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A colorful springtime tie by Arco Royal. I'm not for sure on the fabric...most likely rayon.
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Arco made some interesting ties...
A colorful springtime tie by Arco Royal. I'm not for sure on the fabric...most likely rayon.
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Arco made some interesting ties...
Definitely. So did Majestic and Andre.
And don't forget Hollyvogue...
I'd never do that. A ways back a local community theater asked if they could borrow some for a play set in the 1940s. I did donate several, but ones not in the greatest condition (holes and stains).
Many people don't replace what they have damaged or lost.
A happy Wembley...
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A very April showers bring May flowers tie.
Does it say what color suit to wear it with on the label?
For unofficial necktie Friday:
A beautiful Hollyvogue(!) De Luxe butterfly tie (made in CA, of course), c.mid-'50s, purple background with stenciled butterflies and leaves, decorated with glitter and what might be coralite (ground glass beads). Originally sold by Ray's Togs of Lynwood, a once-middle class area of L.A. which is now pretty much run-down...
Well, now that we can no longer post how thankful we are that Bin-Laden is out of the way...Let's get back to ties...
I just picked up what is one of the most avant-garde examples I've seen from the first half of the 1960s:
First of all, it's not a Rooster necktie, which is what I thought at first glance, but a square-bottomed Wembley! The motifs obviously have to do with fishing, what with the fisherman in action, a fish, and a couple of lures. However, for the life of me, the drawing at the bottom of the last photo surely seems like some type of flying scarecrow out of a Tim Burton movie. Very odd and delightful, feels like cotton. The inside tag says to wear with a brown or tan suit, and I'm placing this neat specimen at around 1965, just as Pop Art was making inroads in the fashion world. Thoughts?
Addendum: Now I'm wondering why there are shells included in the design, since the fellow fishing seems to be doing so in fresh water.[huh]
You are probably right about the date of the tie. The Wembley research that I have been doing gives me the date of 1959 in ads that actually start mentioning the what to wear with tag. You really need to get the book Ties that Blind. There are about 30 pages of ties that I could do without seeing but they even have that car tie that you posted a while back. I don't remember if yours had a tag but theirs mentions the name a date.
I hesitate to post this but I'll leave it up to your imagination. My latest acquisition and the first one of this type that I have ever seen:
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