what's wrong with this tie?

[dr greg]

My good wife says this tie is awful and totally uncomplementary, I say it's a classic Michelson silk number that can handle a Full Windsor very well, and suits this outfit perfectly...any comments?

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

Works for me Greg - and I'm fussy about my ties!

Mind you, I do have a couple of shockers - and some that only I could love.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Ditto the last remark...although maybe your wife doesn't like the idea of a striped tie with a pin-striped suit. I know I have a couple of ties that to me just don't look right with pin-stripes.

 

[dr greg]

pin up

Ditto the last remark...although maybe your wife doesn't like the idea of a striped tie with a pin-striped suit. I know I have a couple of ties that to me just don't look right with pin-stripes.

Well I thought a classic style of tie like this one would be fine with pin stripes as it could well be some old school number...no her objection is more prosaic...it apparently 'makes you look old'.

 

[BellyTank]

Personally, I think it looks a bit "bulky".
The knot may be too big for you and your collar- but I'm not a fan of fat knots.
Can't really comment on the "...makes you look old" comment, though.

It goes with the bass, though.


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[Torpedo]

It is commonly said you can wear a tie with the same kind of pattern as your suit if the stripes or shapes forming it are more than twice the width of those in the suit. This is correct here.

Also, one colour (blue) matches the suit's main colour and the other (red) complements it, so everything seem to be in order there, too.

Colours are OK to me. This said, I feel a less bulky knot would look better.

Regards!

 

[memphislawyer]

Try a four-in-hand knot and see if that does not dimple better for you.

A chalk stripe would look better with that tie. To my eye, there are too many stripes in your suit and therefore, the striping on your tie does not pop. Try a paisley or foulard with that suit. But a chalkstripe would have fewer and fainter 'lines' if you will. Also, I find that women do not prefer regimental or striped ties as much as those with patterns and textures.

 

[Edward]

My good wife says this tie is awful and totally uncomplementary, I say it's a classic Michelson silk number that can handle a Full Windsor very well, and suits this outfit perfectly...any comments?

I'd tray a smaller knot also, but that's to personal taste. The tie is similar to one of the old British regimental ties (ones of the Guards? I'm sure I've seen a similarly coloured / patterned tie on the Princes), maybe your wife associates that sort of tie with the old-boy veterans? [huh]

FWIW, I like it - I think the combination of re and navy ties the whole look together - a bridging point between the navy suit and the red bass.

 

[Paisley]

Maybe the striped tie, striped suit and striped shirt just make for too many stripes.

 

[JohnnyGringo]

Smaller knot maybe, but overall I think it looks good. That Bass rocks, by the way!

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

I am old ...

I am old, so I've got no problem with a tie that makes me look that way. PM me and I'll send your wife the address where she can ship the tie.

 

[Widebrim]

Maybe the striped tie, striped suit and striped shirt just make for too many stripes.

I would agree with Paisley; try a solid-colored shirt. I also recommend, as others have stated, a smaller knot.

 

[Geesie]

Smaller knot, definitely. The color and the strip of the tie are bold enough, the giant knot makes it look like the rest of your outfit is hiding behind the tie.

 

[dr greg]

the duke

Smaller knot, definitely. The color and the strip of the tie are bold enough, the giant knot makes it look like the rest of your outfit is hiding behind the tie.

It is big, but I thought a full windsor would do justice to the boldness of it, and be in proportion to the width, so many ties seem to scrunch up when you do a windsor with them..the shirt was a lightly striped T M Lewin so I thought it all went together in several ways, also we were playing to a bunch of bankers and lawyers and I felt it necessary to try and be better dressed than most of them...and I was, by a long shot. Some had trainers on with their beige suits...dear o dear.
I doubt whether any of them would have recognised the authentic "Motto" on the bass either.....

 

[Benny Holiday]

It's a chick thing mate. I've always been into mid-late 40s bold ties and my wife loves them. Cookie presented me with a great blue diagonal striped 30s number last year when MK was out in Australia and inspired by it I purchased red and brown 30s ties online not long afterwards. The Missus doesn't dig the stripes at all!

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

we were playing to a bunch of bankers and lawyers

You have sterling taste in hats, ties ...and audiences Dr G.

Well...maybe not so much the bankers...

 

[BellyTank]

Death or Glory?

I doubt whether any of them would have recognised the authentic "Motto" on the bass either.....

Clash/Lancers


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[dr greg]

ride boldly ride

Clash/Lancers


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lancers old chap, an original brass one too, I'm too old to have been into the Clash..London Calling was OK though I suppose.

 

[BellyTank]

The Clash had a song; "Death or Glory".

Oh dear- you must be really old...


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[Edward]

"Now every cheap hood makes a bargain with the world / and ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl..."

I always think 'Clash' before 'Lancers'..... 'Clash', and Eddie in Rocky Horror.... lol