Bow Ties

[zirrow]

I'll also recommend The Tie Bar for bow ties. I try to wear one once or twice a week as it classes up a shirt without putting a long piece of fabric in front of me to swing around and get caught up in everything it possibly can, though I still occasionally wear a standard tie. My ties are also more of a country-casual style as there is very little happening in Southwest Oklahoma of a formal nature. I don't think I even have a tie I could wear to such an event, let alone the rest of the necessary accessories. Where I work, if we were anymore casual, I'd have to show up in pajamas, so I've recently decided to class it up a bit and come in wearing a button down shirt, tie, and oxfords a few times a week. So far, it's been catching on and the owner and his wife will play along every now & then.

[Tobus]

Where I work, if we were anymore casual, I'd have to show up in pajamas, so I've recently decided to class it up a bit and come in wearing a button down shirt, tie, and oxfords a few times a week. So far, it's been catching on and the owner and his wife will play along every now & then.

Slight thread hijack:

I started the same thing at my office a couple of years ago, with "tie Tuesdays". Some people just roll their eyes, but several others have joined in. It starts to catch on when people want to look and act more like professionals!

[EagleJCS]

Slight thread hijack:

It starts to catch on when people want to look and act more like professionals!

Isn't it interesting how one's behavior changes when one dresses just a little bit differently (either 'up' or 'down')?


On topic:
I have a self-tie satin black bow tie to wear for formal events (a Christmas present I asked for a couple of years back as a result of one of the threads here). I also own several pre-tied bow tie/cummerbund sets purchased from one of our local formalwear shops - they have an annual sale to purge some of their merchandise and it's possible to get a decent tuxedo (albeit slightly used) for under $200. I bought them years ago before I started learning more about how to dress 'properly'. None of them are appropriate for Highland wear.

[Lime]

I bow to you gentlemen who profess to be able to easily tie a bow. I struggle mightily every time I want to wear one. I just can't remember from one wearing to the next how I did it.

Just remember that it is basically the same as tying your shoe laces and you will be a "bowtieinado" in no time.

[artificer]

I have about two dozen or so that were my Great Grandfather's from the 1920's through 50's. Some are a little on the thin side for me (I'm about twice the size/mass he was) but there are some very nice bat wing and standard ones that I'll occasionally wear.

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[usonian]

This is the video I learned from, and the one I always refer people to; nothing to it! (But so much easier to understand than trying to read illustrated instructions!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJv4Qh7zR3E

[Tobus]

As with so many other things I've seen on this board, I decided to give it the old "college try" and wore a bow tie to work today. I'm still not convinced that I can pull it off (I feel like I belong in a barbershop quartet), but what the heck. Life's too short not to try new things.



I do hear that bow ties are coming back into style. The lady at Nordstrom's (where I bought this bow tie) told me that lots of people have been buying them lately. And I'm sure Ashton Kutcher's character on Two and a Half Men is fueling the fad.

[Peter Crowe]

I wore one of my patterned bow ties (self tie) for Thanksgiving with Tweed sports jacket and flannels, after viewing this thread. I have to say I like the look with a jacket because in just shirt sleeves I feel it reminds me of the henpecked character Ike from The Waltons, an American TV show I often watched during my childhood (1970's) in Scotland.

[tulloch]

Excellent job Tobus! You look great. Like kilts they are not for everyone and may never be fully 'in style.' Sets you apart. (btw: don't wear one when you commit a robbery!)

[be da veva]

There is a thread somewhere here that shows us how to make a bowtie from a regular necktie. But I don't remember who wrote it. I think it was two years ago... There was a printable pattern and easy instructions to follow.