Bow Ties

[Vampyre Master]

wow

now that's a bow tie!!

VM

 

[Nick D]

Just made these two, one from Italian silk (stripes) and one from vintage silk.

 

[Vampyre Master]

Just made these two, one from Italian silk (stripes) and one from vintage silk.

how do you make them?
VM

 

[Espee]

Add to "Forsyth of Canada" point-ends at Burlington:
Solids-- red, black, purple, and bright orange.
Also maroon with fine swirls of orange (that one may get me, or vice-versa.)

 

[Dinerman]

 

[Edward]

Just made these two, one from Italian silk (stripes) and one from vintage silk.

Those are exquisite! Do you take commissions?

 

[Nick D]

Those are exquisite! Do you take commissions?

Thanks, Edward! I just cut out the rest of the silk, which yielded two more striped bows and two more of the burgundy ones (and one necktie of each). I haven't decided a price yet, but PM me if you're interested.

 

[DOGSBODY]

Hi, the bow tie is something that I have wanted to do for years , and as a draughtsman I feel that it would fit in quite well , and not dangle in my coffee cup , but does one start the trend wearing a suit or will it work with my leather A2 jacket , a nice bright red spotted one , that's what I long for .

 

[Dinerman]

You see bow ties a lot in old ads and photos in a casual context. Out in the country for the weekend. Paired with tweed or corduroy. Contexts in which a long tie would flap around or dangle or in some other way be in the way of what you're doing. I see no problem with a bow tie and a leather jacket. I know it was done "back in the day".

 

[Edward]

I've paired a bow tie with my Aero Thirties Halfbelt on many occasions. Works really well with the 'leather jacket as replacement for suit jacket" Howard Hughes look too, IMO.

 

[BR Gordon]

The bow tie is really casual wear, other than black tie. I believe that it dresses down a suit, but also dresses up something like an A2. I would wear it with most casual jackets.

 

[herringbonekid]

Hi, the bow tie is something that I have wanted to do for years , and as a draughtsman I feel that it would fit in quite well , and not dangle in my coffee cup , but does one start the trend wearing a suit or will it work with my leather A2 jacket , a nice bright red spotted one , that's what I long for .

the bow tie with a fair ilse sweater is a classic inter war years English office look; perfect for the draughtsman / architect / code breaker.
pair it with some round glasses for the geeky-but-intense look.

 

[Vampyre Master]

Hi, the bow tie is something that I have wanted to do for years , and as a draughtsman I feel that it would fit in quite well , and not dangle in my coffee cup , but does one start the trend wearing a suit or will it work with my leather A2 jacket , a nice bright red spotted one , that's what I long for .

hi there I wear mine with an old leather and yes just bought this cardigan.

VM

 

[Edward]

The bow tie is really casual wear, other than black tie. I believe that it dresses down a suit, but also dresses up something like an A2. I would wear it with most casual jackets.

Probably technically speaking, but (I suppose because black tie in the only time most people wear one nowadays) people I encounter nowadays seem to think of them as impossibly formal, posh, exotic. Interestingly, I get the same reaction to cravats when I wear them out (which would tend to support the theory that it's a rarity thing that gives it that air to people). I tend to wear a bow regularly in the office, and more often than not to graduation ceremonies. Funny, a few years ago I didn't care for them outside of evening wear, but now I wear them almost as often as a four in hand. Traditionally, of course, they were most commonly the preserve of architects, draftsmen, medical doctors, and anyone else or whom keeping their neckwear out of their work was desirable... The people I still see them on occasionally are mostly academics -some of them even old enough not to be emulating the good Professor Jones....

hi there I wear mine with an old leather and yes just bought this cardigan.

Nice jacket - any more information? Looks not unlike a Highwayman. Zip sleeves?

VM

I like this. I often wear a bow with a cardy in the Winter, and either an Irvin, a B3 or a B15C as outerwear. Are those buttons metallic, or is that just the light? They almost look like they have been cast to look like mediaeval coins?

 

[Two Types]

Traditionally, of course, they were most commonly the preserve of architects, draftsmen, medical doctors, and anyone else or whom keeping their neckwear out of their work was desirable...

If British films are anything to go by, I'd say that bow ties were anything but the preserve of the professional classes. Instead, they were widely associated with 'wide boys' and all manner of disreputable types.....

Gambler (The Titfield Thunderbolt)

Workshy lowlife (Major Barbara)

Bookie (Passport to Pimlico)

Corrupt jockey (Brothers in law)

Assassin (The Green Man)

Black Marketeer (Hue & Cry)

Proponent of 'One upmanship' (School for Scoundrels)

Tax evading philanderer (Too Many Crooks)

 

[Matt Crunk]

I'd never wear a clip-on regular tie, but seems to me that'd be the only way to go with a bow tie.

 

[skyvue]

I'd never wear a clip-on regular tie, but seems to me that'd be the only way to go with a bow tie.

Why do you say that?

 

[Two Types]

and here are some more dodgy bow tie wearers:

Dodgy Bookie (Belles of St Trinians)

Self centred poet (Lucky Jim)

Man about to perpetrate a scam (School for Scoundrels)

 

[Two Types]

and a few more:

Criminal (Private's Progress)

Gangster (Brighton Rock)

Escaped Convict (Convict 99)

Criminal (The Ladykillers)

 

[BR Gordon]

I'd never wear a clip-on regular tie, but seems to me that'd be the only way to go with a bow tie.

Personally, I can't imagine even owning a clip-on tie of any type.