Wide ties give me a fit. I can nail the narrower ones first time every time. Wore a black tie with a white shirt and a pretty high end Fedora at my last gig. Kind of going for the Blues Brothers look. I got hit on..........twice.
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Ties, man
- Thread starter knuckleduster
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Wear a bowtie. And tie it properly; it will impress.
Unless it is an entry level position. Then look like you need a job.
I had to learn in high school as my job required a tie. Took a little practice. But I've never tried to tie a skinny tie or anything fancy. Not sure if those are different.
I'm trying to think of the last time I actually wore a tie. I've probably got a dozen of them in my closet that I never wear.
Once I have a tie tied correctly, I never untie it. When I slip it off, I pull the big loop right over my head. All my ties are on a hanger, and I just put 'em on, cinch 'em up and out the door I go.
I was thinking about this thread when I was browsing the Salvation Army thrift store yesterday. They had the ugliest tie I've ever seen, for the low, low price of 99¢
It was this horrible purple/cranberry color, not quite mauve, but still subdued. It had green and gold grape leaves on the middle third of the tie, followed by purple and gold grapes filling up the entire bottom third.
It was this horrible purple/cranberry color, not quite mauve, but still subdued. It had green and gold grape leaves on the middle third of the tie, followed by purple and gold grapes filling up the entire bottom third.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Not sure I get all the hate. Some lives need them, some don't. Most dress clothes are less comfortable than sweats and a t shirt.
You're a wee bit sensitive about a lot of things, aren't you?
Ties aren't an "issue". They are simply traditional formal wear. Lots of cultures have traditional formal wear. Western culture is a culture. It is not "unjust" or "sexist". It's simply our culture. We should be allowed to have a culture like any other country/continent/tribe/nation/religion.
If you choose not to participate, fine. But taking it to some sort of passive-aggressive protest level is a bit much.
I wore a tie the other night when I took the wife out to dinner. Shirt, jeans and tie.
You know like we see those celebrities, that we don’t care about, are wearing.
The wife liked the “new” look.
I want to point out too that as of the past couple years, all my ties are Paisley. Various colors and styles but all Paisley all the time. Just a fashion choice. For the record, I love wearing ties, and get a lot of lady love due to wearing them.
This is not good for your ties. If you want them to last, untie them and hang them up after wearing.
Ties? Did someone mention ties? My father taught me to tie a full Windsor at around 9 years of age. Sometime in my late thirties I switched to a half Windsor. Hard to tell from the photo but the right half includes 52 Jerry Garcia labeled ties. My wife likes them. Finally had to ask her to stop buying them. Each hanger holds between 9 and 11 ties. About 10 ties have been added since this was taken. Crazy, I know. 
M. M.
M. M.
I want to dispel this myth. That is fine for my ties, and they will last just fine.
technically, you did not dispel anything. You just offered a contrary opinion. [/pedantry]
Half Windsor is the way to go. Been using it since I was a teen. But now I am into bowties which are a completely different animal. My favourite is conservative red and blue stripes on the front and skulls on the back.
technically, you did not dispel anything. You just offered a contrary opinion. [/pedantry]
Half Windsor is the way to go. Been using it since I was a teen. But now I am into bowties which are a completely different animal. My favourite is conservative red and blue stripes on the front and skulls on the back.
No, it is a myth. A very popular myth, that was once #7 on the all time myth charts, but lost out to the Vimisectidual Creation Story, which has since also lost favor.
In the universe, there was once a tie. The tie was left tied, and woe came unto all who suffered the pedantry of pedagogues. The visigoths played the unigoths, and there was a seven inning stretch. But the woe came and went, ebbing and flowing throughout all eternity, until one day, a dragon ate the sun, at which point the woe was pretty much a foregone conclusion. This went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on through seven ages of man, until the storyteller got tired of typing. It was then, and only then, that the severed spleen of the horicierous beast became cognizant, and learned to drive a stick shift.
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This is a real gut splitter.
However, I was reading this at exactly the same time the TV is on and one of the Bush granddaughters was reading from the bible during HW’s services. It all created a very weird juxtaposition in my head. No disrespect meant. It’s just how it happen to work out.
RIP 41.
All things being equal The Guy With The Tie will win every time.
