Is green & gray really a bad color combination?

Green is yellow and blue mixed. Gray is black and white. So gray is a cool tone and green is primary. I'm not sure since I never finished Theory of Colour by Goethe. I've never seen a clown wearing green and gray..Do people with gray hair look washed out in green apparel? I don't think seascape applies to any rules of fashion or comedy.

Yes!!! It is a terrible combination! They are from two different color families green is normally considered a warm color and grey is a cool color. They clash.

Many many men wear gray suits and ties w.green in them. Day-glo kelly or 60s avocado probably not a good idea, but there are many subtle hues of greyed-greens. And I saw a new Honda wagon today in a very nice green; I am going to try to dupe it for kitchen tile backsplash.

Sorry ladies and gents, this is one of my pet peevs:
I am going to have to respectfully disagree with Adina1968. Its not true that green is normally considered a warm color. Firstly, there is no "green" there are hundreds of greens , not to mention all of their associated tints and shades. A green can be cooled if its heavy on blue content, or warmed if its heavy on red content. Grey is similar in that it can be either cool or warm, depending on the proportion of colors within. Grey is not actually just black and white, if not only because blacks come in warm and cool shades (peach black, ivory black, mars black)--this is why there are so many greys in any line of paint. Lastly, I say, matching and clashing is all about style, if it feels wrong to you, then it very week might be wrong. It depends on your skin tone, hair color and all the rest--I have a dark olive green suit that wear with a neutral shirt and a cool grey tie..to each their own.

Awww, you beat me to it mistermister

Yall know too much about color! I wear clothes and my wife and kids usually picks them out because I don't even like to shop. People usually say I have great style so I thank my family.

Think of this, light grey Zegna suit, and green shirt, a discrete green, not like lemon green, but a soft one, it looks awesome!!! never wear red and green, that looks terrible!

I think it is all about your personal taste, personal style and coloring. Sometimes a color combination looks horrible on you, and then you see someone else wearing it and they look great! Down in south Louisiana you see some strange color combinations especially during football season. You see businessmen, attorneys etc. wearing purple and gold together even to work. Now that is a color combination. A professional guy in a purple suit with a gold ( yellow) tie all because it is football season and they are rabid LSU tiger fans! Like I said....it's all about individual style preferences, and I guess...having fun with fashion!

Purple suit? Gold tie? I think all can agree that a businessman who wanted to be taken seriously could save the flashy collegiate colors for the weekend. Unless, of course, his potential client was a huge LSU fan.

Of course, who am I to talk? I'm rarely seen outside a pair of flip flops. Gotta love the Sunshine State!

@Poser: Most people live and breathe LSU football down here. I would say that any businessman would feel proud to wear those colors to a business meeting and would be taken very seriously, (maybe even more seriously...this is Louisiana....) wearing the purple and gold. Baby boys don't wear blue here...at least not in football season...it's the purple and gold...hahaI Seriously, I don't mean they wear those colors everyday or even throughout the whole football season, but you do see those color combinations quite often. The purple may not always be bright purple, and the gold may not always be bright gold...but they are there. As for myself...I am a Tulane fan......I don't mean any disrespect to the Tiger fans.............but I support Tulane! And yes....I am in a very small minority!

I guess it's no different than seeing the Orange and Blue around here. Go Gators!

@Poser: LOVE the Gators! I play fantasy football in a league against my husband, cousin, brother and their friends. I am the only female player! My team's name is Acadiana Alligators....my logo is the Florida Gator. My nickname is Mzgator, because my first year playing...I beat them all and went to the Superbowl. I have the tshirt, cap, etc.....Needless to say...they were not happy that I beat them and especially not happy that I did it with a Gator logo.

OK, let’s conceed that wearing team colors has nothing to do with dressing tastefully and get back to the original question.

@kruger; that was asked over a year ago. I like a long, careful discussion, but even I am ready to move on…to this perhaps.