The Tie: A necessary useless item

(these are some of my top combinations of tie-shirt this month)

Clothing. Matching colours is something you learn in Argentina when you start dressing up on your own. Your mum would display some clothes on the bed for you to choose and if they sort of match in terms of colours you would be encouraged to wear them. On the contrary, if you happen to have just chosen:
- a yellow Scooby-Doo t-shirt,
- your blue stripped pants,
- the tasteless red ADIDAS shoes granny gave you as a present for your 3rd bday (VERY hard to match for a 3-year old kid, btw),
- the green fishing hat.
… your mum would be COMPLETELY entitled to whack the crap outta you, while yelling at you What the hell are you doing? Are you colour blind or simply style-less like the butcher?.

(Random: At what age did you start choosing the clothes you were going to wear during the day?)

Anyway, that’s how you learn. OK, I admit I am exaggerating, but I tell you: the butcher was a disaster fashion-wise.

As you grow older you become more self-conscious about the matching you do and there is this one decisive moment you will have to go through: Am I going to become this easy going person willing to go with the flow and surrender to the safe colours (totally valid and hassle free indeed); or am I going to take risks and have fun a little more with fashion. I think I just took the second option.

Last Saturday I put some things in order in my closet and I saw my tie rack with all of them hanging (I will not share how many, especially after the comments people made on my posting about the socks) and I decided they deserved a special blog.

THE TIE, special thing, nonsense piece of clothing we guys wrap around our necks and carefully neat up with a ridiculous knot. Useless by nature, it hangs over our chests and in fact most of the time it gets in the way (or into the cup of coffee, Thai noodles, and God forbids you if it gets into the shredding machine: messy!)

It gets us in trouble in the morning and makes us think in a moment where all we want to do is go back to bed. These questions torment us VERY early in the morning and if you do not answer them right you will dreadfully get stuck with the wrong tie for at least 9 hours of your day!!.

1. How long should it be? Just touch the belt; longer than that and get to the upper part of the crotch; or kindergarten style and we let it hang only up to the belly bottom? And how wide should it be?
2. Plain on plad? Plad on plain? Dotted on stripes? Stripes on stripes? Thick stripes or thin stripes? Should it match the shirt or the pair of pants (or both)?
3. What knot should I wear? Ascott? Classic Windsor? Double Windsor? Prince Albert? Small Knot? Four-in-hand? AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!! Make It stop!!

Back in time I got intrigued by the history of the tie and I found it quite interesting by the way. For those who are keen on reading-knowig more about this all-time-classic piece of male clothing please Click here and & have fun! I LOVE THIS SITE! (It even has videos on how to make the different knots)

(FYI, girls out there: there are few things that could be sexier than having your girl making your knot in the morning for you. Complete turn on and might make you be late for work, IF YOU ALL KNOW WHAT I MEAN. That is all I can say! Guys back me up in this one...)