Yeah dark suit + dark shirt = not a good combination on anyone. It ends up looking very heavy. (Have you seen the Children in Need photoshoot yet? You probably have, but, you know, just in case...anyway, they bring out the dark suit/dark shirt again there, and it doesn't look good.) But I would be quite happy with the Smith & Jones look more often, if someone in the costume department saw fit to do that.
Really, the only reason that I rank the brown suit below the blue suit is because I'm madly in love with the "Smith & Jones" look. (And because for some reason there's something off to me about the pants on the brown suit; I don't know what it is.) I don't think I've ever seen the brown suit photograph poorly, though...
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Really, the only reason that I rank the brown suit below the blue suit is because I'm madly in love with the "Smith & Jones" look. (And because for some reason there's something off to me about the pants on the brown suit; I don't know what it is.) I don't think I've ever seen the brown suit photograph poorly, though...