1. A plaid tie, checked shirt and plaid suit make up a combination that is (a) in good taste because it brings together related patterns, (b) not in good taste because thee are too many clashing lines in the pattern of suit, shirt and tie.
2. A good accent for a striped brown suit and tan shirt is a green, rust and cream-color striped tie (a) True, (b) False
3. The monk-front shoe (a) has loosely woven monk's cloth on the toecap, (b) has a plain toe with a buckled strap fastening over the instep, (c) is made of monkey skin.
4. When you wear a belt with a blue suit, a good color choice is (a) light tan, (b) black, (c) light gray.
5. Casein fiber, sometimes blended with woolen fibers in fabrics for men's apparel, is derived from (a) milk, (b) air and coal, (c) refined petroleum.
6. A polo coat is () one worn only by polo players, (b) a plastic-coated fabric that is waterproof, (c) a tan camel hair of cashmere topcoat in double-breasted model.
7. One trend in shoes is toward wing-tip models with (a) thick soles and hefty leather uppers, (b) thin soles and light leather uppers.
8. Since most men prefer country jackets of small-pattern tweeds, they tend to combine with them sweaters with (a) more colorful and plaid designs, (b) cross stripes, (c) vertical stripes.
9. Best color for wool socks worn with a brown tweed suit is (a) gray, (b) navy, (c) brown, maroon and tan argyle plaid.
10. The leading style in raincoats is the single-breasted raglan model which has sash pockets. The openings of these pockets are set on lines that are ( a) horizontal, (b) slanting, (c) vertical.
11. If you have a pair of braces for the trousers of each suit, (an excellent time-saving device, incidentally) your best bet for a blue suit is a pair of braces in (a) blue and yellow, (b) green and gold, (c) brown and tan.
12. For wear with a brown tweed topcoat, brown hat and gray worsted suit your first choice in gloves is (a) gray mocha, (b) reddish-brown capeskin, (c) white kid.
13. Cuff links of colored stones worn with a blue and white striped shirt, blue and maroon figured tie and grayish-blue suit should be (a) blue, (b) tan, (c) green.
14. Best choice in country hats for wear with a small-patterned gray tweed jacket and gray flannel slacks is (a) brow Homburg, (b) greenish mixture pinched-crown model, (c) tan brims-up type.
15. A man wearing a gray suit, maroon- and gray-striped shirt and a blue-figured tie should select a chest pocket handkerchief in (a) green and white, (b) maroon and gray, (c) tan and yellow.
16. The correct length of trousers of a business suit is (extending to one inch above the shoe top, (b) designed so that slight break appears above the instep, (c) so that deep folds form over the instep.
17. Processed cotton jackets are popular for cold because (a) they absorb rain and moisture, (b) they repel rain, (c) you con keep your score on the cuff.
18. Brown chukka boots may be worn with (a) a dark blue business suit with double-breasted jacket, (b) gray sharkskin business suit, (c) brown tweed country jacket and flannel sacks.
19. Most appropriate jacket with a blue, red and gray plaid wool sport shirt is (a) brown Glen Urquhart plaid, (b) a blue hound's-tooth check with overplaid, (c) a gray heather mixture tweed

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