How do you feel about stripes or checks?
Knit ties are crap, they don’t tie well and the knots never look right.
You must knot (:D) know about silk knit ties. Yeah, they’re pricey, but a couple of 'em will last you decades, they have a great slick nubby hand and tie very neat, and they NEVER go out of style.
Lands’ End silk knits
A-Farkin’-Men!
Gentlemen, learn to tie a full windsor knot properly!
Aside: I think many people need to understand that an $80.00 tie, $120.00 shirt, and $1000.00 suit will look like arse if you don’t know how to properly “finish” the look. It is not just matching colors, it is proper sizing, the correct knot with the style of shirt collar, belt/belt buckle, shoes, etc.
MeanJoe
I’m a four-in-hand man myself, but I saw an author photo on a book jacket the other day that made me wonder if the full windsor might be coming back. This guy’s tie knot looked like a fist.
Wow is that really a current trend? I was actually thinking to myself last week as I contemplated how to dress for potential job interviews, that as I hate ties and think they are stupid, but seem to be needed in the current business climate, that I could be rebellious in some small way by buying a tie that was the exact same color as my shirt. It’s cool to think that other people are doing the same thing, if not for the same reason.
Agreed with the above regarding the suit/shirt/belt. And mind your gig line.
Get all of your dress clothes tailored as much as you can. It only costs a couple of bucks but get your shirts sized correctly and your jackets and pants taken in. Many of the dress clothes in America are designed like burlap sacks. Tailoring makes all the differance and can take a $20 dress shirt into the $100 look for $10 at the dry cleaners.
Wasn’t this the Regis look about five years ago? I don’t see that many matching-solid-shirt-and-tie combos much any more, and when I do I think, “That must have been in your closet since 9/11.”
As far as the knit ties go – man, I wore those when I was 17 years old (twenty years ago). I guess I should have held on to them! You’ll let me know when the thin leather piano-key ties come back, right?
Often you don’t have to even go that far.
If you wear a 34 inch sleeve, never buy a 34/35 shirt - it will look like hell. Buy the right shirt right off the bat - the 34 inch sleeved one - and you won’t have to get it altered.
Get your neck measured, and buy the right shirt for your neck size - it beats looking like a slob all day with your tie undone.
Only the most corpulent among us should buy the regular fit shirt - the rest of us should but the athletic fit or fitted shirt. Don’t be fooled by this billing - all it means is a shirt broader in the shoulders than at the waist. Most guys fall into this category.
Bring back paisley ties! And floral ties!
We’re only a few years away from the Doc Brown 2015 clear plastic double-tie, so look out for that.
Oh, Jebus. The 80’s are back! :eek: :eek: :eek:
It’s not much, but I’ll take it.
This whole thread makes me hearken back to the days when I was seriously turned on by men wearing ties.
Makes me think about the old saying about how women dress for women, not men.
If men were dressing for women, you guys’d be wearing chest-baring poet shirts like this (best picture I could find on short notice) and little skirted outfits like Colin Farrell and Jared Leto wore in Alexander.
Yes it is. A trend I’d been noticing lately and came here to post.
I wore those ties in grade school. This was the '90s.