# Giraffe neck tie **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 1, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-neck-tie/773561 "2016-12-01T21:54:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-neck-tie/773561/61 "2016-12-04T03:42:57Z")
Usually when people ask me top or bottom ------------- 😃 But I went bottom and it should be a bow tie. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-neck-tie/773561/62 "2016-12-04T05:05:11Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Well, if humans suddenly developed four feet necks, does anybody believe the ties would move up? Thought not. > > I mean, how would you even tailor the shirts? With a sort of necksleeve and buttons running up it? > > No. In case of sudden mass human neck lengtening, shirts would stay the way they are, and ties would stay where they are. > > Consequently, the natural place for a tie is at the bottom of the neck—after all, its function is to cover the buttons. Good point about the shirt. The loop of the tie is supposed to be hidden under a collar. So the question becomes where should the collar be on a giraffe’s shirt? Answer that and you’ll know where the tie should be. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-neck-tie/773561/63 "2016-12-04T20:05:43Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Napkins strike me as a bit tone-y for a giraffe. Which is not correct. Tone-y is what you expect from tigers, not giraffes… That’s Gr-r-reat! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-neck-tie/773561/64 "2016-12-04T20:58:00Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > A tie at the top would dunk whenever mr. giraffe drank. Also, it looks (more) ludicrous. This is what tie clips or tie tacks are for. > [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Well, if humans suddenly developed four feet necks, does anybody believe the ties would move up? Thought not. > > I mean, how would you even tailor the shirts? With a sort of necksleeve and buttons running up it? > > No. In case of sudden mass human neck lengtening, shirts would stay the way they are, and ties would stay where they are. > > Consequently, the natural place for a tie is at the bottom of the neck—after all, its function is to cover the buttons. As for this, if humans really did develop four-foot necks, clothes would be tailored to accomodate (perhaps with a long neck section), or people would wear shirts as they do now, but leave the neck bare. (I’ll bet that the jewelry designers will have a field day designing elaborate necklaces, though.) And again, if a human with a four-foot neck wears a tie at the bottom, it drapes over his chest. But that’s not the case for a giraffe, since he really doesn’t have a vertical chest. So it really might make sense to wear the tie at the top of the neck and drape it over the neck. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-neck-tie/773561/65 "2016-12-05T08:19:54Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > Not a stovepipe? Yeah, stovepipe, for irony. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-neck-tie/773561/66 "2016-12-05T09:00:54Z")
Tie at the bottom, otherwise it gets dunked in the waterhole\* every time the giraffe tries to drink. \*or grabbed by a crocodile [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-neck-tie/773561.md?page=3)