The trials of trim

What's a Chanel jacket without trim? The classic (hackneyed?) trim for red is either gold or black. Or both. Last week I was THIS close to getting iron-on gold trim. At the last second, fearing it would look cheap on a casual day topper (trying too hard at best and street wear at worst), I paused.

In the spirit of the fall tweed version, I gave myself permission to use brown (brown being the new black in recent years) and gold colours to trim my orangeish red mohair. I have just the ticket in my stash: a brown/black/yellow/taupe houndstooth, waiting its own turn to be turned into a snazzy suit. Birgitte (bubblegum4breakfast) showed us how to use bias-cut houndstooth strips to make a very cute fringe. To tie these completely different colours to the FF, I looped two mohair weft threads together & stitched them on top. (the warp of this fabric is pure plain wool, and only the weft thread has mohair loops in it).

And, and,,and?? I find the whole effect altogether too fuzzy. So back to the drawing board. Black and gold.

So, today's options are:

gold iron-on trim
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silvery iron-on trim
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narrow black lace (it's white because the black sold out - and if the store doesn't re-stock, I can dye it, since it's rayon).

Hmmmmm.

Any suggestions?

Any ideas?