The former president of Florida State University, “Sandy” d’Alemberte, always wears a bowtie. He’s the only person with whom I’m personally acquainted (well, I’ve met him on at least one occasion, and would frequently see him riding his bike around campus) who wears one.
I like d’Alemberte all right, but I can’t get over the impression that bow ties look kind of dorky–at least in a contemporary context.
The bowtie guy on CNN is a total asshat, IMHO.
A Nation of Islamite
If you’re wearing a bowtie, you might as well leave your dick at home. For some reason, bowties just seems so unsexy to me.
Oddly enough, I don’t dislike them. I think they make a gentleman of a certain age look quaint.
Somewhere in New Zealand, there is a Light-up Bow-tie.
Upon announcing my pending trip to New Zealand, a friend of mine who deals in Novelty items (posters, glowsticks, stickers and the like) dared me to wear a sample of his Light-up tie (Bright Orange, with 4 flashing multi-color LEDs - the battery went into a pocket with a thin black wire connection the two) to the ‘Millenium’ night eve party.
I of course did just that , and then presented it to our tour guide (it wholely suited his personality…).
I have a black pre-tied (clip on?) Bow tie - never really have any need to wear it.
Already in Use, YOU GO BOY! I bet all the girls drool in your wake.
Bow Ties, for me, conjure up visions of Frank Sinatra in his younger years. (too skinny, but very handsome) I agree with Orange Skinner that bow-ties probably suggest being at peace with one’s own endowment.
I think it’s a general attempt to stand-apart from the masses, and that should always be encouraged.
I Go With Weenie
I don’t trust anyone in a bow-tie except Sen. Paul Simon. It’s contrived and evil. If a blind date showed up to my door in a bow-tie, I’d have to feign death.
Add a pork-pie hat and I’ll sell tickets to the beating this guy is sure to receive.
Bow-tie. My ass!
Who wears a bowtie way too often. I think it detracts from his arguments.
As tough as it is to come up with something stupider than a necktie, a bowtie is such a beast. They cannot be loosened, requiring that the top button remain fastened.
Add me to the folk who suspect bowtie wearers of needing/wanting a gimmick. Either a badge of their dorkiness/eccentricity, or an attempt to show they are cool/macho enough to wear such a dorky tie.
Add me in with those who thinks a bowtie takes away from your arguments. I just wind up focusing on the bowtie…"Why is he wearing that? Does he know what a goober he looks like?
Well, the only person I know who wears one had (relatively) great success with it. He was and is a plain, quite overweight computer programmer type who used to favor rumpled t-shirts. As he got older and lonelier he decided to change his image and, rather than trying to look cool, decided to simply look more pulled together. He had done his townhouse in literary English gentleman’s club and decided to do himself over in much the same fashion, so he stared wearing nice pants and shirts, tweedy jackets and a fedora. Think of a very large Rex Harrison.
He is now happily married.
cher - your story reminds me of one lawyer I have encountered several times. He wears a bowtie - as well as seersucker suits, straw boaters, and grooms and conducts himself in every other way imaginable to play a certain role as a tremendously affected upper crust lawyer. His image is so complete it is hard to imagine it could not be part of a detailed plan/effort.
In my eyes, he succeeds famously at coming across as a buffoon.
I think they are jaunty and individualistic and fashionable in a neoconservative way. I love them. A guy in a bowtie will always get a second look from me.
One of my college professors wore bowties each day. His wife made a lot of them, so he had them in some pretty wonderful colors and patterns.
If he’s not an old southern Colonel Sanders type,
I think it’s a guy trying to manufacture eccentricity, and therefore needs to be put on the list of people who deserve to be kicked in the behind, hard.
same goes for big moustaches
I dunno, I think some of you are being too hard on bow-tie wearers. If they really are buffoons or are affected in their general attitude, it’s one thing. My particular friend was just dressing as an extension of his old-fashioned personal tastes in decor, literature, etc. He was also recognizing his physical limits, and he truly did look nicer that way, possibly just because he’d obviously taken some care over his appearance.
Well, I’d have to cut some slack for a guy that costumed his whole life in the manner of a bow-tie wearer. But everyone else is suspect and probably not getting laid much, either. It’s just soooo unattractive!
Ice-cream man.
They made a “comeback” about 8 years ago for a brief period. (I still have mine.) Nowadays, I’d say forget it.
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So, wearing a bow tie is craving attention/personal inadequacy/pseudoeccentrism, but tattoos and piercings are expressions of rugged individualism?
I think of Les Nessman from WKRP.
Who, when you think of it, was a pretty cool guy in his own way.
