Your Inside Scoop to the Suits and Styles of the ESPN Monday Night Football Analyst Team
Last night’s match-up between the Steelers and the Dolphins was a good one and both teams came to play! Ultimately, the Steelers outplayed Miami and emerged victorious, 27-14. In the booth, Joe, Booger and John also came to play (as they do every Monday night) and their on-air custom suits communicated that drive and professionalism perfectly! Here’s what they wore (as described by Britches Bespoke’s Mark Rykken):
Joe Tessitore – Play by Play Analyst
Joe wore a medium to dark blue grey glen plaid suit that had a light blue windowpane over-check in it. His shirt was a sophisticated multi blue and white antique stripe, which was accompanied with a rich burgundy ground tie with light blue dots. His pocket square was blue with a white border. Again, because there’s quite a bit of contrast between Joe’s hair color and his skin tone, Joe will always look best in outfits that also produce a fair amount of contrast. In the case of this particular outfit, it’s the white in his shirt that provided the proper amount of contrast against his suit and tie. In addition, Joe’s outfit is a good example of how you can put 3 patterns together that compliment and harmonize with one another. The most important rule on pattern mixing is understanding scale, meaning never put patterns together that are of the same scale. An example would be if one is wearing a solid shirt and a stripe suit where the stripes are ½” apart, you would want to mate it with a tie with a pattern that is either smaller or larger than ½ “. The second rule is that it’s easier to pair patterns together that are of different designs. Joe’s outfit is a great example of both of these principles, as his suit is a plaid, his shirt has stripes, and the pattern in his tie are dots (or circles if you will), and all three patterns are different in scale from one another.
Booger McFarland – Analyst
Booger’s outfit would command attention whether he was in the boardroom or the broadcasting booth! Booger wore a classic Wall Street navy bead stripe suit, with a crisp white solid broadcloth shirt (sometimes only a traditional solid white shirt will do). His tie was a navy and silver woven in a macro hounds tooth pattern, and his pocket square was white with a medium grey border. Aside from Booger possibly getting mistaken for being the CEO of a Wall Street investment banking firm, his outfit also serves as a good example of what I discussed about pattern mixing in Joe’s outfit summary.
John Parry – Rules and Officiating Analyst
John wore a medium blue tic-weave suit. His shirt was a classic pencil stripe in light blue, and it was mated with a gorgeous rust ground tie that had navy and light blue geometric pattern in it. Rounding out the look, his pocket square was light blue with a white border. John’s outfit is another great example of how effective the color of the clothes we wear can help to flatter the wearer. John’s coloring is completely different than Joe’s and Booger’s which is why I designed his wardrobe completely different than theirs. John has blue eyes, is medium to fair complected, and his hair is light brown and closely cropped. Therefore there is very little contrast produced between his hair color and skin color, which is why John will always look better in tonal (medium) colors and outfits that also produce little contrast. In addition, you can further enhance the effectiveness of any outfit by selecting items with colors that will compliment your skin, hair, or eye color. In the case of Johns outfit, the rust in his tie brings out his hair color, and the blue shirt and the light blue in the tie compliment his eye color.
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