I understand you could use them as napkin originally.
Here’s a case about a lawyer held in contempt for failing to wear a necktie
The dissenting opinion is good too.
Fashion, from what I can tell by reading the “Necktie” article on Wikipedia.
Yeah, I know, but it was the perfect car, at the perfect price, and I had spent a great deal of trouble locating it myself at a dealership 75 miles away. I’m sure they knew that, too.
I support kenobi_65’s response of “Fashion”. I think that some of the wonderment about neckties stems from a presumption that they must have had some utilitarian function, a long time ago in a place far away. But it is equally reasonable to presume that they are simply an adornment, no different from jewelry except that it is not metallic.
Which reminds me about handkerchiefs. Or, as they are known nowadays, pocket squares.
I’d say the same about high heels.
I used to own hundreds of ties. I had one with viagra tablets in an art deco type pattern.
A dozen or so years ago I took them all to GoodWill, along with my three suits. I decided I wasn’t going to wear a suit/tie ever again.
I’ve been lucky. I don’t go to funerals, so there’s that. My son got married on the beach in Florida. I wore my regular summer clothes. My daughter eloped (thanks, COVID-19!). I plan to be cremated, no viewing.
There are times I want to wear a tie, and more times that I don’t. I do not think people should generally be forced to wear ties or anything uncomfortable. But I also do not think not wearing one means you are a relaxed and laid back person - especially if you feel the need to dictate what others do. They gave there place, but you do you.
And think - car salesman near universally wear neckties, and smile a lot, and the car lots have lot’s of phony patriotism.
Wearing a tie does not necessarily make you well dressed or look professional. I had a job bagging and delivering groceries and the polyester red tie and striped apron we had to wear was pretty ridiculous.
That’s a good comparison. I don’t see how the wearing of neckties makes any more or less sense than the wearing of earrings or necklaces.
I owned an expensive silk tie that featured a photomicrograph of syphilis. I got raves ever time I wore it.
Infectious laughter, maybe?
I can get behind most of this (and would add that anything more than the most basic of caskets seems like an enormous waste of money and resources). But I’ve heard people say that they “needed” to see the body of their loved one to help them accept that they were really gone. And I don’t think of viewing the body as “the last memory I have of someone,” because what I’m viewing isn’t that person, it’s just the body they used to use.
There’s a good chancre that no one would recognize syphilis. Possibly just the crabs? I don’t nose who would, to be candidiasis.
My grandmother spent the last few years of her life in a nursing home, slowly withering. After she died, the mortician made her look a lot better than she had in many years. My mother said she found it comforting.
If you knew Syphilis, like I know Syphilis
Oh! Oh! Oh! What a girl
There’s none so classy
As this fair lassie
Oh! Oh! Holy Moses, what a chassis
Let’s twist again!
Like we did loose swimmers?
They apparently had a functional origin (a way to keep one’s feet in the stirrups while riding a horse), but they, too, became purely about fashion, as well as a status symbol.