There are only three basic choices, with slight variations. Here, the only choice is color. In other words, it's a safe call. The safest, he recommends, are blue, gray, and beige. Now for the hard part.
Stripes come in many shapes and sizes.
Just to get you started, for example, there's the traditional stripe, the pinstripe, the chalk stripe, the wide-space chalk stripe, and the British stripe. These are the patterns that give you astigmatism if you stare at them too long. Glen plaid, also called glen check, originated as Scottish clan plaid. It's a boxlike design formed by lines crossing at right angles. Tartan plaids characteristically consist of a series of checks superimposed over each other to form a larger check.