Quote Originally Posted by kiltedwolfman View Post
I learned to tie the full Windsor in the forces and the reason given to us was that a "Half knot makes for half a man". The knot on the Windsor can be made smaller by slight readjustment of it's location or by how tight you snug it up. A great big sloppy knot never looks good. As to the Four in Hand, personally I've never liked it, it looks like a poor attempt at tying a knot by someone who wasn't willing to take the time to leanr a proper knot. Just my oppinion.
Even when I was in air cadets, we caught ROYAL sh*t for not tying a full Windsor knot... I've done it ever since, except for those situations where the tie itself is just too thick for it to look nice...

Funny how such things stick with you. To this day, I press my clothes a certain way, and polish boots a certain way... Lol. I bet you can tell a lot about a man by the way he polishes his boots.