Your most hideous vintage tie.

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Here's your opportunity to display the most wretched, disgusting, heinous, and/or repulsive to look at tie in your collection.
I stopped at a local thrift shop as I was passing by today,(of course) and I think I found a most heinous tie. Possibly the most heinous non-wearable tie ever.
I bought it because it is vintage, (1930s?) and as such a rather rare find in these parts.
So here goes,...try and top this.
Notice the awful red-orange background cleverly juxtaposed with the oddly colored blue-gray and orange horse heads.

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Here's a close up of one of the surreal horse heads. Truly heinous.

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All I want to know is,...who designed this?,...and just what exactly were they trying to convey with their art?

 

[Vintage Betty]

Apparently, Satan also has time to design a fashion line of ties. Just look at those eyes! lol

Vintage Betty

 

[Benny Holiday]

My taste is impeccable. I don't have one. lol

Seriously though, there was a time when I used to buy any 1940's tie simply because of its vintage, but that was some time ago. I'm a lot more critcial (discerning?) and careful with my dough these days!

That horse tie is pretty rancid, Major!

 

[imoldfashioned]

"Eek, those eyes!" is right Vintage Betty!

(rubs her hands together in anticipation) This should be a really good thread!

 

[Vintage Betty]

Satan is WATCHING you

Do NOT turn away from the tie....

VB

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

(rubs her hands together in anticipation) This should be a really good thread!

My thoughts exactly!
Maybe it should be a contest?

 

[Vintage Betty]

The person who wins gets to burn that tie?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Apparently, Satan also has time to design a fashion line of ties. Just look at those eyes! lol

Vintage Betty

Leaving the background color to represent the eyes was a stroke of artistic genius! Maybe this was an early surrealist tie, designed by someone like Max Ernst?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

The person who wins gets to burn that tie?

Yes, please!

 

[imoldfashioned]

All I want to know is,...who designed this?,...and just what exactly were they trying to convey with their art?

Maybe the designer had visions of some Damon Runyonesque character going to try to talk Big Eddie out of collecting the 20 large he's owed from a lousy bet the guy with the tie made at the racetrack. The poor sap designer is thinkin' that maybe the demonic horses on his tie will prove intimidating to Big Eddie.

He'd be wrong, of course.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Quite a few rotten ties have come through my collection. I mostly gave them away when i sold suits! lol lol

I only buy ties from thrift/charity stores, so they're so cheap that if it's pre-1955 vintage, i buy it!

bk

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Quite a few rotten ties have come through my collection. I mostly gave them away when i sold suits! lol lol

I only buy ties from thrift/charity stores, so they're so cheap that if it's pre-1955 vintage, i buy it!

bk

I just automatically buy them if they are old and unlined. Unless they are completely trashed. Vintage ties are a rare commodity in these parts.
I could very well be in possession of the only extant example of this hideous tie!

 

[Vintage Betty]

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I could very well be in possession of the only extant example of this hideous tie!

Please PLEASE let it be so....answer my prayers....

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Don't burn it, send it to me!

 

[Vintage Betty]

And YOU will promise to burn it?

 

[CharlieH.]

I wonder if Mario Puzo owned it once....

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

And YOU will promise to burn it?

The lucky contestant that wins and gets to burn it, must first wear it for a full day,...in public.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

I like it. The horse has a sweet face.

 

[J.S.Udontknowme]

I like it too. [huh]

 

[scotrace]

Quite a few rotten ties have come through my collection. I mostly gave them away when i sold suits! lol lol