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Do you know how to tie a tie?

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I tied it once and just loosened it and hung it up. Haven't had to re-tie it in a couple of years. Don't wear it much though.
 
I have to wear a tie four or five days a week. Total bullshit considering how little I get paid. But 99% of the time I wear either a four-in-hand or a half-windsor, and occasionally a full windsor.
 
Richard Cranium said:
It's nothing that special. It has a conservative diamond-shaped pattern, and it alternated up and down from bright to dark blue. Nothing weird, IMO. I guess it's the bright blue. The last interview I did, the first thing the guys asked me was, what's the story behind that tie? So I asked him later what's the deal with everyone asking about the tie, and he basically said, look around you. Don't you think it looks different than every other applicant's tie? It's kind of bold don't you think? I guess in my profession, we've all been recommended to wear things that don't stand out. Pretty much everyone wears a black or charcoal grey suit.
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Haha, I just finished interviews as well. There's a reason why it's called "the uniform." The only specialty I can think of where bright ties might work would be pediatrics. Maybe psychiatry. Definitely not surgery.
 
Ties are awesome. I am not required to wear a tie for my job, so I just do it when I feel like it (which is 3+ days a week). Also, fancier knots (full Windsor etc.) are not necessarily the best in many situations -- with a normal tie, you need a very wide collar spread, with a normal collar you need a very thin tie, and they look overly pretentious. I usually wear a FIH (which is great when executed well), or a Victoria/Prince Albert if I want to be a bit fancier or eat an inch or two off a longer tie. Also, a "proper" tie knot should have a dimple -- which you can see in the OP but not in the instructional video someone linked to. The point of the dimple is that it grabs the viewer's attention and then directs it back to the wearer's face (since the teardrop shape of the dimple points up to your face with its sharp end).
 
I used to not be able to tie a necktie, but with my current workplace it is required so I've learned how to do it. And it's double windsor knot.
 
I have to relearn every time I go for an interview. Ive been at my job for 2 years now so its been a long while. Personally I don't like ties. They flop around, and are a bit of a choking hazard. I usually pin them to my shirt if I'm wearing one.
 
Ever since I took my new job last September, three or four days a week!

I loaded this up on my laptop and practiced, practiced, practiced:

http://www.totieatie.com/halfWindsor.asp

Half-windsor is my favorite. It's actually pretty easy once you learn it, and it works well for my extra-tall frame. The full Windsor just eats up too much of the tie to look good on me. Though I do tie a much tighter knot nowadays than I did when I was starting.
 
no, but my girlfirend does =/ + =(


edit: YES! I officially have 1 post per day! Acheivement for no life unlocked! :lol
 
My friend taught me this pretty sweet method to tie a tie without having to put it on or anything. The knot comes out perfect and it always has a dimple :)
 
Just the Windsor knot (I didn't know what it was called until this topic). I had to learn how to tie ties when I was little, back when I used to wear suits to church.
 
I always rock the DOUBLE windsor. It's easy to fuck up the length of the DOUBLE windsor though.
 
pretty much wear a tie every day for work, my boss likes that. sort of an unwritten management rule. aside from the brutal two/three weeks of winter, like right now, when im wearing sweaters and jeans.

i like the single-knot, aka the school-boy knot, aka the first one posted in the thread.
 
Yup, have to wear one to work every day; half Windsor, I think. Don't need a mirror or anything, can do it in just a few seconds.

I don't mind wearing ties at all. Once it's on, I basically forget it's there. Most people I've met that don't like wearing ties usually really have a problem with their shirt collar being too tight; that's the really restrictive part, not the tie itself.

Only time it ever bothers me at all is about 1 out of every 4 times that I shave or so (I have a beard, so I just do my lower neck and cheeks once or twice a week) and my collar rubs against the newly-bare area and give me razor burn.
 
I rock the Pratt knot when I feel like wearing a tie to work.

Took a while though. My now-uncle taught me a few years ago (after scoffing - yes, scoffing - at my catholic school classic knot), but not having to wear ties in college I didn't bother really learning it. He called it a "Minneapolis" knot, I guess after the hometown of some cat named Shelby who made it famous. Getting from Minneapolis to Pratt so I could find it online to relearn was a pain!
 
I couldn't tell you how to tie a tie, but if you gave me one I could put it on. Years of putting on a tie every day for school are burned into my sub-concious.
 
I used to know it perfectly a few years ago, but I haven't worn a tie in so long it'd probably take me a little bit to remember/re-learn. Windsor all the way though!
 
I use four in hand, half windsor and windsor depending on the event, suit and the tie. The knot does suprisingly lot.
 
I hardly ever wear a tie, but I can tie most of the normal ones. I really don't see what the big deal is, it's not that hard.

I can even tie a bowtie, now that was a pain in the ass to learn.
 
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