Ten Ways to Wear a Camel Jacket (Including the One You Keep Avoiding)

Camel over black, camel over cream, camel over denim. These are safe for a reason, and the difference between fine and excellent is contrast level. Camel with true black is graphic and sharp. Camel with cream is soft and expensive-looking. Camel with a dark rinse bootcut jean sits in the middle and works everywhere.

Camel and burgundy is the best color combination of the season and almost nobody wears it. Camel and forest green reads equestrian. Camel and pale pink is the softest thing you'll put on all year, and camel with a leopard accessory — a scarf or a bag — looks styled without effort.

The pairing to skip is camel and mid-brown. Too close to read as intentional, too far apart to read as tonal.

Camel is warm, so gold-toned jewelry belongs with it: a layered gold necklace at the neckline, or a two-tone watch where the sleeve ends.