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Do you still wear a necktie?

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I must have 50 or 60 neckties, and at least another dozen bow ties, hanging in my closet. I don't wear them as often as I used to - one of the effects of the pandemic has been to ease back on our school's dress code, so I'm more often in a polo shirt than a blazer - but I've collected a lot of ties over the years. I'm oddly reluctant to part with them - I have a lot of school, college, and university ties, as well as ones I've received as gifts from students. I could probably go for a few years without wearing the same one twice.
 
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Weddings and funerals only...
 
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I used to wear a tie everyday for work until 2016. It wasn't required, I did it just because. Now I wear quite relaxed business casual for work and very rarely wear a suit but if I do, absolutely always with a tie, I would feel odd if not. I've got countless ties in my closet I know I won't wear ever again.
 
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I'm embarrassed to admit it but I can't tie a tie. I've only really worn them for weddings and funerals. It's so bad that I will have my brother get me a really good looking knot and I'll never untie the tie. I'll re-use it as many times as I can.

I've tried dozens of times to learn how to tie a tie, watched videos, had people show me... I always end up standing in front of a mirror dressed up, time running out, trying and failing to make my tie look good. I end up a sweaty mess with all the stress.
 
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perks713 perks713
I'm embarrassed to admit it but I can't tie a tie. I've only really worn them for weddings and funerals. It's so bad that I will have my brother get me a really good looking knot and I'll never untie the tie. I'll re-use it as many times as I can.

I've tried dozens of times to learn how to tie a tie, watched videos, had people show me... I always end up standing in front of a mirror dressed up, time running out, trying and failing to make my tie look good. I end up a sweaty mess with all the stress.
When all else fails, get married. For some reason wives seem to be able to tie them.
 
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haha my wife used to tie a good tie, she lost the skill when she and I got together 😀
 
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Dibs on the tie!
Damn I was gonna call dibs! I'll take next!
I use to wear a tie everyday when I worked at the hospital, but since taking a medical role, I'm strictly scrubs. Outside of work I'll take any opportunity to wear a tie!
 
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I haven’t worn a necktie since the start of covid, the sort of frustrating thing is I’ve got about 36 Hermes ties and an equal number of their pocket squares but the added informality that the last couple of years has created in Australia has made them rather redundant. I probably need to sell them off given they’re just sitting and won’t be used again save for maybe 2 for weddings and funerals but its just so much work photographing and shipping them all.
 
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dsio dsio
I haven’t worn a necktie since the start of covid, the sort of frustrating thing is I’ve got about 36 Hermes ties and an equal number of their pocket squares but the added informality that the last couple of years has created in Australia has made them rather redundant. I probably need to sell them off given they’re just sitting and won’t be used again save for maybe 2 for weddings and funerals but its just so much work photographing and shipping them all.

It is entirely possible to become attached to a particular tie(s). Like the one I wore in our 50th anniversary portrait, and the one I wore at our 50th anniversary dinner. And also, one of my original bow ties from the early 1980s that a mischievous puppy destroyed. I can’t wear it, but I wouldn’t part with it.
 
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dsio dsio
I haven’t worn a necktie since the start of covid, the sort of frustrating thing is I’ve got about 36 Hermes ties and an equal number of their pocket squares but the added informality that the last couple of years has created in Australia has made them rather redundant. I probably need to sell them off given they’re just sitting and won’t be used again save for maybe 2 for weddings and funerals but its just so much work photographing and shipping them all.
Did you buy all those ties brand new? That's a shit ton of Hermes ties.
 
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Weddings and funerals, sadly it is mostly funerals these days 🙁
 
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Did you buy all those ties brand new? That's a shit ton of Hermes ties.
About half new while traveling as you get unique patterns and colors available in specific countries and about half that were vintage or gifts.

Canuck Canuck
It is entirely possible to become attached to a particular tie(s). Like the one I wore in our 50th anniversary portrait, and the one I wore at our 50th anniversary dinner. And also, one of my original bow ties from the early 1980s that a mischievous puppy destroyed. I can’t wear it, but I wouldn’t part with it.

There are some that are too special to part with, my favorite is my drinking tie which is a Smirnoff Vodka x Hermes tie, a member who was on the board of Smirnoff sent it to me years ago for helping him out with a purchase and I think it was pretty limited, its a blue pattern of Smirnoff Vodka bottles with the Smirnoff logo on the back.
 
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About half new while traveling as you get unique patterns and colors available in specific countries and about half that were vintage or gifts.
I'll need to start checking out the other Hermes stores when I travel for their ties.
 
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I'll need to start checking out the other Hermes stores when I travel for their ties.
The best stuff I’ve found in Singapore and Hong Kong but it’s also hard to find the longer ties I prefer there, every region does have its own though and that was definitely part of the fun having patterns that nobody locally has seen.

I actually even had @Bill Sohne help me smuggle some of the rare US exclusive ties out of NYC to here as I hadn’t been to the US for a while.
 
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Got married 7 years ago : last time I purchased some ties and last time I wore one 😉
I actually still like the look of it... in the magazines, but as stated those does not make the most comfortable clothes.
And on the not so glorious side, my suits fit a little bit smaller than they used to be... so 'casual Friday' is my daily look nowadays.
 
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flw flw
I must have 50 or 60 neckties, and at least another dozen bow ties, hanging in my closet. I don't wear them as often as I used to - one of the effects of the pandemic has been to ease back on our school's dress code, so I'm more often in a polo shirt than a blazer - but I've collected a lot of ties over the years. I'm oddly reluctant to part with them - I have a lot of school, college, and university ties, as well as ones I've received as gifts from students. I could probably go for a few years without wearing the same one twice.

I rarely wear a tie now / in the last year, but I always wear one with a suit. I Used to wear them a lot. I also hoard ties - I even kid myself some might come back in fashion… they got thin, they got fat….. they got thin again. I am not sure if the yellow, thin, leather square ender from the eighties will ever make it round the wheel of cool again (some say it never made it round the first time ;0)
 
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I converted from neckties to bow ties about a decade ago, but I still have at least 50 long ties (including about "informal" knits - those square-ended sock-like ones) and probably at least 3-4 times as many bow ties.

Long ties in my wardrobe are relegated to funerals, court, meetings with government (usually the IRS), and certain weddings.

For example, part of today's attire (it was a court day):
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I wear a bow tie each day I meet with anyone - so that can be 5-6 days a week.

It has gotten to the point where my office and colleagues expect me to wear a bow tie, and when I dress down or wear a long tie I usually draw comments.
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I still have to wear ties in court and meetings. I have some Hermes ties which I just grabbed out of my dad's wardrobe when I was 18 (like 20 years ago) without realising what they were - until someone at work commented!
 
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