Show us your TIES

[jamespowers]

I have a few NRA ties that are self tipped (the tie fabric cut too long and folded back to form the tipping), as well, which is super weird. It's a feature I had always associated with the 1960s, until I found a big bag of them, obviously very old, and several with NRA labels.

Yes, they did that because the material to make the tie was usually in more abundance than material to tip a tie---cheaper too.

 

[Quigley Brown]

Appropriate seasonal colors on this Cutter Cravat...

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[jamespowers]

Appropriate seasonal colors on this Cutter Cravat...

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Nice geometry there.

 

[Quigley Brown]

Nice geometry there.

I have a red and cream version, too, but this one is much bolder.

 

[Widebrim]

Appropriate seasonal colors on this Cutter Cravat...

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Cutter had some solid ties...

 

[Widebrim]

I just bought a lot of vintage ties at a rummage sale for a steal. Vintage women's clothes I can date with ease, but these ties puzzle me just a bit more.

You've got some Bold Look (c. '45-'52) ties in there, along with a couple which might be of an earlier date.

 

[jwhitfield71]

I found this simple Towncraft Pennys tie in some of my grandfather's old stuff. I'm not sure if it was his, or possibly my great-grandfather's tie. Either way, I loved the pattern - not one you'd expect to see from the 60's or 70s (guessing on the age, as I have no real way to find out).

 

[Nick D]

I have a few NRA ties that are self tipped (the tie fabric cut too long and folded back to form the tipping), as well, which is super weird. It's a feature I had always associated with the 1960s, until I found a big bag of them, obviously very old, and several with NRA labels.

There's a 1930s McCalls sewing pattern that has a self-tipped tie. It's on the straight of the grain, too.

 

[Widebrim]

I found this simple Towncraft Pennys tie in some of my grandfather's old stuff. I'm not sure if it was his, or possibly my great-grandfather's tie. Either way, I loved the pattern - not one you'd expect to see from the 60's or 70s (guessing on the age, as I have no real way to find out).

Yes, that is a good pattern, especially for its time period.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I don't know there's any evidence for that assertion. I'd say they did it because it was easier and quicker to self tip. (interestingly, the fat end tends to be tipped with lining silk, or in some cases unlined, but the thin ends self tipped. In the 60s, of course, both ends were self-tipped.)

Really, I can't imagine a situation where plain white China silk was a rarity.

Yes, they did that because the material to make the tie was usually in more abundance than material to tip a tie---cheaper too.

 

[herringbonekid]

1920s deadstock:

 

[Two Types]

HBK: What is the width of the tie?

(lovely, vibrant colours, by the way)

 

[herringbonekid]

TT, two and a half inches at widest and very short at 44".

 

[Feraud]

A beautiful tie! I love how the finished edge looks so distinct.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

It's knitted is it, herring?

Here's one of those pesky NRA labelled ties. Silk tipped. The label says Johnnie Walker's and is hard to read … but the shape of the descender in the first number makes me think it's a "7", meaning this tie costed $7.95.

 

[herringbonekid]

It's knitted is it, herring?

i wouldn't know the difference between crochet and knit. the yarn is more silky in feel and lighter weight than some of my other flat-end horizontal-striped 20s-30s ties. this is the first diagonal striped knit tie i've bought.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

You know what I mean. Crother or knit rather than conventionally woven.

The hem gives it away … I can't remember the term for that type of hem finishing in knitting. Back-knit or something like that. I'd have to ask my mother.

 

[herringbonekid]

You know what I mean. Crother or knit rather than conventionally woven.

oh, yes knit... i thought that was obvious from the photos.

Montgomery Ward 1922 call this tie a 'round end style' in 'fiber silk' but don't mention what the edge finish is called.

 

[jamespowers]

I don't know there's any evidence for that assertion. I'd say they did it because it was easier and quicker to self tip. (interestingly, the fat end tends to be tipped with lining silk, or in some cases unlined, but the thin ends self tipped. In the 60s, of course, both ends were self-tipped.)

Really, I can't imagine a situation where plain white China silk was a rarity.

Easier and quicker is cheaper.
Maybe in The Depression they cut corners in just as many ways as they did during the war.

 

[jamespowers]

It's knitted is it, herring?

Here's one of those pesky NRA labelled ties. Silk tipped. The label says Johnnie Walker's and is hard to read … but the shape of the descender in the first number makes me think it's a "7", meaning this tie costed $7.95.

Wow! $7.95 in those days was a LOT of money for a tie. It had better have been lined.