Silk/cashmere blends are 100% awesome.
H would only wear blue, never lavender or any shade of purple, but that’s just him. S is similar.
My hubby is fair, blonde, blue eyes and he wears lavendar shirts with his suits, and I buy him all colors of the rainbow of lightweight cashmere sweaters. He even wears pink, and looks darn good in it, and still manly. I personally don’t care for any color of purple for myself and I don’t think I own a single purple item.
I never would have considered lavender even for dress shirts until H was buying a suit and sales person put a lavender shirt with it. Great look. But still not sure I’d do it for a sweater.
It’s really a more muted lavender, looks like it must have a touch of grey in it. It’s not an Easter egg lavender. That’s why I thought it would look nice with his mostly silver hair.
My husband wears v-neck cashmere sweaters to work all winter long. I started out buying him grey, blue, black and brown, but have expanded to red, purple (light and dark) and green. He wears a perfectly ironed button down under the sweater (I always ask why he bothers ironing the whole shirt when just the collar shows!).
I’ve gotten lots of the sweaters at Jos. A. Bank (before it became affiliated with Gentlemen’s Warehouse, so I can’t vouch for whether it’s a good place to buy them now).
@conmama --with a touch of grey I’d do it.
DH wears lavender and pink shirts all the time. It’s his concession to owning only gray and blue suits. He does wear vests, but I’ve never thought about lavender. Oh no! I must shop! (scurries to online sites)
Especially if it’s a lavender/heather sweater. Sounds like he’d look really good in it.
H and S are both fair, blond, blue-eyed and look wonderful in pink and light purples. They get a ton of compliments when they wear those colors.
Is this the lavender?
http://bananarepublic.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=1071882&pcid=1071882&vid=1&pid=486045302
No he wouldn’t wear it. My husband is color blind and has to think carefully about what he is wearing. Any doubt and he won’t put it on.
My husband wears lavender and pink. He look great in those colors, with his white hair and blue eyes. He works in a fairly conservative industry, but has a lot of self-confidence.
@BunsenBurner …yes, that’s it. I tried to copy it once, but it wouldn’t paste. It’s perhaps a little brighter, not much, than the photo.
My general rule is that I don’t buy people clothes to expand their repertoire. My mom did that for many years–I’m not a fashion person, and she was (in her 80s less so now). I like the same things that I like–I don’t wear trends. I remember in the nineties she bought me a watermelon pink and mint green “wind suit”–go ahead and google that–because I always “wore the same things”. Finally convinced her that I like what I like–please don’t try to change me.
Just call it gray
The photo in #29 makes it look like silver/grey, even tho the description color is lavender. If it looks like the photo, H and my S would both wear that. It’s attractive and doesn’t look at all lavender to me.
@conmama That looks grayish. That color would be fine for my DH.
@Conmama Actually a good strategy if DH questions could be to confuse him. Call it periwinkle or seamist. Or something like that.
^^ True. Guys only know about 10 colors. We describe other colors by using combinations of those ten and adding suffixes like “ish”. So the sweater in the linked picture is “bluish-grayish” in guy-speak. If you call something periwinkle we’ll just give you a blank look followed by a nod like we know WTH you’re talking about but we’ll actually be wondering if it’s too soon to order pizza again for dinner.
@anomander True. I wasn’t going for guy speak. I was going for confusion. But guy speak could work too. Manly confusion could be a compromise strategy. Pirate’s gray.