Thin ties...any thoughts?

[MrBern]

actually, this blondie album was out in `78

 

[Ecuador Jim]

I agree...

I like the variety that thin ties offer to any wardrobe.

I like it. I am expanding my appreciation of the different looks that are around. There is a place for fat ties and skinny ties.
I recently picked up a couple of thinner than usual ties. My wife likes 'em and they go with the narrower brim hats I own.

As an aside, Angelina could use a pastrami sandwich.

...perhaps another "grab and feed" mission?

lol lol lol

 

[Jovan]

Thin ties? I love 'em.

 

[jamespowers]

More power to people who like thin ties. All I know is that every time I list a bunch on eBay, I get like 25 cents each. :eusa_doh: I might as well use them to light my fireplace for that piddly amount.

 

[Jovan]

Or... give them to me.

 

[jamespowers]

Or... give them to me.

Why did I figure you would say that? lol lol lol

 

[jamespowers]

...hate them, but seeing them puts me in a conundrum: hurl or kill?

Ok, I am sending you a few dozen then.

 

[Jovan]

You'd rather send a few dozen to one who doesn't even like them? For shame!

 

[jamespowers]

You'd rather send a few dozen to one who doesn't even like them? For shame!

I tend to like adverse reactions. Just ask Forgotten Man about the hat I sent him (loaded with moth holes )

 

[Mid-fogey]

Been there...

Ok, I am sending you a few dozen then.

...done that.

God help me.

 

[Bill Taylor]

I don't care much for thin ties. Seems like I remember they came into style sometime in the late 50's, along with narrow lapels and 3 button coats (middle button only buttoned, although some buttoned the top two buttons if there was no vest). I never thought thin ties looked all that good with vested suits, it showed too much shirt. I think that lasted through a good part of the 60's until the style became huge wide ties and lapels, an awful men's style period.

I always had trouble getting the knot to look good on a thin tie, especially with a button down shirt collar. In my opinion, the better looking thin ties were narrow stripes, solid or silk rep. For more relaxed occasions, thin knit ties were sort of neat. Unfortunately, when they went out of style, I got rid of all my thin ties I think. Probably not a smart move.

I suspect current styles of somewhat wider ties and lapels may have to do with men now generally being bigger and maybe fatter than in earlier periods. (a problem I don't have - When I graduated from high school in 1948-49 at 16, I was 6'1"" and weighed 149 pounds). This morning I weighed 146 pounds, so not much changed, although I may have lost a half inch in height. Age will do that to you grrr*^$#* (that's supposed to be cussin")

 

[tandmark]

Hi,

Some of my ties are thin ones, mostly Rooster and Wembley. Great patterns! They do require a different sort of tie clip than wider ties do. Or maybe a stickpin.

(Actually, returning to the first post for this thread, I think the best accessory for a thin tie might well be Angelique Jolie on one's arm.)

Some outfits just work with thin ties, and to my eye, not all of them are Rat Pack or Blues Brothers costumes.

Cheers,
Mark

 

[Feraud]

They do require a different sort of tie clip than wider ties do. Or maybe a stickpin.

You can use a shorter tie clip.

 

[_tone]

skinny ties look great with the right suit. generally, to my untrained eye, things of a particular vintage look better together, so a suit from the 50's looks better with the accessories that come from the same general era.

 

[Feraud]

Has anyone seen any thin ties sold retail that are not black?
Are there patterns or embroidered examples out there?

I would like to see stuff like this being offered to the public.

 

[CharlestonBows]

It's the strangest thing, these narrow ties. I'm not a huge fan, personally, but we always have a few on hand in the shop to round out the selection. I've observed a fairly seismic jump (for such a small sub-category!) in the popularity of them (along with tie bars) among the college crowd around Charleston -- thanks, quite explicitly, to Mad Men. So I took the liberty of re-naming them the Madison Ave. tie lol .

Most of the college guys are of smaller build anyways, and usually are without a jacket, so the tie works, in a hipster sort of way.

If you're bigger than a size 44 (and that's pushing it) in the shoulders, beware -- it starts to look a little, well, bad.

 

[Senator Jack]

If you're bigger than a size 44 (and that's pushing it) in the shoulders, beware -- it starts to look a little, well, bad.

Except for Tony in Tarzana or anyone with his sense of style.

 

[thunderw21]

I'm not a thin tie fan but these were too cool to pass up.

 

[cowboy76]

hmmmm,......skinny ties,....yeah, not so much!

 

[A.R. McVintage]

Skinny ties, from the fifties:

Artists and Models, 1955:

North by Northwest, 1959:

*make sure you tell Messrs Martin and Grant what a coupla jerks they look in their thin ties, cowboy76.