Why it works

Layered steel gives the blade a rippled grey grain along its whole length, and the gloves answer with black leather panels and a scaled texture across the knuckles. No colour anywhere in the set, only surface and shadow.

What it costs

With Bowie Knife | Damascus Steel in Minimal Wear and Broken Fang Gloves | Unhinged in Minimal Wear, the set comes to $163. Bowie Knife | Damascus Steel is 50% of that; in Field-Tested it is $67, which saves $15 and is hard to spot in first person.