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05-22-2010, 12:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago | | | tie knots
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05-22-2010, 01:26 AM
| | | | Double Windsor. There is no alternative.
Also, have you noticed the skinny little pencil ties in stores lately? What's up with those?
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05-22-2010, 01:40 AM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Double windsor is indeed the only valuable knot for the distinctive grown man.
Pencil style isn't new, it was super popular in the 80s. Take a look at David Bowie back then. It's a fad that comes and go, much like leather laces.
However, classic tie and double windsor are an instant classic. You can never go wrong. |
05-22-2010, 02:25 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Depends on the shirt for me. I'll go between Windsor and Four In Hand most often.
-Mike |
05-22-2010, 02:28 AM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | Double Windsor = Full Windsor. I usually use a half Windsor for a couple reasons. When the tie is properly tied, the tip of the tie will be at the center of the belt buckle. When tying a full Windsor, many ties have insufficient length to reach the belt buckle and still have enough of the back part to slip through the keeper on the back of the front part. A half Windsor can alleviate this problem.
Another thing: Do not EVER wear a tie with a short-sleeve shirt, unless you live in Arizona. Those people don't seem to care how doofus they look. Besides, it's hot over there. Anywhere else, you will immediately be identified as a Mormon missionary. Why give lip service to the formality afforded by a tie, when you're going to cancel it out with a short-sleeve shirt?
Never tie a four-in-hand unless you're under 25 years old. Never wear a bolo tie unless you are, again, in Arizona.
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05-22-2010, 02:32 AM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Munjibunga Never tie a four-in-hand unless you're under 25 years old. | Eh, I'll go four-in-hand with a couple of my shirts. I'm 38.
-Mike |
05-22-2010, 02:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | | It varies by culture. In the UK a full Windsor can indicate the lack of a public school education in certain circles. I use the know that best suits the shirt and tie I am wearing.
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05-22-2010, 03:03 AM
| | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | four in hand IMHO is only good for casual, loose around the neck uses and of course for cute japanese emo girls. |
05-22-2010, 03:38 AM
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Found this diagram on Wiki for the full Windsor. Isn't this the most useless image ever?
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05-22-2010, 09:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Western Pennsylvania | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gopherbassist
Found this diagram on Wiki for the full Windsor. Isn't this the most useless image ever? | Yeah, I saw that and I was like, "Is that supposed to make sense?!"
I really don't know what the knot I use is called. I always thought it was a Half-Windsor, but Wikipedia says no. |
05-22-2010, 09:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Depends on the tie. With a regular tie, that has enough length, I go with a full Windsor. With a skinny tie (aka a pencil tie) I like the half Windsor. I have no idea what a four in hand looks like, off to youtube.
lowsound
EDIT: so I just found out that a four-in-hand is what I thought a half windsor was. Interesting.
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05-22-2010, 09:50 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Iowa | | i can only do a tie one way, the way my dad showed me. i don't know what it is called. i only wear a tie one day a year, halloween.
when i read "four in hand," i thought - porn act.
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Originally Posted by Jazz Ad four in hand IMHO is only good for casual, loose around the neck uses and of course for cute japanese emo girls. |
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05-22-2010, 09:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Iowa | | 
you never go full windsor
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05-22-2010, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Reynoldsburg Ohio | | | double windsor every time.
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05-22-2010, 10:44 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Clip on paisely with a plaid jacket for the win. |
05-22-2010, 10:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gopherbassist
Found this diagram on Wiki for the full Windsor. Isn't this the most useless image ever? |
Looks like the female reproductive system.......
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05-22-2010, 10:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Augusta, GA & Saint Louis, MO | | | Full windsor. Works with a 3 piece suit.
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05-22-2010, 10:50 AM
|  | Friends, Romans, Bass Players... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Munjibunga Another thing: Do not EVER wear a tie with a short-sleeve shirt, unless you live in Arizona. Those people don't seem to care how doofus they look. Besides, it's hot over there. Anywhere else, you will immediately be identified as a Mormon missionary. Why give lip service to the formality afforded by a tie, when you're going to cancel it out with a short-sleeve shirt? | I beg to differ. Ever hold a bass for an hour with a suit on in a Catholic Church with no AC on a hot day? You'll be glad you have a short-sleeve shirt on, and if you look like a doofus, you won't care! 
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05-22-2010, 11:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway | | I don't see much difference on all those knots at all. Windsor, half windsor, four-in-hand, the difference is minimal. After watching that how-to-tie-a-four-in-hand knot I even found out I tie what I guess would be a half four-in-hand  |
05-22-2010, 11:17 AM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Clip on paisely with a plaid jacket for the win. | Craig Sager, is that you?
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