Show us your TIES

[jamespowers]

Another Sear’s Pilgrim Cravats necktie, dating again from the middle 1940s, like the fossils tie of a few days ago. I bought this in the same lot of ties, so I guess they were bought by the same fellow and never worn. A strange array of brown splotches and yellow lines, which seems a bit like a mad town planning map, a warped and twisted gridiron, with plots of land for building or open space, and roads in between.

Looks kind of like reptile(crocodile skin). I have a brown suit that I could wear that with.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

This seller has been selling bundle after bundle of these 1930s deadstock, very low end, ties. Note they are of the self-tip variety. He must have sold 30-40 bundles over the past few years. 11 bundles ended today, or yesterday, I don't recall.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIntage-High-Grate-Cravats-NeckTies-Neck-Ties-Pack-Of-6-Original-Tags-/160900996808?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&nma=true&si=N2dB0N9TBKGjYol9aWM%2FBM8ZO2c%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

[Quigley Brown]

A flock(?) of vintage Roosters I got at a yard sale today...

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[Baron Kurtz]

Love the trains, and the advertising one!

 

[Widebrim]

^^^Rooster put out some really cool ties...

 

[Widebrim]

This seller has been selling bundle after bundle of these 1930s deadstock, very low end, ties. Note they are of the self-tip variety. He must have sold 30-40 bundles over the past few years. 11 bundles ended today, or yesterday, I don't recall.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIntage-High-Grate-Cravats-NeckTies-Neck-Ties-Pack-Of-6-Original-Tags-/160900996808?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&nma=true&si=N2dB0N9TBKGjYol9aWM%2FBM8ZO2c%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

I would have bid on 'em...

 

[Baron Kurtz]

He will undoubtedly have another massive number of necktie bundle auctions up in the next few weeks!

bk

 

[jamespowers]

This seller has been selling bundle after bundle of these 1930s deadstock, very low end, ties. Note they are of the self-tip variety. He must have sold 30-40 bundles over the past few years. 11 bundles ended today, or yesterday, I don't recall.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIntage-High-Grate-Cravats-NeckTies-Neck-Ties-Pack-Of-6-Original-Tags-/160900996808?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&nma=true&si=N2dB0N9TBKGjYol9aWM%2FBM8ZO2c%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

He thinks they are high end.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Yes, it's like "democratic" or "people's" when used in Country names - when a tie brand pushes themselves as "High Grade Cravats", as here, one knows they are protesting a little too much.

bk

 

[Two Types]

I know there can be great debate over the correct length for a tie. This is a British clothing advert from 1935 that seems to suggest that very short is the way to wear one:

 

[jamespowers]

Yes, it's like "democratic" or "people's" when used in Country names - when a tie brand pushes themselves as "High Grade Cravats", as here, one knows they are protesting a little too much.

bk

:rofl:

 

[jamespowers]

I know there can be great debate over the correct length for a tie. This is a British clothing advert from 1935 that seems to suggest that very short is the way to wear one:

Wow! Laurel and Hardy had it right then.

 

[Widebrim]

Yes, it's like "democratic" or "people's" when used in Country names - when a tie brand pushes themselves as "High Grade Cravats", as here, one knows they are protesting a little too much.

bk

Actually it would be interesting to see something like the People's Democratic Republic of the Congo tie line...

 

[Chowderhouse]

Actually it would be interesting to see something like the People's Democratic Republic of the Congo tie line...

In the golden era, there was a Palm Beach Cloth imitator called Congo Cloth: its logo was an African tribesman with googly eyes and huge red lips.

 

[jamespowers]

Actually it would be interesting to see something like the People's Democratic Republic of the Congo tie line...

There are some oxymorons or some such thing in there.

 

[jamespowers]

In the golden era, there was a Palm Beach Cloth imitator called Congo Cloth: its logo was an African tribesman with googly eyes and huge red lips.

I have actually seen those ads.

 

[Chowderhouse]

I have actually seen those ads.

They went head-to-head with Palm Beach Cloth. Ads in Esquire magazine, the whole nine yards. I've got a tie with the label and logo. I'll have to post a photo sometime.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

If I can find it, I think I might have one like that.

Actually it would be interesting to see something like the People's Democratic Republic of the Congo tie line...

Yes, Congo Cloth, that's the stuff. Another uncrushable one to add to the list. I definitely have one of these that I'll dig out. The label is awfully racist, though. JP, is this fine for FLounge?

They went head-to-head with Palm Beach Cloth. Ads in Esquire magazine, the whole nine yards. I've got a tie with the label and logo. I'll have to post a photo sometime.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Another autumnal tie. No labels, but with a hand scrawled "hand painted by …" on the liner of the fat end. Can't read the artist name.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

An egregious example of the kind of casual racism of the era.