Your Inside Scoop to the Suits and Styles of the ESPN Monday Night Football Analyst Team
The Seahawks. The 49ers. Overtime. Until literally the last second. It went until after midnight on the East Coast but it was worth it! It was a great game and the Monday Night Football analyst team was even better! Here’s Mark Rykken’s account of what they wore in the booth:
Joe Tessitore – Play by Play Analyst
Joe wore a dressy navy self-herringbone suit. His shirt, a beautiful small check plaid in medium blue and white. And he paired it with an elegant woven purple ground tie with a generously spaced navy and grey foulard pattern in it and his pocket square was blue with a white border. Although Joe wore a formal navy suit, I dressed it down with a blue and white check shirt and a swanky purple ground woven tie, giving the ensemble a less dressy but more stylish and sophisticated look. And once again, notice the pattern matching between his shirt and tie. The scale of the small check plaid in the shirt does not conflict with the spacious foulard pattern in the tie.
Booger McFarland – Analyst
Booger wore a classic glen plaid suit in oxford grey with a subtle medium brown windowpane over-check in it, and it’s styled with a peak lapel. He wore it with a beautiful medium blue solid broadcloth shirt and a woven gold ground tie with a navy and light blue geometric repeat pattern in it. Booger’s pocket square was white with a dark grey border. This is one of my favorite suits for Booger as the windowpane over-check in the suit compliments his coloring. The gold ground in the tie further highlights the color of the windowpane, and also note the design relationship with the larger square pattern of the suit with the smaller scale square pattern in the tie. On a final note, I’ve mentioned in past posts that a peak lapel is a good styling choice for a plaid or windowpane suit. The reason is, a peak lapel as opposed to a notch lapel creates a continuous line that ones eye will unconsciously follow. This line cuts across the plaids box design giving the suits silhouette a slimmer more elongated appearance.
John Parry – Rules and Officiating Analyst
John was back in stripes this past Monday night – not in the black and white ones he wore on the field for 18 years – but in a new set of stripes of an entirely different color! It’s ironic that the two colors that John wore for 18 years (black and white) is the least flattering combination he can wear based on his coloring. Black and white produces the greatest amount of contrast of any two colors, and therefore will only look good on individuals who coloring also produces a lot of contrast. Individuals that produce the highest amount of contrast have black hair and have fair to medium skin tone. Those that produce the least amount of contrast have light colored hair with fair to medium skin tone. John falls in this last category and he also happens to have blue eyes. John wore a medium grey suit with a light tannish gold stripe. His shirt, a medium blue solid broadcloth which he wore with a tannish gold ground woven tie that had a navy and light blue geometric pattern in it. His pocket square was light brown with a white border. Not only does John’s outfit collectively produce very little contrast, every single component in Johns ensemble compliments and flatters his individual skin, hair, and eye color.
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