for business type.
Yellow ties denoted a person who could not be trusted under any circumstances.... dishonesty in the extreme.
This always comes first to my mind when I saw/see anyone with a yellow tie. Walk... go across the street, or just walk away!
Wearing a yellow tie does not necessarily make you dishonest, any more than wearing purple makes you royal. It might indicate that you may be ignorant that yellow is a cautionary color and perhaps sends the wrong message. Purple may seem pretentious, unless you are truly royal.
That said, psychologists will tell you the "safest" business clothing colors are blue, burgundy, maroon, crimson, gray, silver, gold, tan, khaki, maybe dark olive, plus black, and white.
Lighter greens and most browns are highly informal service colors (walls of the service corridors of hotels are often bile green and poop brown). Magenta, fuchsia, and pink are just wrong on most men. Yellow reminds us of stinging insects, biting snakes, yellow caution lights. Orange is fruity.
We had a sales rep at one company I worked for who lived in a small town in Ohio. He was notorious for wearing cheap brown polyester sport coats, dark green shirts, and bright yellow ties and slacks to our sales meetings. One year, when he finally had been reasonably successful, the VP Sales walked up to him, and handed him a copy of Dress for Success and a gift certificate to spend at a decent men's clothier. We never saw him in unfashionable clothes again. His sales doubled in three years! Was it the wardrobe? The confidence boost? Who cared! It worked.