How to Actually Measure for Bow Tie
I was stood at the bar at my friend’s brother’s wedding tying myself a drink when some guy I’d known for roughly four minutes leaned across and said, entirely unprompted,…
How Tie Fit Is Supposed to Work
Helped a kid finish tying his tie last Tuesday while he stood in our stockroom. He was watching a tutorial on his phone, balanced against a pile of returns, attempting…
The Honest Guide to Tie Silk Neckerchief
People take an irrational amount of pride in how they tie a neckerchief, more than it deserves, certainly. It’s just a small circle of silk worn under your chin and…
A Straightforward Guide to Tie Fit
Someone left rude comments on one of my articles saying only ties under two and a half inches wide aren’t “trying too hard,” and then separately my uncle insisted my…
The Waistcoat Sizing Guide I Wish Someone Had Given Me
By thirty seconds I mean the thirty seconds you spend staring helplessly at racks in a hire shop or the thirty seconds it takes someone on the phone at said…
Are Ties Actually Making a Comeback?
My dad wore a tie to the pub once. Not a night out, not a wedding, just a Sunday roast at the local because he’d come straight from something at…
What Suit Jacket Really Means
I once spent forty minutes in a changing room in Moorgate, alone, doing a sort of slow squat in front of a mirror, trying to work out whether a jacket…
How Tie Sizing Actually Works
So which bit of “how to size a tie” are you actually asking me about, because there’s about three different questions hiding in that one sentence and most blokes only…
What Nobody Explains About Tie Sizing
People get weirdly tribal about tie sizing. I’ve seen a bloke at a wedding nearly start a row over whether a tie should be a “skinny” or a “standard” width,…
What Tie Neckerchief Really Means
I found a genuine, actual silk neckerchief in a charity shop in Sherwood for two quid, the kind with a proper rolled hem, and I stood in the shop doorway…