Category: Stripes
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Last week in ties: Tuesday to Friday
Tuesday’s tie: a spotty effort from Pink. Odd, I thought it was from another tie-maker, but I found I was mistaken when I checked the label. More spots on Wednesday. This isn’t one I wear often, but I should. For Thursday, a striped Liberty tie. It’s one of their better modern efforts. And for Friday,…
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A week in ties
They call it Stormy Monday But Tuesday’s just as bad Wednesday’s worse and Thursday’s also sad The eagle flies on Friday And so on and so forth
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The Old School Tie
I’ve been saving the old school tie up. Why do I wear it? Why indeed? My schooldays were by no means the happiest days of my life, and I could not be said to be sympathetic, then or now, to many of the values the place stood for. However, some of the scholarship seems to…
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Pink stripes
I can’t say that I feel a thrill when I put this tie on. It’s perfectly inoffensive, but it doesn’t give me the immediate feeling of being right that some ties do. At the end of this project I may well rank ties, according to various criteria. There are those that give me an instant…
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Big in Japan
Knitted ties are apparently le dernier cri in Japan. Quite right too. This one, by Harvie and Hudson, doesn’t get enough outings
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Two days’ ties
On Monday I wore this, a linen tie by Hackett. When i bought it I was a little nervous, but now I like the wrinkled effect. And then today, this Liberty tie. Who can tell what bird there is here? I offer a detail below. is it real or mythical? A peacock, pheasant or bird…
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The meanings of stripes
With these striped ties, the wearer takes a risk. Is he wearing the insignia of the Old Custardians or the Royal Loamshire Yeomanry round his neck? Will an old and enraged club-man accost him and demand to know why he is wearing a tie only awarded to those elected to membership? Will someone remind him…