Perhaps no other male vestment has been more maligned over the past fifty years than the brown suit

First, there was the old British saw about never wearing brown in town. Churchill once impugned it as the mantle of a cad.

The khaki-clad legions of the post-World War era eschewed brown because it reminded them of their military service, while their bridges felt that the shade aged them. Finally, Charles Revson’s highly publicized quip about brown making men look like “shit” pretty much resigned it to the wardrobe of the nonconformist.