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Brown and Burgundy: How to Wear Autumn’s Richest Colour Pairing
Chocolate, coffee and camel with bordeaux and merlot: five ways to wear brown and burgundy together, with the pieces to do it.
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Brown and burgundy sit next to each other on the colour wheel, which is why they work so easily: two warm, dark shades that make each other look richer. Here are five ways to wear them together, with the pieces to do it, from £256 to £3,007, all in stock now.
The coat and the bag 
Camel coat, burgundy bag
Start with the easiest version: a camel-brown coat and a burgundy bag. The Row’s Amapola is a calf-length trench in camel-brown silk, with a notch collar and a removable belt. £2,793.
For the bag, Victoria Beckham’s Sloane Frame 28 in dark burgundy leather with gold-tone hardware, £1,147, or Magda Butrym’s Julia, burgundy leather with rose charms, £1,480.
The knit and the skirt 
Brown knit, burgundy skirt
A coffee-brown cashmere roll neck from Extreme Cashmere, £829, over a burgundy knitted skirt. Alessandra Rich’s is bordeaux pointelle with gold-tone buttons, £508. Simkhai’s is ribbed burgundy wool in an A-line, £483.
The other way round 
Burgundy knit, brown skirt
Swap them: Fedeli’s merlot cashmere crew neck, £962, with Victoria Beckham’s dark chocolate button-up knitted midi skirt, £256. Add Dries Van Noten’s cropped brown cashmere cardigan, £895, when it turns cold.
The shoes 
The loafer and the boot
The smallest way in: a burgundy shoe with brown clothes. Santoni’s Carla loafers in burgundy suede, £795, or Church’s in polished burgundy leather, £790. Proenza Schouler’s Trap ankle boots come in merlot suede, £795, and in camel-brown suede as the Glove, £849. JW Anderson’s heeled loafer mules are chocolate suede with off-white stitching, £441.
All in 
Burgundy, grounded in brown
For evening, Saint Laurent’s hooded maxi dress in a fine bordeaux knit, £1,595, with the house’s brown corduroy double-breasted blazer over it, £3,007.
The rules that make it work
Keep the two shades at a similar depth: dark chocolate with bordeaux, coffee with merlot. Let one colour lead and use the other for one or two pieces, a bag or a shoe. And keep the metal warm: gold, not silver, looks right with both.
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