What knot do you use?

[Peter Crowe]

I think most of them still do. Certainly my old school still demands school blazer, school shirt and school tie. The dress code then specifies black trousers or skirt and black shoes and further details what style of those is acceptable. As you say, a pain at the time and we always used every dodge to "personalise" our uniform - or so we thought ;) Funny, I see the kids waiting for a bus or walking to school now and think how smart they look.

I too am the 'right' side of 50 (but only by a couple of years) and my experience too with school uniform growing up in Scotland was as you say, we also tried to personalise it a bit depending on the fashions of the time. As an adult, I only ever use three knots, four-in-hand, half-windsor and the full-windsor, of which I most commonly use the half-windsor which started as a preference and has long since become a habit. I first learned how to tie the four-in-hand when I was around five and it is the knot my dad has always used. I learned both variations of the windsor knot as a teenager, but find the full-windsor even with a full spread collar a bit 'too perfect' a look.

[StevieR]

Four in hand was the easy one when I was a school boy. My dad taught me the Windsor and half Windsor when I was thirteen or fourteen. For the last thirty years I can't remember using anything other than the half Windsor.

[MNlad]

For me, it's a half Windsor, and a Shelby for shorter ties. At least on me, a full Windsor just seems too bulky. However, I'm going to have to try that Eldridge. It has a real flair to it.

[unixken]

I like the full windsor. I agree the half looks asymmetrical.

[MacMillans son]

I like the full windsor. I agree the half looks asymmetrical.

As a Buchanan, I would think you'd be quite used to that.

[English Bloke]

Windsor knot for me, I like it's symmetry. I also think that Eldridge is interesting.

[Truitt]

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/tieknots.shtml

Recently I've started using the Christensen as a change-up from the Windsor.

[David]

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/tieknots.shtml

Recently I've started using the Christensen as a change-up from the Windsor.

I have the book mentioned in the above link, 85 way to tie a tie. Its a great book. I got it many years ago an enjoy trying different knots, i wear a tie every day to work. Its good to be able to pick a knot to suit the tie and shirt collar style, St Andrew knot on 30th November :-)

[Jack Daw]

The Windsor is too big a knot for my tastes. I learned to tie a left-hander's variation on the half-Windsor, which I use each morning on my business ties.

[TheOfficialBren]

Windsor, 4-in-hand, and Onassis knots for me mostly.