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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHave you ever worn a tie "ironically"?
This seems to be a new fashion trend at my job, where it's the only circumstances where anyone would wear a tie. My friend who is in a band usually does it when they're playing too. He wears a tie, along with a T-shirt and significantly ripped jeans.
This is probably the only circumstance in which I would wear a tie. However in order to do so I would have to both: 1-Own a tie and 2-know how to tie one.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Ironically or any other way.
Doc Holliday
(719 posts)I won't wear a tie.
The last time I was in a suit, I was walking my daughter down the aisle as "Color My World" played through the sound system. That three years ago. I'm just not a suit-and-tie person, and never wanted to be...which has probably held me back in life to some degree.
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(82,333 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)I was still able to get a nice knot, but then I had trouble with MY OWN FUCKING TIE!
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)I'd have to kick my own ass. Ties are for 1) getting a job; 2) getting married; and 3) getting buried. Otherwise, they're just useless decoration, whether worn seriously or ironically.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Alexander
(15,318 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I know how to tie a tie.
But I always tied my ties with a full windsor and it was perfectly symmetrical and correctly proportioned. I was one sharp tie tier.
So we recently went out to eat at a fancy restaurant to celebrate our friends' anniversary and the place was definitely a tie kind of place so I whipped out my tie tying skills and got dressed and was looking good and feeling good and off we went.
And I get to the place and look around and somewhere in the last 35 years or so it seems to have become fashionable to tie ties in all these half-assed, asymmetrical, sloppy looking knots! Grown men walking around with their ties tied like they got their drunken, arthritic grandmothers to do it for them! WTF?
Damn hippies.
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)I go to one now where you will never see anyone wearing a tie unless they are doing this. The most "dressed up" people will be the ones wearing a polo shirt instead of a T-shirt or jeans without holes in them, and the pastoral staff do not always fit in this category.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)(not to be bragging) and was fascinated when one of the very dignified young men came in wearing a seriously flashy tie.
We went shopping at the small factory town where the plant is, and saw some really wild ties for about $10. I bought one for my daughter featuring a pattern of tiny flourescent pink pigs arranged in stripes on a lavender background. The expensive ties featured metallic threads and rhinestones!