How to Wear a Brown Suit: Mai Atafo’s Paris Look Explains Everything

Have you seen Mai Atafo lately? The fashion designer is taking over the streets of Paris, and he is doing it in style. The founder of ATAFO stepped out in a tobacco-brown double-breasted suit that is making a very convincing case for why brown deserves far more attention in your wardrobe than it currently gets.

The suit itself is a two-piece double-breasted cut with wide peak lapels, classic button placement, double flapped pockets including a ticket pocket, and a subtle shoulder structure that gives the jacket a clean, confident shape. The trousers are high-waisted and wide-leg, tailored with a full-cut drape, single pleats, and thick turn-up cuffs that rest cleanly over his footwear. It is the proportions that make this look work. Everything is generous and unhurried, and the warm tobacco-brown pulls it all together in a way that feels both classic and completely current.

Mai Atafo sitting on a street bollard in Paris wearing a tobacco brown double-breasted suit, crisp white dress shirt, patterned burgundy silk tie, ribbed burgundy socks, dark oxblood leather penny loafers, and aviator sunglasses.

Now, if you have ever wondered what goes with a brown suit, Mai Atafo has just answered that question for you. Underneath the jacket is a white dress shirt with a sharp pointed collar and double cuffs showing just past the jacket sleeves. That combination, brown suit and white shirt, is one of the cleanest pairings in menswear, and it works precisely because the contrast is strong without being aggressive. The white lifts the warmth of the tobacco brown rather than competing with it. If you are building your…