Ties,regimental,university,college, club.

[O'Callaghan]

Jock, I read your post and realised I didn't have a university tie, and have never had one, more than a quarter of a century after graduating, so I got online to the student's union shop at my old alma mater (although that's really only what an American would call it, even if it is latin) and bought one immediately! Now I just have to wait for it to come.

The photo online was so bad that I am still not sure what it looks like. I don't think I can ever recall seeing anyone wear one before either, so that doesn't help. However, the colours of the Loughborough University scarf are purple, yellow and grey, so those are the colours I would expect to see in the tie, if only the picture had been good enough to tell what the colours were!

Our founder, in 1915, was himself a graduate of Imperial College, London, and they added a narrower grey stripe into the centre of the Imperial College colours of purple with two yellow stripes to create the Loughborough scarf. I need a new scarf too, but they are out of stock until October. I am not even sure where my old one is.

Assuming the background colour of the university tie to be purple, I certainly don't have a kilt in a tartan with a purple background, or even any purple anywhere. There aren't even very many tartans with purple in them atall. Isle of Skye, I suppose, but I've never even been there. Now, if there was a tartan for the university ...

[Jock Scot]

Jock, I read your post and realised I didn't have a university tie, and have never had one, more than a quarter of a century after graduating, so I got online to the student's union shop at my old alma mater (although that's really only what an American would call it, even if it is latin) and bought one immediately! Now I just have to wait for it to come.

The photo online was so bad that I am still not sure what it looks like. I don't think I can ever recall seeing anyone wear one before either, so that doesn't help. However, the colours of the Loughborough University scarf are purple, yellow and grey, so those are the colours I would expect to see in the tie, if only the picture had been good enough to tell what the colours were!

Our founder, in 1915, was himself a graduate of Imperial College, London, and they added a narrower grey stripe into the centre of the Imperial College colours of purple with two yellow stripes to create the Loughborough scarf. I need a new scarf too, but they are out of stock until October. I am not even sure where my old one is.

Assuming the background colour of the university tie to be purple, I certainly don't have a kilt in a tartan with a purple background, or even any purple anywhere. There aren't even very many tartans with purple in them atall. Isle of Skye, I suppose, but I've never even been there. Now, if there was a tartan for the university ...

At first sight many university/club/school/regimental ties look as though they go with little. In fact, forget all this matching up nonsense and just wear the tie with everthing you have and you will find that you end up wearing it without a thought-------with everything!