I think there’s something cheerful about them, and I like it when people are confident enough to wear what suits them and could not care less if it is “in style”.
James Mason wore a bow tie throughout Bigger Than Life. He looked terrible.
Any article of clothing that could make James Mason look bad, I keep away from.
Also, if you’re the only man wearing a bow tie in a room full of men in neckties, there is the “dick chopped off” visual factor.
My kids like them, but that’s because they’re big Doctor Who fans. They also want me to get a fez.
My boss would take the office out for a Christmas dinner every year and would almost always wear a bow tie and attempt to get the gentlemen in the group to wear one too. One year I relented and got a nice tartan one. As we were leaving the restaurant and waiting on the sidewalk for a valet parking attendant to retrieve our car, someone in some sort of fancy sports car drove up and the seemingly tipsy woman handed me the keys, mistaking me for a valet parking dude. I was tempted to drive away (being a bit tipsy myself - wife was designated driver), but gently explained the situation and we all had a good laugh.
They look silly. Just say no.
Exactly.
I own one bow tie. I was on vacation near Acadia National Park about 20 years ago, made a dinner reservation someplace fancy like the Asticou Inn, and hadn’t packed a tie, so I bought one on whim in a Northeast Harbor haberdashery.
I also own a fez, but I keep in on the Phrenology Head.
No. Just no. The only time a bow-tie works is with formal wear, or on a little kid. Otherwise, you look like Orville Reddinbacher.
I use to like them, until I had to wear one for three years during my restaurant stint as a bartender.
Yet, still a fun job when you’re a young adult.
I just did a Google image search for “men wearing bow ties”. There were quite a few where the look worked rather well, but it wasn’t nearly the majority. It takes a certain combination of shirt, tie, jacket, face, body perhaps, etc., to look good I think, much more so than with a modern necktie.
I own several and wear them regularly.
I voted Other. Basically I’m indifferent. During my military career I had to wear one with naval mess kit on a few occasions.
I’m a tad lazy when it comes to fashion, however, though I have no problem dressing as required/appropriate for the occasion and I don’t like to look like a bag o’shit the rest of the time.
Definitely. As with most fashion statements, you have to punctuate it with a definitive period. If you’ve got a question mark, just don’t.
Hawt. So hawt. Seriously, if you want the girls to swoon, wear the bow tie…but don’t tie it. 
OTOH, a necktie makes a lot of guys look like used car salesmen.
I do like the battery-operated ones that spin around.
22 posts for a Doctor Who reference? The Dope is slipping.
I like them (real, ties yourself ones) but don’t wear them because I don’t want to stick out and have it be a talking point. It would be nice if wearing them as everyday wear was more common, then I might do it.
I met Sen. Simon in 1988 and purposefully wore a bowtie to the meeting. We complimented each other on our fine taste in neckwear.
Bow ties (and all other ties for that matter) are NOT cool, I will never wear them, wouldn’t be caught dead in one.
Only with a tuxedo.