If there is one. It’s that little not-tie thing that you see, for example, on womens’ military uniforms. [url=http://www.rhydin.org/uniform/usairforce/USAF7.jpg]Example* on the females in this picture. My sister (who wears such a uniform) has no idea what they’re called.
Gack. Ugly coding. Sorry. Fixed link
My daughter’s school uniform used to have one. The uniform company called it a tie.
My wife was USAF and used to wear one, although the style has changed since then. The official term then was “tie tab”, commonly just called a “tab”.
I did some research, and “tie tab” is still the official term, while “tab” is still the common term. If you’re curious, here’s a 6MB PDF http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af/36/afi36-2903/afi36-2903.pdf which is the USAF uniform manual. It shows & describes in excruciating detail what to wear & how to wear it. The tie tab is described on the bottom of page 76 & is shown in many pages before that. There are several shape variations used for different uniforms.
This ROTC site calls it a “neck tab”:
Is there any particular reason women don’t wear normal ties?
I know they’re traditionally masculine and I assume it’s a bit of cultural inertia but it looks like some of those women might be wearing trousers instead of skirts so I wouldn’t expect that to be the only reason. Or is it?
Pure speculation, but maybe the persons who set standards for this sort of thing figured that a standard necktie looks silly when it’s pushed forward and made to dangle freely in midair by female chestal accoutrements.
What about the chestal accoutrements of sixty year old bureaucratic generals then?
They tend to be accompanied by equal or greater stomach accoutrements, creating a mountainside-like slab of bellyflesh that supports the lower tie and virtually eliminates the “dangle” factor.
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Thanks for the answer. Simple and easy.