Show us your TIES

[jamespowers]

A few nice ones I scored recently in Vancouver, Washington. Some were still in a plastic pack and appeared to be deadstock. I WORE THEM.

Is that last tie pleated? If it is, I'll take it if you don't want it.

 

[Dr Doran]

No pleats and no, I don't NOT want it. (That means I DO want it.)
And -- once again - - it was about $5. [insert or imagine gloat.] Actually, a bit more: it was in a plastic-covered packet with 2 more ties. Total cost was about 17 bucks. For all three. Unworn. [insert or imagine horrible gloat.]

 

[AlanC]

fftopic:

I go my (flawless) olive Burberry trenchcoat on Ebay for about $70.00. Still looking for a tan.

A made in England Burberry or Aquascutum (I'd be satisfied with either) is one of those finds that has eluded me thus far. I've come very close, but so far no cigar. It's one of those 'grail' thrift finds for me.

 

[Patrick Murtha]

A made in England Burberry or Aquascutum (I'd be satisfied with either) is one of those finds that has eluded me thus far. I've come very close, but so far no cigar. It's one of those 'grail' thrift finds for me.

I'd love to have an Aquascutum too (I'm greedy). I see few of those on Ebay, more Burberrys, a lot seem to go in the $200-$400 range.

 

[Forgotten Man]

The camo liner on FM's tie is something different.

Yeah, that's why I like it... it's somethin' different and not very common.

The great thing about it is that it's original!

A very unique and mostly unknown thing about neck ties of the Home Front of WWII.

 

[Dr Doran]

Do you all have Dyer and Spark's book Fit To Be Tied: Vintage Neckties of the Forties and Early Fifties? I found it marvelous.

 

[jamespowers]

No pleats and no, I don't NOT want it. (That means I DO want it.)
And -- once again - - it was about $5. [insert or imagine gloat.] Actually, a bit more: it was in a plastic-covered packet with 2 more ties. Total cost was about 17 bucks. For all three. Unworn. [insert or imagine horrible gloat.]

Quite a good deal. I'll have to post pictures of the matching ties my son and I got.
Oh wait, here they are:

Matching 30's Smoothie Horsey ties for $20.

 

[Feraud]

Ah horses! My favorite motif for ties and accessories. :eusa_clap

 

[jamespowers]

Do you all have Dyer and Spark's book Fit To Be Tied: Vintage Neckties of the Forties and Early Fifties? I found it marvelous.

I saw that at the last Vintage Expo. I should have bought it just for the nudie ties.

 

[Dr Doran]

I saw that at the last Vintage Expo. I should have bought it just for the nudie ties.

I was at the Expo on Geary on Sunday. I guess you were there Saturday. I bought the book from the woman with all the ties including nudies. Those were expensive.

 

[jamespowers]

Ah horses! My favorite motif for ties and accessories. :eusa_clap

Unbelievably, they came brand new with the cardboard sleeve still on it.
I wish I could find another duplicate of a stirrup Gucci tie I had way back when. My father took it with him as it were. He was always borrowing it and getting food stains on it anyway. It was dry cleaned out anyway.

 

[jamespowers]

I was at the Expo on Geary on Sunday. I guess you were there Saturday. I bought the book from the woman with all the ties including nudies. Those were expensive.

Darn! You should have been there Saturday. I bought all the good stuff then.
That is the book I was thinking of then. Those ties were really expensive but she gave my son a tie for free. Cutness has its priviledges. That and he loves ties more than I do. Whenever I open the closet with ties on the door I have to watch out or a tie ends up around his neck before I know it.

 

[Dr Doran]

Darn! You should have been there Saturday. I bought all the good stuff then.
That is the book I was thinking of then. Those ties were really expensive but she gave my son a tie for free. Cutness has its priviledges. That and he loves ties more than I do. Whenever I open the closet with ties on the door I have to watch out or a tie ends up around his neck before I know it.

She had no price tags or firm prices on anything except the book, and that just makes me uncomfortable. Very nice, wonderful lady, though.

 

[jamespowers]

She had no price tags or firm prices on anything except the book, and that just makes me uncomfortable. Very nice, wonderful lady, though.

I know what you mean. I tend to shy away from that kind of experience. On the other hand, the woman with a huge tub of scarves had a bunch of cool 30's ties mixed in that didn't last very long after my friend and I found it.
Less than $5 apiece and a cools silk scarf for $3. :eusa_clap

 

[Feraud]

Here are three wool and a painted rayon.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Very cool! Thanks for posting the tags, Feraud. I like reading them, and seeing the cute armadillo I mean burro.

 

[Dr Doran]

Stupid Question

I have some 30s ties with frayed ends like that, and not to sound stupid, but are they supposed to be that way or should they be fixed? I have worn them frayed and thought it looked cool, but was never sure.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Doran: The ends are frayed on a handwoven, not a stupid question at all.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

For my first scan ever, I present one of my Superba Cravats.

 

[BegintheBeguine]