I have a brand-new charcoal gray chalk-stripe suit, and I asked some friends what shirt to wear with it. I pulled out a striped shirt, and everyone told me it was wrong to mix a striped shirt with ...

Q You wrote last week about buying striped suits. I already have a chalk stripe suit, but never know what to wear with it. How do I match shirts and ties with a striped suit?

Think of your suit as the neutral foundation and mix up the underpinnings you wear with it. That means a solid shirt and a striped tie one day, a checked shirt with no tie and pocket share the next.