# Bow ties for a job interview: yea, nea, or meh? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bow-ties-for-a-job-interview-yea-nea-or-meh/709189 "2015-01-07T03:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bow-ties-for-a-job-interview-yea-nea-or-meh/709189/61 "2015-01-09T01:06:52Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I agree with this. If it’s down to you and a couple of other dudes who wore the same boring suit, be memorable. If you want to be memorable, wear an eyepatch. Or, get a tattoo of a serpent on your face. Naga, Naga, Naganna-work-here-anymore was memorable. (see Office Space). Didn’t help him. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bow-ties-for-a-job-interview-yea-nea-or-meh/709189/62 "2015-01-09T01:08:16Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Bow ties may be extraordinary today, but I’ll bet you that in ten years or so, they’ll be considered perfectly normal. You’d be amazed by how many high schoolers wear them nowadays, even when a tie isn’t needed. They won’t be. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bow-ties-for-a-job-interview-yea-nea-or-meh/709189/63 "2015-01-09T01:14:33Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [List of bow tie wearers - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bow_tie_wearers) Now, what we need is a collection of pictures of people who passed a job interview wearing a bow tie. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bow-ties-for-a-job-interview-yea-nea-or-meh/709189/64 "2015-01-09T03:36:18Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Better a suit coat, IMO. Good luck on the interview - you’ll knock 'em dead. Don’t wear a suit coat (or suit pants) unless you’re wearing a suit. Sweater + sportcoat + trousers + bowtie (or necktie) = OK. Sweater + suit + necktie = weird. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bow-ties-for-a-job-interview-yea-nea-or-meh/709189/65 "2015-01-09T04:21:00Z")
That, specially the “suit pants” part, would depend on the specific suit. Most of my brothers’ suit pants are indistinguishable by cut from other pants bought by themselves. Matching a double-breasted jacket with anything other than its trousers, or at the very least trousers of an equivalent-quality suit: no way, and be very, very careful with the colors. Sports ensemble: a pair of trousers and two jackets, one matching (suit) and one suiting but not matching (sporty). ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bow-ties-for-a-job-interview-yea-nea-or-meh/709189/66 "2015-01-09T12:58:06Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > From urban dictionary: > Poindexter- one who looks and acts like a nerd but does not posses the supernatural intelligence of a nerd. Bein’ as I am of a certain age (similar to Sampiro’s, I believe), when I think of Poindexter, I think of the 1965 Barbie board game “Mystery Date.” [Poindexter](https://dn3pm25xmtlyu.cloudfront.net/photos/large/654409112.jpg?1347401186&Expires=1420894378&Signature=qV3yEAjs0dskAmS~fE5poZONajxw4-YzNEVp7fpLr7nmZ9o9dnKpxONdTRK~XeId71z9PtvkBwcSNd4E5qeixkF-EGk0TxaGoVh2PBQZ8NC~9ByXR8tjXJaiThqp2lIzP~p3oTyDH3exZP9v64ePV~hRwQGiNq3CN2-DRhtdFMI_&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA) was the dweebie guy you did NOT want to show up as your mystery date. Interestingly, it is Ken who wears the bow tie. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bow-ties-for-a-job-interview-yea-nea-or-meh/709189/67 "2015-01-10T18:40:59Z")
I’d say for a librarian job, a bow tie would be fine. For most anything else it would look a little silly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bow-ties-for-a-job-interview-yea-nea-or-meh/709189.md?page=3)