Ties: Conservative are darker colors, either solid with visual/actual texture (eg grenadine), or with small repeating patterns (eg, pindots.) Less conservative but still classy almost everywhere are striped ties (also called regimental, and repp ties, though apparently the latter is a bit of a misnomer, it's a common name for them.) Then you have all sorts of things like paisleys, multi-paisleys, etc that are more to taste. If you wanted just 3, I'd probably get one maroon (either grenadine or pindot), one navy (either grenadine or pindot), and one more colorful one. Whoops, forgot to hit submit on this yesterday